Robida came away with a ….
Robida came away with a pair of thirds on Thursday, notching times of 11.93 seconds and 24.57 seconds in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes respectively. The 4x400-meter relay of Kleparski, Hopperdietzel, Roth and Lucas Baumann also took third in their event, coming in with a final time of 3:57.79.
Also ending with top-five finishes for the Hornets were Kleparski in the high jump Baumann in the 400-meter dash, Ivan Haemer in the shot put, where he posted a new personal best of 40 feet, three-and-a-half inches to take fifth.
The girls team had five first place finishes of their own on Thursday.
Seniors Willow Oehmichen and Hayden Willner continued their impressive starts in the pole vault and hurdles respectively. Oehmichen claimed first in the pole vault by clearing a height of 10 feet, six inches. Meanwhile, Willner took first in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.11 seconds and second in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 51.44 seconds.
Daelyn Rieck collected two throwing event wins for Colby, putting up personal bests in the shot put and discus. The freshman recorded her longest toss of the year in the shot with a distance of 34 feet, five-and-a-half inches, breaking her previous season high mark by nine inches. The improvement in the discus was even more pronounced, with her winning distance of 105 feet, seven inches in the discus far exceeding the 86 feet, four inches she had reached in a winning effort in Medford two weeks prior.
Also picking up a win for the Hornets on Thursday was Pearl Feiten in the 800-meter run. The sophomore put up a new personal best of 2:42.59 to defeat Pepin’s Finley Noll by two seconds.
The Colby girls also added two second place finishes and a pair of fourths in their long distance events. Casey Reynolds took second in the 1600-meter run with a time of 6:15.13, a personal best, and teammate Annamarie Schmitt finished fourth with a time of 6:27.60, also a PR. Meanwhile, MaKenna Herrmann earned second in the 3200-meter run with a time of 13:05.62 and Reagan Schraufnagel’s time of 14:09.71 gave her fourth.
The girls’ two relay teams took second and third in Augusta, with the 4x400-meter relay of Feiten, Schmitt, Herrmann and Oehmichen taking third with a time of 4:50.93 and the 4x800-meter relay team of Feiten, Schraufnagel, Schmitt and Reynolds placed second with a time of 11:00.66.
Other top-five finishes included a fourth place performance from Tori Underwood in the long jump and fifth place finish from Oehmichen in the 100-meter dash.
