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            Friday October 5^th was the 43^rd running of the Bloomfield Invitational cross country meet and 6^th running of the Lewis & Clark conference meet.  The Osmond boy’s took runner-up honors in both.

          Jared Bessmer and Johnson Chishiba got out well and were in the lead group for the first loop of the course with other Tigers back needing to close it up a bit.  Second time around Jared had moved into first and Johnson second with Graysen really moving up into fifth spot.  Ryan Schmit and Aaron Chishiba were 16 to 19 positions with the rest of the team working hard.

          On the last strait to the line Kathol and Joachimsen of Hartington passed Jared and Johnson and the sprint was on.  The two Wildcats went one and two, Johnson was 3^rd (18:13), Jared was 4^th (18:14), and Graysen was 5^th (18:48).  Ryan had passed two Hartington Cats for 12^th place (19:22) and Aaron was 17^th (19:49), Kaden Polt was 25^st (20:26), Alexander Heiman 39^th (22:47), and Connor vonRentzell held off Becker of Hartington for 48^th (24:46).  These were their positions in the Conference meet.

          “I would like to congratulate our team for earning the Conference runner-up plaque. Our team really ran tough but Hartington made the last move and held on.  Each runner did their best to move up on the final stretch” complimented Coach Ortmeier. “It was really fun having the football team and volleyball team there cheering our teams on!”

          The Bloomfield meet is run in conjunction with the Lewis & Clark Conference meet, so the scoring for one will be different than the other.

L&C Conf.                                                Bloomfield Invite

1^st      21     Hartington/Newcastle                     22     Hartington/Newcastle

2^nd     23     Osmond                                           24     Osmond

3^rd     66     Laurel/Concord/Coleridge             68     Norfolk Reserves

4^th     68     Winside                                           77     LCC 

5^th     74     Ponca                                               78     Winside

6^th     89     Winnebago                                      88     Ponca

7^th                                                                        105   Winnebago

          In the girl’s division Lexi Beacom finished 16^th (25:41), Hayle Krienert 17^th (26:07), and Jozie Kumm 20^th (30:00).  Again all positions from the Conference meet.

          In the junior high division of the Bloomfield invitational Erica Heiman collected the fifth place medal (10:58) and Juliana Kumm took home the 8^th place medal (12:03). 

          For the boy’s Caleb Miller finished 7^th (9:54), Robert Aschoff 8^th (10:00), Spencer Hillle 9^th (10:00), and James Doyle 17^th in 11:13. 

          Tiger Varsity teams compete in District D-3 at Skyview Lake on Thursday October 11 starting with girl’s at 4:30 and boy’s at 5:00.