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            It was a beautiful early fall day at the Crofton Lakeview Golf Course site of the Crofton Cross Country Invitational.  The South Sioux City and Norfolk Catholic teams overshadowed the team race, but Harting-Newcastles sophomore Carson Noecker dominated the race course.  Noecker covered the 3.1 mile distance in an outstanding time of 15:32.48.  Second place was also a good time of 17:11.44 by South Sioux Cities Mesuidi Ejerso.

          Top finisher for the fifth place Osmond Tigers was Johnson Chishiba placing 9^th in a time of 18:05.74, just 2 seconds behind Liess of Norfolk Catholic.  Graysen Schultze missed a medal by a single place finishing in 16^th place in 18:42.01.  Graysen out-leaned Foecking of Norfolk Catholic who had a time of 18:42.82 automatic timing.

          A trio of Tigers came in 30, 31, and 32^nd place.  Robert Aschoff led the group with a time of 20:28.58: Kaden Polt next at 20:40.65: followed by Bodie True clocked at 20:49.20, all pretty good times for this hilly course. Hudson Schultze placed 41^st in 21:27.11.  Hunter Beacom finished 12^th in the junior varsity division in a time of 22:22.89.

          In the girl’s division junior Riley Wagner missed a medal by two spots.  She finished in 17^th place in a time of 24:43.98.  Hayle Krienert was the next Tiger to cross the line in 29^th place in a time of 29:08.19 followed by Jozie Kumm in 33^rd place in 30:55.16.

          In the junior high portion of the meet Keli Aschoff earned a medal placing 8^th covering the 2000 meters in 8:56.43.  For the boy’s Andrew Bucklew finished in 20^th place in a time of 8:09.21.

“I thought we ran pretty well on a tough course” noted Coach Ortmeier. “I also liked the way we competed with the bigger schools, we gave a good account of ourselves.”

Team Scoring:

1st              23               South Sioux City

2^nd              28               Norfolk Catholic

3^rd               72               Hartington-Newcastle

4^th               80               Bloomfield/Wausa

5^th               84               Osmond

6^th               107             Bancroft-Rosalie-Lyons-Decatur

7^th               114             Crofton

8^th               146             Summerland

9^th               150             Laurel-Concord-Coleridge

10^th             192             Randolph