Perfect Performance
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AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME! South Hamilton’s Laura Sigmund (right) battles North Polk’s Dawn Gildersleeve for the lead during the final 100 meters the 1,500-meter run on Thursday at the Heart of Iowa Conference small-school division track meet in Jewell. Sigmund won the foot race down the stretch to claim her fourth gold medal of the meet.
JEWELL — Perfection. It's a word that isn't even in the vocabulary of most coaches. But Jim Klein added it to his repertoire on Thursday.
Faced with the daunting task of going head-to-head with a North Polk squad that features a bevy of the top sprinters in Class 2A, Klein's South Hamilton team did everything right — and then some — here at the Heart of Iowa Conference track meet.
The Hawks won eight gold medals and placed in the top three in all 19 events to claim their second straight HOIC small-school division championship, a feat that Klein didn't think was very realistic considering who his crew was up against.
"We're very surprised because North Polk has so many quality kids," Klein said after his team had racked up 200 points, which was 29 points better than the runner-up Comets.
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