Local Cross Country teams run at Redfield meet

NORTH CENTRAL

The North Central cross country team attended an invitational near Redfield on August 31.

There were two NC varsity girls in their race — Grace Roth 46th in 23:30.83 and Kassandra Abbas 53rd in 24:02.72.

Ella Boekelheide of Northwestern won the girls event in 18:20.10, while the boys varsity winner would be Nicholas Schlachter of Potter County in 16: 59.60.

The NC boys did manage seventh of 16 teams in the team standings that were won by Dupree. One reason would be Anthony Miller 28th in 19:02.06 and Drew Arbach was next for NC in 32nd at 19:12.68. Their next scorer was Avery Wells who was 35th in 19:23.58. And Theo Haerter was 49th in 20:34.09.

And North Central's girls and boys were both fifth in their respective JV team standings.

For the NC girls Mikaela Malsom placed 11th in 13:40.53. Lily Roth was 33rd in 15:04.75 followed by Sophie Kroll who was 48th in 16.19.93. In the boys JV outcome Keegan Miller was 13th in 11:59.51 and Jason Arbach was 17th in 12:09.83. And Aaron Ingerson was next in 25th at 12:24.88. And don't forget Noah Ingerson who was 36th in 12:51.20.

The Thunder had one middle-school boy that day and he was Hayden Sprague who was clocked at 8:26.03. But there were three Thunder middle-school girls, led by Katherina Malsom 26th in 8:53.20. Gwen Pruskowski was 58th in 10:18.87 followed by Unity Wolmarans 63rd in 10:33.48.

The NC cross country was scheduled to run today, Sept. 6 in Hoven at the Potter County Invitational. They will run Saturday in Ipswich.

IPSWICH

Ipswich attended a high school cross country invite near Redfield last August 31.

Senior Xavier Kadlec entered the boys varsity event and finished 16th in 8:43.12. There were two varsity girls from IHS and they were Madisyn Gellhaus in 29th at 21:52.72 and Gracyn Kadlec 35th in 11:15.30.

Ella Boekelheide of Northwestern individually won that event at 18:20.10 and the boys overall varsity winner proved to be Nicholas Schlachter of Potter County in 16:59.60.

There were two Ipswich boys JV runners including Tyler Gellhaus in 15th at 12:06.70 and Tye Pietz 48th at 13:18.28. And there was one JV girl that day in the person of Bella Unser who was 49th in 16:20.65.

Things were a little more hectic for the Ipswich middle-school events.

The boys managed to place fifth in their JH team standings won by Highmore-Harrold. Ethan Wald placed fifth in 7:29.40 while Brayan Paguaga was 10th in 7:47.83. Edison Unser was 51st in 9:27.29, Benjamin Hoyle was 54th in 9:32.66 and Riley Pietz was 59th in 10:19.52.

The middle-school girls would place second only to Herreid/Selby Area 14 to 17 in their team standings.

Jennay Gisi placed second individually in 8:01.44. Bella Henderson was sixth in 8:20.56, while Emri Braun was 13th in 8:35.09. Then was Aubrey Crissman in 15th at 8:38.66, followed by Braelyn Holt in 17th at 8:39.58. Olivia Kadlec added a 20th in 8:43.45.

Ipswich will host an invitational on Saturday, Sept. 9 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Athletic Complex.

 

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