Charger girls' track coach Colin Shawgo had an opportunity to take his "cinderwomen" to his hometown yesterday and participate in the Nevada Girls' Invitational. His charges did not disappoint, as they competed well against larger schools and finished fourth out of nine schools with 103.5 points, only six points out of second place. North Polk won the event with 145 points.

Several Chargers claimed first place medals, including Mady McDermott took golds in both the shot and discus, Sara Schmeling who won the long jump, and Kate Crawford who took the 3000 meter run. Crawford also picked up up a silver in the 1500 meter run.

Shawgo was happy with his team's efforts. " We used tonight as a tune up for our state qualifying meet at Van Meter this Thursday. Once again we had some pretty good performances from the girls, and I think that it showed that they are primed and ready to go. For a meet that had a lot of bigger schools, we stayed tough and finished right with them in the team scoring."

The team will participate in the state qualifier at Van Meter on Thursday, with the first events to begin at 4 PM.

ACGC Results

Shot put 1st: Mady McDermott, 37'1.5" 400 m relay 6th: Reagan Rumelhart, Sara

3rd: Madalyn Kelsey, 32'10.5" Schmeling, Mady Smith, Savana Fuller, 55.37

Discus 1sr: Mady McDermott, 111'5.5" 800 m relay 6th: Reagan Rumelhart, Sara

8th: Madalyn Kelsey, 87'1" Schmeling, Mady Smith, Savana Fuller, 2:00.42

High jump No entries 1600 m relay 5th: Emma Swanson, Lauryn

Embleton, Audrey Stowe, Sophie Danker, 4:48.83

Long jump 1st: Sara Schmeling, 16'6.5"

DNP: Belle Policky, 11'4" 3200 m relay 3rd: Audrey Stowe, Lauryn

Embleton, Emma Swanson, Kate Crawford, 10:45

100 m dash DNP: Olivia Laabs, 14.87

DNP: Olivia Van Meter, 16.27 800 medley 8th: Belle Policky, Kylie Young,

Emma Vogl, Reagan Rumelhart, 2:13.25

200 m dash DNP: Emma Vogel, 32.32

DNP: Belle Policky, 32.73 1600 medley relay 3rd: Mady Smith, Savana

Fuller, Sara Schmeling, Audrey Stowe, 4:44.11

400 m dash No entries

400 shuttle hurdle 5th: Jenna Stringer, Kennedy

800 m run 3rd: Kate Crawford, 2:32.19 Young, Reese Coffman, Charlotte, Colling, 1:23.76

7th: Rylee Sloss, 2:44.81

1500 m run 2nd: Kate Crawford, 5:05.70

7th: Lauryn Embleton, 5:31.90

3000 m run 1st: Kate Crawford, 10:57.76

3rd: Emma Swanson, 11:27.79

100 m hurdles 4th: Mady Smith, 17.19

DNP: Jenna Stringer, 20.28

400 m hurdles DNP: Keely Vasey, 1:29.34

Team Scores

North Polk 145

Ankeny Cent 109

Gilbert 108

ACGC 103.5

Nevada 88

Bon-Farrar 64.5

So Hamilton 56

Saydel 38

Adel-Desoto-Min 12