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Border West and Ortonville were among the area teams competing at the Ortonville Cross Country Invitational on Monday.
“We struggled at this meet due to the heat and some runners coming back from illnesses,” said Border West Head Coach Brittany Erickson. “We had some cooler weather last week and didn't acclimate as well with the warmer temperatures at Ortonville. We are also coming out of our two-week no meet period and I think it just surprised some of the runners to get back into race mode. Ortonville was a smaller meet, so we still saw some success, but nowhere near where we left off with our varsity runners before the break. They know it and as coaches, we know it. We have a lot of the season left so we are looking to redeem ourselves a bit with the Yellow Medicine East meet and our home meet.”
Joe Arens (20:10.00) led the Border West boys with a ninth place finish out of 41 runners. Derek Lupkes (20:49) was twelfth, Cole Sykora (21:00.00) fourteenth, Zach Rikimoto (21:06) fifteenth, Brady Pederson (21:51) nineteenth and Conner Goodhart (22:51) twenty-fourth.
Cadyn Vanderwal (18:22) of Ortonville was the individual champion, with Charles Hanson (18:47) of Morris taking second and Jacob Cloos (19:02) of Ortonville coming in third. Other Ortonville finishers were Cody Klepel (21:31) in 18th place, Trent Eastman (22:00) in 21st place and Ashton Tollakson (24:06) in 31st place.
The Border West girls’ were led by Julia Schmidt (22:30), who came in fourth. Karter Martinek (26:22) was 26th, Ava Klindworth (27:24) 28th, Braylen Schmidt (28:20) 30th, Sadie Vipond (29:08) 33rd, Aurora Johnson (29:38) 34th and Gracie Gallagher (30:24) 38th.
Brooklyn Conrad (20:34) of Ortonville won the individual race and Hailey Werk (20:43) of Morris was runner-up.
“Hats off to our Junior High runners,” added Coach Erickson. “Lucas Gahlon was sitting in second with about a quarter mile to go and really put the pedal to the metal to out finish the lead runner. Drew Franzese, Evan Frisch, Kassidy Vlaminck, and Josey Vipond all had PRs for a 2K race. Some of them even shaved off 4 minutes from a previous 2K race.”
Boys 5000 Meter Run
1 Vanderwal, Cadyn Ortonville 18:22.00
2 Hanson, Charles Morris 18:47.00
3 Cloos, Jacob Ortonville 19:02.00
4 Stallman, Gavin Morris 19:27.00
5 Brouwer, Tim Cmcwcc 19:36.00
6 Zwart, Sam Cmcwcc 19:42.00
7 Giese, Matthew Morris 19:48.00
8 Buhl, Joacob Morris 20:04.00
9 Arens, Joe Border West 20:10.00
10 Pederson, Hunter Morris 20:11.00
11 Richards, Pierce Morris 20:15.00
12 Lupkes, Derek Border West 20:49.00
13 Johnson, Aidean RTR 20:54.00
14 Sykora, Cole Border West 21:00.00
15 Rikimoto, Zachary Border West 21:06.00
16 Richards, Truett Morris 21:09.00
17 Ruis, Kaiden Cmcwcc 21:15.00
18 Klepel, Cody Ortonville 21:31.00
19 Pederson, Brady Border West 21:52.00
20 Bird, Buddy Sisseton 21:55.00
21 Eastman, Trent Ortonville 22:00.00
22 Jordan, Samuel Morris 22:13.00
23 Seales, Trevor Morris 22:48.00
24 Goodhart, Connor Border West 22:51.00
25 Stallman, Grady Morris 22:52.00
26 Koehler, Ethan Morris 22:56.00
27 Hruby, kade Sisseton 23:10.00
28 Karels, Will Milbank 23:12.00
29 Devkota, Aarav Morris 23:13.00
30 O'Farrell, Ryan Milbank 23:57.00
31 Tollakson, Ashton Ortonville 24:06.00
32 Hormann, Brayden Border West 24:33.00
33 Honken, Gabe Cmcwcc 24:53.00
34 Mahoney, Dylan Morris 25:12.00
35 Petersen, Emmett RTR 25:56.00
36 Hinrichs, Kaden Morris 26:41.00
37 Conrad, James Ortonville 26:57.00
38 Bingham, Tarin RTR 27:11.00
39 Andgelo, Robert Ortonville 27:33.00
40 Erickson, Noah Morris 27:46.00
41 Kremer, Kyle Border West 27:58.00
Girls 5000 Meter Run
1 Conrad, Brooklyn Ortonville 20:34.00
2 Werk, Hailey Morris 20:43.00
3 Duininck, Sidney Cmcwcc 22:02.00
4 Schmidt, Julia Border West 22:30.00
5 Erickson, Natasha Cmcwcc 22:40.00
6 Carrington, Meredith Morris 23:02.00
7 Frynboth, Isabel Morris 23:13.00
8 Marty, Caryn Morris 23:21.00
9 Pullan, Sanjana YME 23:26.00
10 Wendland, Stella Milbank 23:58.00
11 Schultz, Yenenesh Morris 23:59.00
12 Pullan, Anjali YME 24:09.00
13 Klindwort, Ava Border West 24:24.00
14 LaBrune, Summer RTR 24:54.00
15 Fischer, Kendal Morris 24:59.00
16 Setrum, Maggie Cmcwcc 25:00.00
17 Pagel, Lcara RTR 25:04.00
18 Tillotsen, Jaiden Milbank 25:18.00
19 Wiik, Jaclyn Milbank 25:28.00
20 Wiik, Julia Milbank 25:29.00
21 Quintanilla, Elexia Milbank 25:46.00
22 Perkins, Alayna Morris 25:55.00
23 Pederson, Gabby Cmcwcc 26:15.00
24 Brouwer, Ashlyn Cmcwcc 26:17.00
25 Townsend, Zayda Milbank 26:20.00
26 Martinek, Karter Border West 26:22.00
27 Osowski, Savanna Milbank 26:28.00
28 Gastineau, Sophia Milbank 27:21.00
29 Cowell, Katelyn RTR 27:58.00
30 Schmidt, Braylen Border West 28:20.00
31 Thomesen, Faith RTR 28:29.00
32 Anderson, Izabella YME 28:40.00
33 Vipond, Sadie Border West 29:08.00
34 Johnson, Aurora Border West 29:38.00
35 Dwire, Sara RTR 29:47.00
36 Anderson, Violet YME 30:04.00
37 Farrell, Addie Milbank 30:12.00
38 Gallagher, Gracie Border West 30:24.00
39 Pagel, Maryann RTR 34:17.00