It was a successful weekend for local athletes at the Drake Relays.  Tyson Vander Linden of Lynnville-Sully was second in the boys’ 400 meter hurdles and sixth in the 100 meters.  Kalen Walker of EBF was 15^th in the 100 and did not qualify for the finals.  Oskaloosa’s boys’ 4 by 400 meter relay team of Aaron Blom, Casey Hill, Brayden VanKampen and Carter Huyser finished sixth in that event, setting a school record.  That same foursome also came in sixth in the distance medley, again setting a school record…and breaking a record that had stood since 1936!  Individually, Oskaloosa’s Carter Huyser was fifth in the 400 meters.  In the boys’ discus, Blake Veenstra of Pella Christian placed 7^th, Kody Huisman of Pella was 8^th and Pella’s Nick DeJong was 9^th.    Payton Schauf of Sigourney was 13^th in the discus with Oskaloosa’s Casey Hill 20^th.  And Joe Simon of Grinnell was 4^th in the 800 meters.

Looking at the girls’ competition, Ottumwa’s Allison Bookin Nobisch was third in the 800 meters, and her twin sister Grace was 8^th in that race.  Allison also placed fifth in the 400 meters.  Summer Barthelman of Sigourney was fourth in the girls’ 400 meters and third in the 400 hurdles.  Pella’s Elsie Thoreson was sixth in the 400 hurdles.  In the girls’ high jump, Oskaloosa’s Emma Kelderman, Shelby Conger of Montezuma and Anne Guest of Ottumwa tied for 19^th with jumps of 5 feet even.  Ottumwa was third in the girls’ 4 by 800 relay, Pella finished 12^th in the girls’ 4 by 200 relay, and in the girls’ shot put Friday, Allison Van Gorp of Pella Christian was 18^th in the preliminaries and did not qualify for the finals.