Trojanettes win big races at home meet
ESSEX — It was well worth the wait for the Essex Trojanettes track team to have their home meet.
Essex won seven events as they took first at the Trojanettes Relays in their first home meet since 2012. The last two years were canceled because of inclement weather.
Essex won the Trojanette Relays with a score of 175, beating out Sidney. East Mills was third with 81 and stanton was fourth with 67.
The Trojanettes won three relay races and three individual events.
The final relay win came in the 4x100 when the team of Daiton Martin, Amber Ohnmacht, Bethany Johnson and Kym Graham won by nearly two seconds over Clarinda Academy to post a time of 56.26.
Essex scored another win in the 4x200 when Martin, Jescenia Mosley, Johnson and Ohnmacht took first with a time of 1:58.91, beating out Sidney by nearly three seconds.
The third relay win was in the distance medley as Shea Jensen, Ohnmacht, Graham and Devan Gray ran a time of 5:08.93 to win by six seconds over the Cowgirls.
Individually, Martin picked up another win in the 100-meter dash, running 13.64. The win was significant as it was her first over Sidney’s Lexy Larsen, who she held off at the finish line. Larsen has won several times over Martin this season.
Larsen avenged the loss by holding off Martin at the finish line in the 200-meter dash. Martin was two-hundredths of a second behind as she ran a 27.82.
Mosley had two wins, including the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.62. Mosley beat out Stanton hurdlers Ally Focht (19.14) and Lauren Stephens (19.72).
The other win for Mosley came in the long jump as she won with 14’1.75”.
Teammate Kelsi Leininger and Stanton’s Chelsea Weis were tied for second with 13’9.5”. Sarai Waddell of East Mills was fourth with 13’2.75” and Essex’s Jordan Nelson took fifth with 12’1.5”.
Keegan Nelson had the final individual win for Essex as she won in the shot put with a toss of 32’5”. East Mills’ Gracee Meyer was fourth with 28’4”.
The Viqueens had one win at the meet as they won the title in the shuttle hurdles as the team of Logan Wagg, Focht, Stephens and Weis ran a time of 1:16.54.
East Mills had two wins at the Essex meet, both coming courtesy of Waddell.
Waddell scored her first win in the high jump as she won with 5’.
The other win came in the 400-meter hurdles as she held off Leininger of Essex to run a time of 1:18.80.
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It was a big day for East Mills as they won five titles at the Trojan Relays.
East Mills took the team title with 161 points. Nishnabotna was second, while Stanton finished third (89 points) and Essex took sixth (32 points)
Three of those wins came in relay races, including the distance medley as Miguel Sanchez, Nick Perkins, Austin Edmunds and Noah Meyer ran 4:08.82 to win by four seconds.
The 4x200 team of Sanchez, Matt Glockel, Tony Volz and Nick Perkins also won, running a time of 1:45.48 and beating out Nishnabotna.
The 4x100 team had the third win as Ben Christensen, Perkins, Sanchez and Cavin Darnold ran 49.67, beating out Stanton’s team of Easton Blunt, Brady Johnson, David Sorensen and Chris Jones (51.65).
Individually, Alec Moorman got the win in the high jump for East Mills as he jumped 5’4”. Connor Hultman of Stanton was second with 5’2”.
Christensen won the 110-meter hurdles for East Mills as he held off teammate Dylan Schroeder (18.51) at the finish line to run 18.10.
Stanton meanwhile scored multiple wins at the Trojan Relays, including the 400-meter hurdles, which Hultman won by three seconds over Schroeder to run 1:04.18.
Alex Becthold scored two wins in the field events for Stanton, including the discus when he threw 141’5”.
The other win for Becthold was the shot put as he tossed 44’2.5”, beating out Glockel of East Mills, who had 40’4.5”.
Stanton’s lone relay win came in the shuttle hurdles when the team of Johnson, David Sorensen, Becthold and Hultman ran a time of 1:13.68.
Essex had one win at the meet as Cody McClintock took the title in the 800 with a time of 2:14.66.