Prior to Easter weekend, student-athletes on the Belle and Vienna High School track teams put up solid times and marks during meets at St. James, Russellville, Linn and Eugene.

Last Tuesday during the St. James open track meet, Vienna’s Eagles and Lady Eagles posted top-10 finishes in several events.

Opening the meet at St. James, the Vienna Lady Eagle 4x800-meter relay team placed second in 12:04.39 while their Eagle counterparts placed fourth in a time of 9:22.17.

Madeleine Novak placed 10th in the girls 100m hurdles in a time of 23.75.

Andrea Novak posted a sixth-place time of 14.89 in the girls 100m dash.

Vienna’s Lady Eagles won the 4x200m relay in 2:00.93 while the Eagles placed fourth in the same event with a time of 1:45.44.

Morgan Murphy placed seventh for Vienna in the girls 1600m run with a time of 8:26.10.

Duncan Wilkinson won the boys 1600m run for the Eagles in a time of 4:57.88.

Eagle teammates Brayden Ewers (4th, 5:15.57) and Cooper Auten (6th, 5:29.49) also placed in the top six of the boys 1600m run.

Sprinting to top-five times in the 4x100m relay were the Lady Eagles with a fourth-place time of 58.41 and the Eagles in a fifth-place time of 49.98.

Claudia Wieberg won the girls high jump for the Lady Eagles clearing 1.40m. Madison Weeks also cleared 1.40m but finished third based on misses at previous heights.

Julianna Davis also finished sixth clearing 1.35m.

Andrea Novak posted a fifth-place mark of 4.36m in the girls long jump.

Timothy Shockley led the Vienna throwers in the boys shot put with a sixth-place mark of 9.98m.

Eli Crum also posted a top-10 mark with a 10th-place put of 9.38m in the event.

Crum also placed seventh in the boys discus with a throw of 28.29m.

Saturday, April 1 in Russellville, Belle’s Lady Tigers and Tigers placed in several events.

Freshmen Aubrey Rehmert won the girls 100m dash in a time of 14.17.

Senior Hali Naber also sprinted her way to gold winning the girls 200m dash in a time of 29.18.

Naber also took sixth in the girls 400m dash with a time of 1:10.60.

Tajel McDaniel took the final scoring spot in the girls 800m run in an eighth-place time of 3:04.86.

In the girls 1600m run, McDaniel also scored team points for Belle with a sixth-place time of 6:28.92.

Olivia Koch took 15th place in the girls 100m hurdles in a time of 23.32.

Adding to her top-six finishes earlier in the meet, Naber also took fourth place in the girls high jump clearing 1.37m.

Rehmert added a seventh-place leap of 4.05m in the girls long jump to her win in the 100m dash.

She also threw her way to a sixth place finish in the discus (27.52m) and a fourth-place mark in the javelin (30.52m).

Timothy Schmid sprinted to a 13th-place time of 13.72 in the boys 100m dash for Belle.

Jon Valley posted a 12th-place time of 1:01.43 in the boys 400m dash.

Barrett Finnegan led the Tigers in boys 800m run placing 15th in 2:39.97. Adrien Hoehne also took 18th in the 1600m run in 6:25.98.

Sprinting to a fourth-place time of 51.92 in the boys 4x100m relay was the Tiger foursome of Lukas Smith, Brett Gromowski, Connor Weigel and Valley.

Smith also cleared 1.52m in the boys high jump to finish tied for sixth place with Dixon’s Parker Doyle.

Weigel grabbed the last scoring spot in the boys triple jump with an eighth-place leap of 9.77m.

Gromowski scored team points for Belle with a sixth-place mark of 29.21m in the boys discus.

Myles Butler posted his best finish at Russellville with a second-place mark of 38.86m in the boys javelin.

Belle’s Lady Tigers placed sixth out of 20 teams with 42 team points while the Tigers placed 14th as a team with 19.5 points.

Closing out the month of March at Linn, both Belle and Vienna track athletes scored team points in several events.

Vienna’s Riley Rosentreter scored the lone event win for the black and gold clearing 2.74m in the girls pole vault at Linn.

Rehmert won Belle’s lone event with a winning toss of 35.36m in the girls javelin beating the field by over five meters.

Posting the highest finish among Vienna relay teams was the Lady Eagle 4x200m quartet of Tori Schulte, Andrea Novak, Jaedyn Schell and Aubrey Reeves with a fourth-place time of 2:00.28.

Sprinting to a ninth-place time of 57.86 was the Lady Tiger 4x100m relay team of Madisun Bailey, Olivia Koch, Rehmert and Naber.

Leading the Tiger relay teams was the 4x800m foursome of Kaegan Kinsey, Finnegan, Hoehne and Valley with a 10th-place time of 11:14.52.

Vienna’s 4x800m relay team of Jackson Kilmer, Brayden Ewers, Auten and Wilkinson led the Eagle squads with a fifth-place time of 9:52.99 in that race.

Julianna Davis posted a pair of 10th-place finishes clearing 2.13m in the girls pole vault in addition to a leap of 8.85m in the girls triple jump.

Both BHS and VHS will compete tomorrow (Thursday) in Cuba.