A few immediate area athletes had some top-notch performances at the Drake Relays on Thursday.

In the Boys 800M Run Atlantic’s Craig Alan Becker took 2nd Place with a time of 1:56.51. That time was over 3 seconds faster than his qualifying time of 1:59.97 ran in Harlan earlier this season. Ames’ Aniey Akok won the race with a time of 1:56.01.

CAM had their first ever girls and boys qualifiers for the Drake Relays this year with Molly Venteicher in the Shot Put and Connor McKee in the 400M Hurdles. CAM has had athletes compete at the Drake Relays before but this is the first time they have had athletes that had to qualify based on previous performance.

Both Venteicher and McKee made the most of the opportunity. Venteicher finished with a 6th Place medal with a best toss of 38-7.00. McKee brought home an 8th Place medal with a time of 56.11, matching his best time of the season so far.

Medal winners from the area include:

Girls Discus: Kelsey Fields (Creston)- 4th 125-2
Girls 100M: Jaidyn Sellers (Panorama)- 5th 12.73
Boys 100M: Brayden Wollan (Underwood)- 7th 11.14
Girls 400M: Jaidyn Sellers (Panorama)- 6th 58.28
Boys 400M: Brayden Wollan (Underwood)- 1st 48.94
Discus: Layne Pryor (Woodbine)- 1st 185-0
Girls Shot Put: Zoe Rus (Underwood)- 5th 38-8.50, Molly Venteicher (CAM)- 6th 38-7.00, Kelsey Fields (Creston)- 2nd 41-05.00.
Girls Long Jump: Shay Sinnard (Carroll)- 1st 18-0.25
Boys 800M: Craig Alan Becker (Atlantic)- 2nd 1:56.51
Boys 400M Hurdles: Connor McKee (CAM)- 8th 56.11, Noah James (Treynor)- 6th 55.49, Sid Schaaf (Treynor)- 2nd 54.84
Girls 4x400M: Harlan (Kaia Bieker, Brecken Van Baale, Lilly Metzger, Liv Freund)- 8th 4:06.29, Panorama- (Gwen Steffen, Olivia Steffen, SHay Storesund, Jaidyn Sellers) 6th 4:05.38.
Boys 4x400M: Treynor (Todd Pedersen, Noah James, Devin Vorthmann, Sid Schaaf) 6th 3:26.92