Cards claim championship by a landslide at home meet

It was a night the Garner-Hayfield/Ventura boys track team will always remember.  The Cardinals won their home meet by a landslide.  GHV captured the title with 137 points.  West Fork was 49 points behind with 88 points.  Lake Mills was third in the 12-team meet with 82 points.

GHV had two relays place first.  The 4x200 team of Kevin Boehnke, Connor Shaw, David Cook and JJ Loschen won with a time of 1:36.  Also winning was the shuttle hurdle relay with a time of 1:02.67.  The relay consisted of Shaw, Cook, Loschen and Sam Cataldo.

The Cardinals had a one-two finish in the 400 meter hurdles.  Cataldo won the event in 59.89 and Shaw was second in 1:00.18.  Cataldo also had success in the 110 meter hurdles, winning the race in 16.23.

Ezra Marroquin also contributed to the team score with a first place finish in the 400 meter dash, 52.06.  He was second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.08.

Logan Dalbeck and Derek Brown finished in second and third respectively in the 1600 meter run.  Dalbeck’s time was 4:46.57 and Brown ran a 4:52.60.

Other place winners included:

•200 meter dash: Loschen, third, 24.39

•800 meter run: Brown, third, 2:13.44

•3200 meter run: Ray Cataldo, fifth, 10:40.26

•High jump: Boehnke, fourth, 5’6”

•Long jump: Marroquin, fourth, 18’09”

•4x100 relay: Marroquin, Shaw, Cook, Boehnke, third, 46.78

•4x400 meter relay: Nich Mehmen, Cook, Harley Forry, Sam Cataldo, third, 3:43.06

•Distance medley: Forry, Corey Hauptman, Mehmen, Dalbeck, second, 3:57.76