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Bergman and Bennett Lead Knights in Cross Country Opener at The Vintage

By Craig Olson, 08/29/22, 7:30PM CDT

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The West Central Area cross country teams had a decent showing at Vintage Golf Course on Monday with finishes of 6th and 5th for boys and girls teams, respectively. The link to the results is: https://www.mtecresults.com/event/show/4511/

Eli Bergman led the boys’ team with a 5K time of 19:25 and placed 19th overall. “I've been very impressed with his leadership so far this year, and he is building on successes that he had last year,” commented Head Coach Austin Hanson of the Knights.

Taylor Bennett led the girls’ team with a time of 21:47 and is hoping to have a standout year after taking a year off last season. “She has been looking incredible in practice, and always has a smile that goes with her positive attitude,” noted Coach Hanson. 

Hanson continued, “I thought both teams ran very well! We had some new runners that are just getting their feet wet and we looked a bit tired, but we will recover and run hard at Breckenridge this Thursday. I think with more experience and hard work the next few weeks our legs will start popping. There was fantastic competition and the weather was great. An awesome way to start out a new XC season!”

Varsity Boys’ Team Results
1. Park Rapids Area 28, 2. Staples-Motley 63, 3. Fergus Falls 75, 4. Bertha-Hewitt 79, 5. Sauk Centre 155, 6. West Central Area 168, 7. Detroit Lakes 183, 8. Ottertail Central 185, 9. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 281, 10. Brandon-Evansville 323, 11. New York Mills 323

Varsity Boys’ Individual Results
West Central Area
18. Eli Bergman 19:25.6, 27. Noah Olson 19:55.7, 29. Roman Mihailovschi 20:03.3, 45. Aaron Biss 21:13.3, 49. Neko Moran 21:19.9, 50. Zeke Sieckert 21:24.2, 55. Michael Girard 21:59.8

Ottertail Central
10. Peter Newark 18:15.0, 31. Joseph Froslee 20:17.1, 33. Talyn Setterholm 20:27.2, 54. Aidan Heggem 21:54.2, 57. August Wicklund 22:11.7, 58. Nathan Russ 22:12.4, 66. Quin Condiff 14:17.4

New York Mills
59. Simon Snyder 22:17.9, 62. Elijah Geiser 22:49.4, 64. Austin Geiser 23:53.0, 67. Aaron Tumberg 25:06.6, 71. Jeron Witt 28:28.4

Brandon-Evansville
60. August Bredberg 22:24.5, 61. Kenneth Spielman 22:28.2, 65. Donell Lee 24:13.7, 68. Cohen Reiland 25:54.6, 69. Darius Grussing 26:50.6, 70. Ben Dusing 27:12.4, 72. Justin Lederman 20:08.2

Fergus Falls
11. Jaden Miller 18:15.1, 12. Matthew Tuel 18:44.1, 13. Michael Schmidt 18:58.9, 17. Tommy Erickson 19:19.7, 22. Henry Greenagel 19:36.6, 35. MicahMouser 20:38.8, 36. Jackson Lysne 20:45.3

Bertha-Hewitt
1. Brady Rach 17:16.0, 14. Zane Guderjahn 19:00.6, 20. Zach Baumgartner 19:30.0, 21. Preston Miller 19:35.5, 23. Henry Lockwood 19:38.5, 34. Titus Eckel 20:34.8, 52. Gunnar Barthel 21:34.4

Girls Varsity Team Results
1. Staples-Motley 32, 2. Park Rapids Area 83, 3. Fergus Falls 96, 4. Detroit Lakes 98, 5. West Central Area 103, 6. Crosby-Ironton 131, 7. New York Mills 176, 8. Sauk Centre 202, 9. Pine River-Backus 268

Girls Varsity Individual Results
West Central Area
9. Taylor Bennett 21:47.6, 19. Terina Blascyk 23:58.9, 20. Kyra Beyer 24:02.4, 25. Alexa Blume 24:40.9, 30. Blaire Rueter 24:59.7, 33. Brooklyn Stroebel 25:09.7, 39. Skylar Larue 26:08.6

Fergus Falls
2. Cassie Wellman 20:53.4, 11. Naomi Dummer 22:40.1, 12. Sarah Grotberg 23:00.7, 34. Julia Anderson 25:14.4, 37. Rebecca Schindler 25:26.2, 45. Hannah Scharnberg 27:59.6, 49. Sonja Lahti 29:43.3

New York Mills
8. Jada Goeson 21:41.2, 27. Macy Koljonen 24:50.5, 35. Katherin Garcia 25:19.6, 52. Morgyn O’Dea 29:48.7, 54. Kaitlyn Geiser 30:31.8, 57. Rosemary Laudenbach 31:03.8

Ottertail Central
12. Norah Froslee 22:09.1, 28. Erika Heibel 24:24.9, 38. Laney Frost 25:09.6, 41. Emily Christensen 25:17.5

Bertha-Hewitt
6. Kendra Miller 21:19.0, Areianna Bryniarski 26:12.4, 49. Ella Bannister 26:16.1

Brandon-Evansville
18. Ashley Paulson 23:15.6, 64. Emma Erickson 29:46.5, 67. Hope Rovang 29:58.4, 81. Mary Fossell 34:57.7

Parkers Prairie
55. Sarah Toyli 27:41.8, 76. Taylor Duberowski 32:40.9

Verndale
79. Mia Shaw 34:12.4