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Wildcats Sweep the Western Christian Invite

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Hull, Ia (Northwest Iowa Now) – Cherokee, Okoboji, and Sheldon competed at the Western Christian Invite in Hull on Monday.

Cherokee’s Blake Lovell took 1st in the Boys Shot Put with a toss of 54’9”.

Kylie Robinson of Sheldon took 1st in the Girls 3000m Run with a time of 12:52.95.

The Cherokee Boys 4x800m Relay team of Mizner-Fundermann, Scherbring, Leyva-Cedeno, and Stowater clocked 8:41.53 to take 1st.

Reinert, Valentin, Hyndman, and Woodall teamed up for a time of 4:35.4 to win the Girls 1600m Distance Medley Relay for the Braves.

Sheldon’s Boys 1600m Distance Medley Relay team of Kamstra, Jager, Brouwer, and Vermeer took 1st with a time of 3:47.13.

Jaxson Paulsrud of Cherokee took 1st in the Boys 400m Run with a time of 51.74 seconds.

Cherokee’s Payton Reinert won the 100m Hurdles, clocking 16.73 seconds.

The Braves took the top 2 spots in the 800m Run with Grace Woodall winning with a time of 2:34.33 and Kenda Smith 2nd at 2:35.5.

In the Boys 200m Dash, Owen Brouwer of Sheldon won at 23.16 seconds.

The Orabs picked up a win via Malakai Vermeer in the Boys 1600m Run with a time of 4:47.82.

Sheldon’s team of Brouwer, Keizer, Schaeffer, and Vermeer combined for a 1st place 4x400m Relay time of 3:38.13.

Team Scores

Girls

  1. West Lyon 128
  2. Cherokee 106
  3. Central Lyon 106
  4. Western Christian (Hl) 104
  5. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 58
  6. Sheldon 40
  7. Okoboji 39

Boys

  1. West Lyon 141.5
  2. Central Lyon 124.5
  3. Cherokee 99
  4. Sheldon 90
  5. Western Christian (Hl) 78
  6. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 40
  7. Okoboji 11

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