Scoring 17 points at a boys’ state track & field meet, placing three events in the top six, and tying for fifteenth place is what the Greene County Rams accomplished Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. It’s been a while since that happened for the Rams on the boys’ side and head coach Chad Morton saw his two standout juniors perform well.

Carter Morton, son of the coach, placed sixth on Saturday in the 110 meter high hurdles final in Class 2A in 15.80 seconds. He entered State with the ninth fastest qualifying time and entered the finals as the number seven qualifier. Morton was third in the high jump on Friday at 6′ 4″. He just missed scoring another team point on Friday when he was ninth in the 400 meter low hurdles at :57.06, a career best, after entering the field of 24 with the seventeenth best qualifying time. Morton accounted for nine team points.

The other eight went to junior Colby Kafer, the state runner-up in the 2A long jump on Thursday with a personal record 22′ 6-1/2″. That was worth eight points for the team. The 4A classes of boys’ long jumpers at state combined for just five jumpers that topped 22 feet. Kafer’s distance would have easily won 3A and 1A and would have been second in 4A.

The Greene County girls did not score any points at the State meet. Their lone event Saturday was the sprint medley relay, where they finished twenty-third. The quartet of juniors Paige Heaning and Maddy Sigler, plus sophomores Makala Kafer and Brianna Osterson, ran 2:06.90.