Cross Country: LQPV/DB girls win on tiebreaker
Sep. 30—GRANITE FALLS — The Canby/Minneota boys and the Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd girls won their respective divisions in the Yellow Medicine East Invitational at the Granite Run Golf Course.
The Canby/Minneota boys scored 45 points to edge second-place Lac qui Parle Valley, which had 48. Montevideo was third with 80.
Canby/Minneota's Kolton Duis won the 5,000-meter race in 16 minutes, 56 seconds. Gavin Carl took third for LQPV/D-B in 17:06.
Montevideo's top finisher was Brady Andrews, who took seventh in 17:48.
In the girls' race, LQPV/D-B and Canby-Minneota each scored 39 points. LQPV/D-B, however, won the tie-breaker, which is how the sixth runner for each team did. LQPV's harper Gronholz finished 22nd overall with 23:40. That was one place better than Canby/Minneota's Chevelle Hoffman, who took 23rd in 23:43.
Canby/Minneota's Braelyn Merritt won the individual title in 19:34. Chloe Gloege was third in 21:08 for LQPV/D-B.
Central Minnesota Christian's Sydney Duininck took fifth in 21:33. The Bluejays took third overall with 47 points.
Team scoring
(1) Canby/Minneota 45 ... (2) Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd 48 ... (3) Montevideo 80 ... (4) Benson/Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 126 ... (5) MACCRAY/Renville County West 167 ... (6) Ortonville 168 ... (7) Lakeview 170 ... (8) BOLD 190 ... (9) Border West 190
Individual
TOP FIVE — (1) Kolton Duis, C/M, 16:56 ... (2) Zach Ourada, C/M, 16:58 ... (3) Gavin Carl, LQPV/D-B, 17:06 ... (4) Ethan Schwankl, Lakeview, 17:10 ... (5) Blake Giese, C/M, 17:26
BENSON/KMS — (16) Noah Johnson 18:45 ... (17) Isaac Wirth 18:49 ... (30) Luke Froelich 19:51 ... (31) Logan Hadfield 19:56 ... (44) Quin Peterson 20:36
BOLD/BLHS — (19) Daniel Frank 18:57 ... (38) Carter Macik 20:24 ... (52) Brody Beckler 21:01 ... (62) Tegan Jansen 21:35 ... (64) Derrick Bahl 21:39
CCS — (36) Micah Lindgren 20:14 ... (85) Ethan Livingood 23:10
CMCS — (10) Timothy Brouwer 18:18 ... (34) Marcus Jackson 20:13 ... (37) Kaiden Ruis 20:23 ... (75) Caleb Greydanus 22:17
LQPV/D-B — (3) Carl 17:06 ... (6) Eli Hegland 17:38 ... (9) Taden Clark 18:08 ... (12) Tygan Allpress 18:32 ... (20) Justin Perkins 18:58
MACCRAY/RCW — (8) Ivan Berrera 18:08 ... (32) Ryan Schrupp 19:59 ... (45) Isaiah Schroeder 20:39 ... (54) Daniel Seehusen 21:21 ... (63) Josiah Seehusen 21:37
MONTEVIDEO — (7) Brady Andrews 17:48 ... (13) Carson Lynner 18:32 ... (14) Blake Andrews 18:36 ... (23) Nelson Velasquez 19:09 ... (27) Jose Cardona 19:36
YME — (55) Dylan Castillo 21:22 ... (83) Connor Olson 22:41 ... (93) Xavier Mikel 24:35
Team scoring
(1) Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd 39 ... (2) Canby/Minneota 39 ... (3) Central Minnesota Christian 47 ... (4) Lakeview 116 ... (5) Benson/Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 118
Individual
TOP FIVE — (1) Braelyn Merritt, C/M, 19:34 ... (2) Claire Stoks, C/M, 19:54 ... (3) Chloe Gloege, LQPV/D-B, 21:08 ... (4) Julia Schmidt, Border West, 21:29 ... (5) Sidney Duininck, CMCS, 21:33
BENSON/KMS — (14) Amber Rosemeier 22:23 ... (29) Alissa Thompson 24:36 ... (48) Valerie Hienkens 27:42 ... (49) Katlyn Peters 27:46 ... (57) Sophia Miller 30:13
BOLD/BLHS — (21) Keely Jansen 23:23 ... (25) Kenna Henriksen 23:55 ... (40) Ava Schlomann 26:08 ... (54) Hannah Schlomann 29:54
CCS — (28) May Naomi 24:28
CMCS — (5) Duininck ... (7) Annaliese Wood 21:51 ... (13) Abby Timmer 22:20 ... (16) Ketcie Ulferts 22:46 ... (17) Maggie Setrum 22:48
LQPV/D-B — (3) Gloege 21:08 ... (6) Taylor Shelstad 21:40 ... (8) Anika Fernholz 22:05 ... (10) Taylor Wood 22:12 ... (19) Shay Bothun 23:16
MACCRAY/RCW — (34) Elizabeth Johnson 25:31 ... (55) Kayloni Dalle 30:05 ... (60) Hope Hendriks 32:38
MONTEVIDEO — (36) Brenna Winters 25:41 ... (41) Brooke DeJong 26:51 ... (51) Emily Valenzuela 28:39 ... (53) Hope Rittel 29:35
YME — (9) Sanjana Pullan 22:08 ... (11) Anjeli Pullan 22:14 ... (43) Karina Jahn 27:22 ... (45) Evelyn Martin 27:29
