MONTICELLO

Mid-Prairie sophomore Danielle Hostetler and senior Sydney Yoder put on a show.

As cheers from the stands at Monticello High School’s Dean Nelson Field got louder, Hostetler and Yoder charged ahead of the rest of the field in the girls 1500-meter run in the River Valley Conference championship meet Thursday night.

Track athletes assembled in the infield at Monticello’s track turned around and paid attention when they heard what was happening.

For the Golden Hawks, it was simply another race day for two runners who have swept distance races in the spring and cross country runs in the fall.

Hostetler and Yoder finished one-two in the event, producing a special moment on a night that featured a one-two finish for the Golden Hawks in the team competition. Mid-Prairie’s girls won the conference title in dominant fashion, scoring 149 points and beating runner-up Tipton by 62 points.

Mid-Prairie’s boys placed second with 91.50 points, beating out Cascade by nine points and trailing conference champion Tipton by 13.5 points.

Four Golden Hawks won two individual medals apiece in the meet, including two gold medals by Hostetler (wins in the 1500 and 800). Wheelchair racer Jayden Stafford won three gold medals. Yoder, Cain Brown and Thaddeus Shetler also won two medals.

Another one-two Mid-Prairie sweep came in the girls 3,000 meter run. Yoder, a starter on the Golden Hawks state championship cross country team, won the 3,000 with a time of 10:56.94, and she was followed two seconds later by sophomore teammate Abby Fleming.

Mitzi Evans, a senior who was a starter on the state championship cross country team and a top-four individual finisher in three events at last year’s state meet, cruised to a win in the girls 200 with a time of 25.52 seconds. It was the second fastest time in the 200 in Class 2A this year and the seventh fastest, all Iowa classes.

Mid-Prairie junior Cain Brown, who won the River Valley indoor high jump title in March, added the outdoor high jump title to his resume with a leap of 6 feet, 3 inches. He also had a third-place finish in the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.58 seconds.

Thaddeus Shetler, a senior, won the 3200 run by nearly two seconds ahead of Tipton’s Clay Bohlmann and finished runner-up to Bohlmann in the 1600 with a time of 4:37.27. Shetler won the 3200 with a time of 9:46.83.

Stafford, a Golden Hawks freshman, won three gold medals with unopposed victories in the 101-, 201- and 401-meter races.