Dakota Kaufman and Shelby Koons complete the handoff between the second and third legs of the 4x100 relay. The group finished in 53.29.

The Hillsboro boys ran into a strong Garden Plain team and settled for second place in the 11-team field at the Hesston Invita­tional Thursday.

The Trojans girls finished eighth in a 10-team field.

For the boys, Hillsboro accumulated 84 points while the Owls from Garden Plain scored 122.

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The four teams from Marion County dominated the 11-team Marion Invitational April 29, finishing 1-2-3-4, with fourth-place Centre 33 strokes better than fifth-place Sacred Heart.

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Coach Mike Gottsch inked six players besides American Samoa-born cousins Buddy Tuamasaga (6-4, 325 pounds) and Rodney Finau (6-2, 325 pounds) in April. But adding 650 pounds of muscle to the defensive line is some big news for the Bluejays.

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Zac Rembolt and Justin Ball make their move around the pack at the beginning of the 800. Amber Wiens heads down the home stretch during her all-conference honorable mention 1,500 meter run. Andrew Ottoson/Free Press

The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championship meet record in the women’s 4x800 relay wasn’t broken at Friends University Friday.

It was demolished.

The dynamite foursome of Liz Kleinsasser, Amber Wiens, Shelby Miller and Heidi Schmidt blew the old record away, stopping the clock at 9:26.79—26 full seconds earlier than the previous meet record of 9:53.

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