Wolverine boys move five events on from State Qualifying Meet



The South O’Brien boys track and field team qualified five events for this week’s State Track and Field Meet. This was accomplished at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet hosted by North Union and conducted May 9 at Armstrong.
Winning the shuttle hurdle relay were the team of Brennan Billick, Brody Van Beek, Cole Cox and Willie Conley. Two members of that group also excelled in the individual hurdles events with Billick capturing the 110 meter hurdles and Conley taking the 400 meter hurdles.
Conley was a runner-up in the high jump but his leap of 6’ 1” was high enough to qualify for State. Similarly, the 4×100 relay finished third but was able to qualify on time. Heading to State in that relay are Damian Villarreal, Caden Wittrock, Cole Cox and Cole Tjossem.
The shuttle hurdle preliminaries are Thursday afternoon at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. On Friday afternoon is the high jump and the 110 meter hurdles prelims. The Friday evening schedule features the 4×100 prelims and 400 meter hurdles final. Relay finals arre scheduled for Saturday.

Placing second at the Qualifying Meet was the distance medley relay with Tjossem, Wittrock, Brett Evans and Conley. Tjossem was third in the 100 meters with Villarreal finnishing in a fourth-place tie. Villarreal was also fourth in the long jump as was Josh Gnade in the shot put.
As a team, South O’Brien was fourth at the Qualifying Meet with 90.5 points. MMCRU was the meet winner with a total of 133 points, followed by Sibley-Ocheyedan and Alta-Aurelia.
Team Scores
MMCRU 133, Sibley-Ocheyedan 102, Alta-Aurelia 91, South O’Brien 90.5, George-Little Rock 71, Bishop Garrigan 68, Newell-Fonda 37, North Union 31, HMS 30, GTRA 27.5, Harris-Lake Park 24, West Bend-Mallard 18, Storm Lake St. Mary’s 6.
South O’Brien Results
High Jump: Willie Conley, 2nd, 6’ 1”; Brody Van Beek, 5th, 5’ 6”.
Long Jump: Damian Villarreal, 4th, 18’ 6-3/4”; Brennan Billick, 8th, 17’ 7-1/4”.
Shot Put: Josh Gnade, 4th, 44’ 11-1/4”; Jayven Miller, 14th, 37’ 10-3/4”.
Discus: Gnade, 11th, 108’ 3”; Miller, 12th, 104’ 10”.
100 Meter Dash: Cole Tjossem, 3rd, 11.72; Villarreal, 4th (tie), 11.99.
200 Meter Dash: Brett Evans, 7th, 24.60; Asa Flinders, 17th, 26.18.
400 Meter Dash: Corbin Warnke, 11th, 56.72; John Puhrmann, 17th, 1:01.65.
800 Meter Run: Gabe Moermond, 10th, 2:18.77; Kreber, 12th, 2:21.23.
1600 Meter Run: Trayton Cobb, 17th, 5:48.81; Ethan Schwarz, 19th, 5:55.66.
3200 Meter Run: Cobb, 5th, 11:50.57; Schwarz, 10th, 14:10.31.
110 Meter Hurdles: Billick, 1st, 16.00; Van Beek, 9th, 21.41.
400 Meter Hurdles: Conley, 1st, 56.04; Billick, 9th, 1:03.67.
4×100 Meter Relay: (Villarreal, Caden Wittrock, Cole Cox, Tjossem) 3rd, 45.91.
4×200 Meter Relay: (Evans, Flinders, Cox, Jordan Jenness) 8th, 1:42.95.
4×400 Meter Relay: (Moermond, Warnke, Cobb, Kreber) 10th, 4:05.80.
4×800 Meter Relay: (Kreber, Moermond, Austin Negus, Warnke) 6th, 9:59.32.
Sprint Medley Relay: (Tjossem, Wittrock, Evans, Van Beek) 6th, 1:44.13.
Distance Medley Relay: (Tjossem, Wittrock, Evans, Conley) 2nd, 3:47.23.
Shuttle Hurdle Relay: (Billick, Van Beek, Cox, Conley) 1st, 1:04.56