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The 2026 Pen City Relays brought several heavy hitters of the girls’ track scene to Fort Madison Tuesday, with Washington and Winfield-Mt. Union among them.

The Demons finished third overall in Class A with 107.5 team points. Washington’s individual championship came from Iris Dahl, who won the 800m with a time of 2:30.05, the 4x100m relay team of Jaslyn Villa, Jaedyn Moore, Leighton Salazar and Leighton Messinger, the 4x200m team of Villa, Lauren Drahota, Messinger and Moore, and the 4x400m team of Drahota, Messinger, Villa and Dahl. Second place finishers included Moore in the 100m, Dahl in the 400m, Emma Horak in the 1500m, and the 800m sprint medley team of Emma Lins, Messinger, Moore, and Drahota. The 1600m distance medley team of Lillyn Magdefrau, Salazar, Brynlee Flynn, and Horak finished third.

The Wolves finished seventh in Class B with 26 team points. Quin Smith was the lone individual champion for the Wolves, placing first in the long jump with a distance of 15’01.5″ and the high jump with a height of 5’05”. In the latter, Smith broke a 30-year-old school record, clearing the old record of 5’04”. Kaelyn Townsley finished second in the 100m hurdles.