WAVERLY — At Saturday's Liz Wuertz Invitational hosted by Wartburg College, the Central College track and field teams put their final seed marks in for the postseason.
There were no team scores kept.
Central put a combined six new individual entries in the national top 50 lists.
Emily McMartin (senior, Pella) was responsible for two of them. Her winning time of 57.98 seconds in the women's 400 meters has her sitting at No. 39. She was second in the 200-meter dash in 25.32 but after conversion she's the No. 27 qualifier.
Kale Hobart's (junior, Mason City) winning mark in the 60-meter hurdles of 8.15 seconds is up to No. 16 nationally.
Olivia Bohlen (senior, Belle Plaine) was runner-up in the women's 60-meter hurdles in 8.82 seconds but No. 17 nationally.
Karlee Warnke (junior, Primghar, South O'Brien HS) won the women's long jump with a mark of 18 feet, 3.75 inches. She's up to No. 31 nationally.
Peyton Steffen (senior, Marion) was second in the women's 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 15.74 seconds and is No. 29 nationally.
On Friday night at the Caged Eagle Open hosted by the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Central won the women's distance medley race in 11:48.70. After conversion,
Maddy Stevens (freshman, Grimes, Dallas Center-Grimes HS), Ava Parkins (junior, Monmouth, Ill., Burlington Notre Dame [Iowa] HS), Alivia Roerdink (junior, Tiffin, Ohio, Hopewell-Loudon HS) and Steffen's is No. 4 in Division III.
Next weekend is the American Rivers Conference Championships in Decorah. Action starts on Friday morning with the women's pentathlon and men's heptathlon.
Caged Eagle Open results
Distance medley relay – 1. Central, 11:48.70
Darren Young Classic results
Men's 60-meter hurdles [collegiate] – 1. Grant Miller, 8.31
Men's 60-meter hurdles [invitational] – 1. Kale Hobart, 8.15; 3. Gage Huyser, 8.15
Women's 60-meter hurdles [collegiate] – 2.
Olivia Bohlen, 8.82
Women's 200-meter dash – 2.
Emily McMartin, 25.32
Women's 400-meter dash – 1.
Emily McMartin, 57.98; 3.
Kennedy Petersen, 59.37
Women's 800-meter run – 2.
Peyton Steffen, 2:15.74
Women's long jump – 1.
Karlee Warnke, 18-3.75
Men's pole vault – 1. Kyle Rogers 15-3; 2. Kale Hobart, 13-11.25; 3. Gavin Smih, 13-11.25
Women's pole vault – 1.
Leah Howard, 10-6; 2.
Kylie Meyer, 10-0; 3.
Brooklyn Duncan, 9-6.25
Men's weight throw – 2. Alex Zarlatanes, 54-3.75
