The Pella boys and girls track teams swept their second home invitational and final regular season meet for several area teams Monday evening.
Pella Christian, Knoxville, and PCM boys and girls and the Norwalk boys were among the KNIA/KRLS area schools participating:
Boys Team Results:
1. Pella 175
2. Norwalk 158
3. Grinnell 92.5
4. Pella Christian 86
5. Oskaloosa 58.5
6. Newton 58
7. PCM 52
8. Knoxville 44
9. Pella White 5
Girls Team Results:
1. Pella 168
2. Oskaloosa 143
3. Grinnell 103
4. Newton 87
5. PCM 78
6. Pella Christian 56
7. Knoxville 41
8. Pella White 27
9. Colfax-Mingo 5
Kody Huisman of Pella highlighted the throwing ring, breaking the school discus record held previously by Tyson Wassenaar of 178′ 7.25″ (2016), and did so in impressive fashion, breaking the previous mark once and his own record twice, landing on 186′ 8″ in his final toss of the night. Huisman is two inches shy of Nick DeJong’s 2019 Shot Put record of 60-5, and currently has the furthest throws in Iowa in both competitions heading into the district meet, regardless of classification.
On Thursday, area track and field athletes will compete for the chance to qualify for state at the district meets; Pella and Knoxville return to the Tulip City and Pella High School for Class 3A, PCM and Pella Christian both travel to Class 2A West Marshall, while Norwalk heads to Waukee in 4A.