Lady Hounds third at Timm Lamb Relays

FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds captured third place in the A Division at the annual Timm Lamb Pen City Relays on a breezy Tuesday night at Richmond Stadium in Fort Madison.
The Hounds finished with 95 points behind Mt. Pleasant’s 126 and winner Washington’s 151. Central Lee finished 5th in Class B with 72 points.
Junior Avery Rump won the 3000-meter run going away with an 11:06.68 against some pretty stiff westerly winds. She led the pack, including perennial rival and friend Iris Dahl from Washington, by more than a minute. Dahl won the 1500 with a 5:16.25, two spots in front of the Hounds' Addison Rump at 5:24.19.
Avery Rump also ran the 800 leg of the champion Distance Medley team with Lillian Gelsthorpe (200), Mara Smith (200), Esther Gnann (400) at 4:42.22 beating Mt. Pleasant by four seconds.
“The wind really does a number on everyone. That was atrocious,” she said. “But it’s good to run in meets like this. It’s good training and you need to know how to run in all the elements, because you don’t know what the weather will be like at district or state meets,” Rump said.
“I’m feeling pretty good, especially considering a lot of the meets we’ve been to have been smaller without many big schools and lots of runners.”

To qualify for Drake this month, Rump will need to get that time down to 10:14, which could be doable, she said, in calmer weather.
“I know it has to be fast. Well under 11. I’ve been under 11 once this year so, honestly, I feel pretty good about where I am,” she said.
The Lady Hounds' 4x800 team of McKayla Schinstock, Smith, Jordyn Marshall, and Addison Rump also captured first with a 10:28.80, a full 24 seconds ahead of the pack.
In the field events, senior Brylie Lorence took 3rd in the shot with a 41’4.75” and fourth in the discuss with a spin of 104’1”.
Other top five finishes for the Lady Hounds included Olivia Buckner in the 100 at 13.35; Smith took 4th in the 200 with a 28.20 just .01 out of the top three; Schinstock had a nice finish in the 800 meters with a 2:32.41 and a 5th-place spot in the open 400 at 1:06.00. Addison Rump claimed 3rd in the 1500 at 5:24.18 and Jordyn Marshall was 5th at 5:31.89; the 4x400 of Alaina Schwerin, Avery Rump, Smith, and Esther Gnann captured 4th. And the shuttle hurdle team of Jordyn Grisham, Alexa Walz, Schwerin, and Lyla Smith finished 5th at 1:15.64.
For Central Lee, Kamryn Cox had the top finish for the Hawks, winning the 400-meter hurdles at 1:19.65. Macy Anderson captured 2nd in the 3000-meter run with a 13:07.92. She also had a 3rd in the 1500-meter run at 5:59.16 followed by Afton Maynes in 4th at 6:34.73. Allison Gruntmeir captured 3rd in the 100-meter hurdles at 18.11.
The 4x200 team of Ava Washburn, Cox, Kaylie Peterson, and Gruntmeir captured 5th in the B Division with a 2:07.65. The Shuttle hurdle squad of Julia Fraise, Cox, Washburn, and Gruntmeir took 4th with a 1:20.69. Kylie Fortune and Gruntmeir finished 3rd in the high jump clearing 4’6”.