Mount Vernon ran a blazing fast 4×800, but finished second in 7 minutes, 54.16 seconds.

Pella won the 3A relay in 7:53.08.

The foursome of Seamus O’Connor, Chasen Caskey, Grady Olberding and Dawson Scheil helped score most of the 13 team points that placed Mount Vernon in 17th in 3A last weekend at the State Meet in Des Moines.

The distance medley of Colin Bentley, Logan Stanerson, Holden Hlavacek, and Olberding finished in sixth, and Olberding was seventh in the 1,600.

Class 3A boys

Team scores (top 5) – 1. Newton 60; 2. Pella 56; 3. (tie) Clear Creek Amana 55, Gilbert 55; 5. Western Dubuque 53.  17. (tie) Mount Vernon 13.

Mount Vernon

800 – 10. Dawson Scheil 1:57.46.

1,600 – 7. Grady Olberding 4:22.16; 11. Chasen Caskey 4:27.77.

High jump – 16. Erik Lamb 5-11.

Distance medley – 6. Colin Bentley, Logan Stanerson, Holden Hlavacek, Grady Olberding 3:33.18.

4×400 – (prelim) 20. Holden Hlavacek, Dawson Scheil, Erik Lamb, Jaks Lee 3:29.70.

4×800 – 2. Seamus O’Connor, Chasen Caskey, Grady Olberding, Dawson Scheil 7:54.16.

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The Lisbon girls’ track team got all their points at state from Emersyn Reiter and Mykala Luzum-Selmon, who both jumped 5 foot in the high jump to tie for fifth place.

Lisbon finished tied for 36th in 1A.

Class 1A girls

Team scores (top 5) – 1. Council Bluffs St. Albert 46; 2. Saint Ansgar 40; 3. (tie) Fort Dodge St. Edmond 36, Nashua-Plainfield 36; 5. (tie) HLV/TC 31, Maquoketa Valley 31, Madrid 31. 36. (tie) Lisbon 6.

Lisbon

100 hurdles – (prelims) 13. Brynn Epperly 16.77.

High jump – 5. Emersyn Reiter 5-0; 5. Mykala Luzum-Selmon 5-0.

Sprint medley – 18. Paige Epperly, Brynnley Patterson, Brynn Epperly, Addie Clark 1:55.92.

4×200 – 12. Brynn Epperly, Brynnley Patterson, Quinn Roos, Addie Clark 1:49.49.