Baxter: Nine top-three finishes propel Baxter girls to second at PCM

Apr. 15-MONROE - Camryn Russell won two individual events, the Bolts doubled up in four of them and the Baxter girls track and field team finished second at the Joel Grier Invitational on Tuesday. The Bolts scored 101 points in second. They trailed meet champion and host PCM (160) and the rest of the top five featured Knoxville (94), Montezuma (73) and North Polk (68). Advertisement Chariton (58), the PCM JV (11) and Twin Cedars finalized the eight-team field. "We are deeper than last year but need to continue to get stronger over the next month if we want to achieve some of our team goals," Baxter head girls track and field coach Josh Russell said. "It was good to see some girls move up in distances. One of those examples are the Krampe twins in the 400 and 400 hurdles." Callie Cross Russell won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.13 seconds and scored a win in the long jump with a leap of 15 feet, 7 1/2 inches. Anderegg was fifth in the long jump with a career-best leap of 14-0, and she placed sixth in the 100 hurdles in a career-best 18.32. Advertisement The other win for the Bolts came from Makayla True in the 3,000. She won the race in 12 minutes, 12.14 seconds and Zoey Gliem was third in 13:16.01. True (5:55.47) also was fifth in the 1,500. Callie Cross registered a career-best throw of 29-0 to place third in the shot put. Sydnee Hibbs (career-best 13.77) and Russell (13.79) were 4-5 in the 100, Avery Wonders (28.35) placed fourth in the 200 and Gwen Tichy (career-best 2:50.82) finished sixth in the 800. Kamdyn Krampe made her debut in the 400 hurdles and finished fourth in 1:24.86. But there was one set of hurdles missing on the track and the times cannot be posted to Bound. There also were timing issues throughout the meet. The events affected that were not auto timed were the sprint medley and 4x400 relays. Advertisement The Bolts' 4x400 relay team of Alyvia Burdess, Tichy, Russell and Wonders finished second in an unofficial time of 4:37. Kendall Brummel The distance medley relay team posted a season-best time of 5:03.53 to place second with Anderegg, Kamdyn Krampe, Kaylyn Krampe and Kendall Brummel. The 4x200 relay team of Burdess, Kaylyn Krampe, Piper Redman and Brummel finished third in a season-best 2:02.24. Kamdyn Krampe, Rossi Swihart, Kaylyn Krampe and Wonders also placed third in the shuttle hurdle relay in a season-best 1:19.86. "Alyvia Burdess had an outstanding meet with some of her best splits ever and stepped up to run in the 4x400 when we needed her to," Coach Russell said. Notes: Camryn Russell competed in the 100 hurdles at Harlan on Thursday and posted a career-best time of 15.72 seconds, which moves her into fourth in Class 1A. It's also inside the top 32 for Drake Relays qualifying at 29th.