Several PRs push Sigourney to fifth place at SICL meet

The Sigourney boys’ track team had several big finishes at the conference meet on May 1, many of which turned out as personal records. The Savages finished in fifth place when all the points were added up, coming just shy of fourth place.

    The best finish on the day for the team was in the 1600m run with Tommy Stout taking first place with a time of 4:56.23. Shortly behind him was Mason Moore, as he has been much of the season, this time taking third place with a time of 5:15.27. Moore followed that up with a runner-up finish in the 3200m run, clocking in at 11:29.36.

    The group of Carson Crawford, Kyle Weber, Tristan Bell and Stout combined for a time of 3:52.38 and took first place in the 1600m DMR. The Savages also finished in the top five in the 4x200m relay event, running a time of 1:40.28 and picking up four points. Another three top-five finishes came from the discus, high jump and shot put events.

    Payton Schauf had the best throw on the day at 133’-3.00”, which was a personal record. Another personal record came from Spencer Magill who got over the 5’-10.00” mark in the high jump, which was the second-best on the day. Crawford was unable to follow the trend, coming up short of reaching his personal record in the shot put but did take third at 41’-9.00”.

    “I feel like we exceeded our expectations and nearly set PR in everything,” Sigourney coach Jared Jensen said. “Everything we ran we did well in, which we didn’t expect for some of the events. A lot of kids stepped up.”

    Other results are as follows:

    100-meter dash: Rassir Higgenbotham took 12th (12.46), Dylan Sereg finished 19th (12.99)

    200-meter dash: Zeke Webb took 20th (26.27) *personal record, Greg Gott finished 21st (27.28)

    400-meter dash: James Moore took 13th (1:01.86), Cullen Smith finished 17th (1:06.32)

    800-meter run: Paul Montgomery took seventh (2:21.73), Trace Bell finished 14th (2:33.50)

    400-meter hurdles: Colton Schwab finished 10th (1:06.97) *personal record

    Discus: Hunter Schwab finished 23rd (71’-5.00”) *personal record

    Long Jump: Mac Conrad took 12th (17’-1.00”) *personal record, Trace Bell finished 16th (15’-7.00”) *personal record

    Shot Put: Mac Conrad finished 15th (36’-4.50”)

    4x100m relay: Sigourney finished sixth (47.77) *personal record

    4x400m relay: Sigourney finished eighth (3:59.31) *personal record

    4x800m relay: Sigourney finished sixth (10:14.64)

    440m shuttle hurdle relay: Sigourney finished eighth (1:19.71) *personal record

    800m sprint medley: Sigourney finished sixth (1:44.33) *personal record

    “Many of our younger guys had to learn things by themselves as they went along, since we don’t have many older guys. That bodes well for the entire athletic program when kids will compete hard,” Jensen said. “Everybody was primed and ready to roll. We wanted to finish in the top half and we knew there would be some good teams here.”

    The Savages had one last meet before Districts when they competed at Montezuma on May 7.