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            Thursday August 29 was a beautiful late summer day at the Hartington-Newcastle Sports Complex.  A large group of Tiger runners stepped to the line and the gun started the 2019 season.  Hartington freshman Carson Noecker took the early lead followed by Osmond’s Mason Bykerk, Johnson Chishiba.  Graysen Schultze was battling Hartington’s Brayden Kathol and Aaron Chishiba, Ryan Schmit and Octavio Palacios were not far behind. 

          As the runners covered the last thousand meters the order changed.  Noecker blazed the course in a great time of 16:04.3 and his teammate Kathol was second at 17:33.7.  Johnson Chishiba was third in his fastest time of 17:46.4; Mason Bykerk was fourth in his first 5K run in a good time of 17:57.6.  Graysen Schultze was fifth in his fastest time of 18:12.6.  Ryan Schmit and Aaron Chishiba were in a full sprint to the finish but were just edged out be Kruger of Winside and Berridge of Winnebago.  Ryan placed 10^th in 19:02.5 and Aaron 11^th at 19:05.3 and again their fastest times ever. Octavio Palacios finished just one place out of the medals in 16^th place in 19:28.3.

          The next wave of Tigers was led by Justus Meartins 29^th place in 20:32.0: Zach Alderson 30^th in 20:36.2: Kaden Polt 31^st in 20:36.9, and Robert Aschoff 38^th in a time of 21:04.1.  Bodie True finished in 42^nd place in a time of 21:44.4 followed by Keaton Timmerman in 43^rd place clocked at 21:59.1, then Hunter Beacom in 51^st place at 22:41.6.  Freshmen Karter Johnson and Hudson Schultze finished in 58^th and 61^st place respectively.  Their times were 23:26.9 and 23:37.5.  Connor von Rentzell finished the race in 73^rd place covering the distance in 26:29.5.

          The boy’s outscored the host Wildcats 22 to 23.  Before a scoring error was discovered it was thought that the two teams had tied and that the Tigers had won on the place of the fifth placing Tiger runner which would have been Aaron Chishiba placing higher than the Hartington fifth place runner.  The Osmond reserve team placed sixth in the eleven team field.

          The girl’s finished fourth in the team race.  Lexi Beacom was the top finisher for the Tigers.  She placed 18^th in a time of 26:57.0.  Hayle Krienert and Riley Wagner hit the finish line at nearly the same time to placed 20^th and 21^st in times of 27:49.6 and 27:49.7. Jozie Kumm placed 25^th in a time of 30:32.9.

          In the junior high division the Osmond girls places all five girls in the top ten.  Keli Aschoff finished second in 10:15.4 for the 2000 meter race.  Erica Heiman was 6^th in 11:22.5; Caydence Krienert was 7^th in 11:23.4. Juliana Kumm finished in 9^th place and Brianna Kumm in 10^th   in times of 11:28.7 and 11:47.6. 

          On the boy’s side James Doyle came in 11^th just missing a medal.  His time was 9:32.7.  Andrew Bucklew finished the race in 30^th place in a time of 11:17.7 and Cody Gansebom was 32^nd in 11:26.1.

          “I was very proud of all the Tiger runners, they hung in there at this early meet and all had strong finishes” praised Coach Joe Ortmeier. “This was the first cross country meet for a lot of our kids and they were a little apprehensive.”

          Team Scores:

Boy’s                                                          Girls

1^st      22      Osmond                                   23      Hartington-Hewcastle

2^nd     23      Hartington-Newcastle              24      Pender

3^rd      72      Plainview                                 32      Battle Creek

4^th      82      Winside                                   72      Osmond

5^th      90      Winnebago                              72      Winnebago

6^th      127    Osmond JV

7^th      127    Hartington-Newcastle JV

8^th      150    Pender

9^th      151    Battle Creek

10^th    156    Ponca

11^th    156    Laurel-Concord-Coleridge