HCMS 7th Grade wins, 8th grade places third in the track meet

The Harlan Community Middle School Track boys did pretty well at the home track meet. The 7th grade boys dominated the other four teams to win the 7th grade side of the track meets. The 8th grade boys finished third behind Lewis Central and Glenwood. There were some very exciting finishes in a lot of the running events. After a few boring events there was a very close finish in the 1600 meter medley relay. Harlan was leading with about 800 meters to go and Matt Brace had the baton for Harlan. Glenwood’s team however caught Harlan and ended up beating Harlan by .01 seconds. Another very close race came in the 7th grade 800 meter run. A Creston guy lead the first 500 meters but all the sudden John Schwarte, one of Harlan’s top long distance runners, catches him and they are side by side until they come towards the turn towards the finish line. Schwarte pulls away and wins the race and another Harlan runner, Seth Lansman, finishes second. The most exciting race of the night was the 7th grade boys 4×400 relay. Harlan was behind by a bunch until Luke Musich got the baton and cut the margin to under 2 seconds behind Creston. The anchor, Jake Nutter, caught and passed the kid the anchor from Creston and won the race by less than half a second. These are the 8th grade results(I couldn’t get the 7th grade results because I couldn’t record them).

Shot Put: 1st place: Dustin Muell

Discus: 2nd place: Derek Schwartz

4th place: Muell

Long Jump: 1st place: Dylan Barrett

6th place: John Keane

4×800 relay: 4th place: (Brad Nelson, Kody Kline, Tommy Steward, Dale Kite)

7 Flight Hurdle relay: 2nd place: (Alex Markham, Schwartz, Joe Klein, Andrew McLaughlin)

100 meters: 3rd place: Barrett

1600 meter medley: 2nd place: (McLaughlin, Adam Cave, Klein, Matt Brace)

4×200 relay: 4th: Matt Mages, Muell, Taylor Assman, Michael Blackman)

7 Fl. Hurdles: 2nd: Mills

4th: McLaughlin

200 Meter dash: 3rd: Schwartz

800 Medley: 4th: (Mages, Assman, Muell, Wyzenski)

200 Meter Hurdles: 1st: Barrett

4×100: 4th: (Markham, Assman, Wyzenski, Cave)

4×400: 2nd: (Klein, Schwartz, Brace, Barrett)

The photo above is of my brother running the 800 meter run.

-Ryan Henrich, 6th hour news correspondant signing off