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        The Osmond Cross Country teams traveled to Twin Creeks Golf Club outside of Pender for the D-2 District XC meet.  A beautiful day greeted the runners from 21 schools: 97 boys and 67 girls.

          The Tigers all ran well with some season’s best times recorded.  Top finishers were Jared Bessmer and Johnson Chishiba who placed 10^th and 12^th respectively.  Any runners placing in the top 15 qualify for next week’s State meet in Kearney.  Jared’s time was 18:00.65 and Johnson was clocked at 18:22.04. 

          The next Tiger runner was Aaron Chishiba coming in 37^th place in 19:49.40, then Ethan Pfanstiel 49^th in a time of 20:15.17, then Keaton Timmerman in 66^th place at 21:05.91 and finally Alexander Heiman in 84^th place in a time of 22:51.90.

Team Scores:

1^st      34 – Crofton                          10^th   154 - Humphrey St. Fran

2^nd     63 – BRLD                            11^th   190 - Humphrey LHF

3^rd     81 – Winside                         12^th   192 - Laurel-Con-Col

4^th     83 – Winnebago                    13^th   252 - Ponca

5^th     88 - Elkhorn Valley              14^th   252 - Oakland-Craig

6^th     89 - Wisner-Pilger                 15^th   275 - Randolph

7^th     101 – Osmond

8^th     109 – Stanton

9^th     142 – Madison

          The Girl’s team ran well with Lexi Beacom finishing 31^st in a time of 25:19.9, Hayle Krienert 37^th in a time of 26:21.40, and Jozie Kumm 57^th in 30:04.3. 

          Top three girls teams and state qualifiers were 1^st. 39 – Bloomfield-Wausa: 2^nd 47 – Crofton: and 3^rd 54 – Stanton.

          “This is a tough field of quality runners” noted Coach Joe Ortmeier.  “Our teams competed hard and I’m proud of their efforts.  Also best of luck to Jared and Johnson at State X-C.”

          State Cross Country will be held at the Kearney Country Club next Friday October 20th.  Class D boys are scheduled to start at 3:00.