Central College’s distance medley relay, which qualified in 9 minutes, 50.50 seconds (a school record) at the Wartburg Final Qualifier on March 2, were seeded second for nationals.
Noah Erickson, a senior from Mount Vernon, and the rest of the Dutch distance medley relay finished in 10:20.97 and in 12th place Friday at the Division III Indoor Track Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. Lynchburg won in 9:47.17, and Wartburg was second (9:49.22).
Lily Meester, a Wartburg junior and Mount Vernon grad, placed 11th in the shot put Saturday with a throw of 44 feet, 6 inches. Alexis Boykin of MIT won the event with a toss of 48 feet, 6.25 inches.
Cornell distance runner Isaac vanWestrienen placed 18th in the 5,000-meter run and 19th in the 3,000-meter run at the D3 Indoor Meet.
He was Cornell’s first indoor qualifier since 2019.
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Lux Hall of Lisbon, who wrestles with DC Elite, won first place at the AAU Super Peewee State Tournament on March 2 in Waterloo.
Lux won the 40-pound girls’ kindergarten division.
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