Dutch relay April 24, 2009

Two Dutch squads post season bests

DES MOINES—Five Central College relay teams competed in the preliminaries of the 100th Drake Relays track and field meet Friday, and the men’s 4 x 400 meter squad advanced to the college division final.  The men’s 4 x 400 relay squad of juniors Jordan Gegner (Martensdale, Martensdale-St. Marys HS), Matt Patrick (Dallas Center, Dallas Center-Grimes HS), Luke Bolander (Des Moines, East HS) and Alex Miller (Adel, Van Meter HS) advanced out of the preliminary rounds, winning its heat in a time of 3 minutes, 18.77 seconds. The finals for the college division will take place at 5:53 p.m. Saturday.

Two other Central relay teams managed to set season bests at Drake. In the women’s 4 x 100 meter relay freshman Caitlin Wilson (Oakland, Riverside HS), sophomore Kelsey Manecke (Pella), sophomore Emily Teas (Indianola) and sophomore Jill Ziskovsky (Dallas Center, Dallas Center-Grimes) ran in 50.21 seconds, nearly a second faster than any Dutch squad this spring. And in the women’s 4 x 400 meter relay, Ziskovsky, Teas, junior Rachelle Tipton (Newton) and sophomore Amanda Mosinski (Packwood, Pekin HS) knocked a full eight seconds off of Central’s best time of the season.

Also competing for Central were men’s 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 relay teams. The 4 x 100 meter team of junior Mitch Morris (Naples, Fla., Barron Collier HS), Patrick, freshman Kyle Wood (Newton) and freshman Trevor Veach (Grinnell) finished in 42.15 seconds, the second fastest of the season for Central. The 4 x 200 meter team of sophomore Connor Daily (Ottumwa), Wood, Chad Kraklio (sophomore, Durant) and Veach posted a 1:28.61.