One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk girls track team was as good as advertised at their home meet Thursday at Dwight G. Sattler Field in Wellman. The Golden Hawk girls won the overall team title with 152 points, beating second place Fairfield’s 109, grabbed seven event titles and rewrote a pair of school records in front of the home fans.

The Hawks started the night with a bang, winning the sprint medley in a school record time of 1:50.22 with a team of Madeline Schrader, Amara Jones, and Tabitha and Mitzi Evans. More records fell in the championship run for the 4×400 quartet of Schrader, Danielle Hostetler and the Evans’ with their new school record time of 4:10.84. This week Schrader and Jones talked with KCII about the races and atmosphere Thursday. “Our goal was to qualify it for Drake, so we were going to go out there and see what we could do. We hadn’t run with this specific team before so handoffs were a big focus. At the beginning of the meet we decided that we were going to give it our all, and if we didn’t qualify, we didn’t qualify, but that was all we could do.”

Schrader added, “I start it. So for me, it was only the second 100 that I have run this year and it was the first one that I have done out of blocks. So it was important for me to show that I could get out of blocks in a 100 and then put our team in a good spot.”

Jones continued, “I was the second 100, and this was the first 100 I have run this year just coming off of an injury. I was just going to push it as hard as I can and try to hold whatever spot Madeline got us in.”

Mid-Prairie had a 1-2 punch in a pair of events with Danielle Hostetler winning the 1500 in 4:41.71 and Sydney Yoder behind her as runner-up and Abby Fleming taking gold in the 3000 in 11:09.80 and Phoebe Shetler behind her. The Golden Hawks were a winner in the 4×100 with a team of Emma Lueck, Alyssa McDowell, and the Evans’ in 51.34, the 4×200 with Schrader, Colby Brown, Ella Groenewold and McDowell in 1:51.92. Individual gold went to Behla Schmidt in the 100 hurdles in 17.07 seconds and Mitzi Evans in the 800 in 2:19.48.