The Mid-Prairie boys and girls track teams had a big night at the state qualifier meet Friday at Eddyville-Blakesburg. The Golden Hawk girls finished as team runners-up with their score of 142. Williamsburg won the meet with a score of 145. Qualifying for state for Mid-Prairie included Marie Hostetler and Mitzi Evans in the 800, Hostetler and Angelina Evans in the 1500, Hostetler in the 3000, the team of Amber Swart, Mitzi and Abbigail Evans and Maddie Edington in the 4×100, the 4×200 team of Swart, Cassidy Rourke, Edgington and Abbigail Evans, the 4×800 team of Angelina and Abbigail Evans, Moriah Brase and Kate Cavanagh, the sprint medley team of Edington, Cassidy Rourke, Swart and Mitzi Evans, Tori Boyse in the discus and the distance medley team of Abbigail Evans, Rourke, Swart and Hostetler.
On the boys side the Golden Hawks finished in seventh place as a team. The Hawks qualified for state in the 4×100 with Clarke Latcham, Caleb Thomas, Grant Boyse and Elmir Ganibegovic, the 4×200 team of Latcham, Quinn Schmidt, Boyse and Ganibegovic, the 4×800 team of Schmidt, Brad Tornow, Miles Burrows and Justin Schwartz, Jack Baker in the discus, and the sprint medley team of Latcham, Schmidt, Ganibegovic and Boyse. The state track and field meet begins on Thursday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.