
Columbus Wildcat and Lone Tree Lion track and field would come away with the team championships Monday at the Wildcat Relays that Columbus hosted at Louisa-Muscatine High School in Letts.
The Wildcats won the boys’ team title with 188 points and finished 85 ahead of second-place Wilton, while Lone Tree’s 122 points were 24 more than the Wilton girls.
Columbus got another team crown thanks to Lamar Ceant winning twice individually. The sophomore was the champion of the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.83 seconds, and Ceant also won the 110-meter hurdles run in 15.22 seconds, with junior teammate Alexander Rees finishing second to him in both races.
Senior Ty Muniz also won twice for the Wildcats, crossing the finish line in four minutes 42 seconds for the title in the 1,600 meters and clocking in at 10:28 to win the 3,200.
Senior Riley Kaalberg was the 100-meter champion in 11.84 seconds, and he joined Rees and seniors Juan Chairez and Johnathan Miranda to run the winning time of 45.21 seconds in the 4-by-100-meter relay.
Freshman Victor Tovar and sophomores Cade Storm, Ryan Villa and Tyson Corneille won the 4-by-800-meters for Columbus in just under 8:59, while Ceant, Rees, Kaalberg and Miranda posted the top time of 1:01 in the shuttle hurdles.
Kaalberg finished second in the long jump, as did Storm in the 400 hurdles, Tovar in the open 800 and the Wildcats’ distance medley relay. Ceant was third in the long jump, as was Lando Garza in the open 400, fellow freshman Dante Orozco-Gutierrez in the 400 hurdles and sophomore Ellis Hills-Carrier in the high jump.
Columbus was also third in the sprint medley. Sophomore Brock Nebergall gave the Lone Tree boys a gold medal in the 800 meters with a time of 2:14, while the Lions would win silver in the 4-by-100 and 4-by-200.
The team victory for the Lone Tree girls was powered by a huge day for Ava Christofferson. The junior won the 100 meters in 13,48 seconds and the 200 in 27 seconds flat, and she would also leap 17 feet one-and-a-half inches to win the long jump.
Christofferson would join sophomore Addison McCullough and seniors Rylee Shield and Vivian Zaruba to win the 4-by-200 in 1:50, while Shield and Zaruba were joined by freshmen Addyson Eiben and Lindsay Baltazar for the winning time of 4:24 in the 4-by-400.
The team of senior Cate Sexton, junior Finley Jacque, sophomore Olivia Magruder and freshman Evelyn Mueller added a gold medal in the distance medley by posting a time of 5:18, while senior Hayden Yoder hit an even 100 feet in the discus throw to get the Lions another win.
Yoder was also second in the shot put, as was Zaruba in the 200 and Lone Tree’s 4-by-800 and sprint medley relays, while the Lions finished third in the 4-by-100.
Sophomore Bella Forbes got the Columbus girls a victory in the shot put with a top toss of 33 feet eight inches and was also second in the discus. The Wildcats would finish runner-up in the 4-by-100, while junior Naveiah Garza brought home bronze in the high jump.