Boys cross country team places 7th out of field of 30

East Grand Forks Invitational Cross Country Meet, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
*Personal Record (-minutes:seconds faster)
Girls Junior High Race
(3200 meters)
Jennie Buegler, 8th, 15:56
Karlie Eaton, 11th, 16:16
Brenley Anderson, 13th, 16:21 * (-11 sec)
No Team Score
Boys JV Race (5000 meters)
Jaden Chorney, 13th, 21:46 (Auto)
Taylor Poole, 28th, 25:54 (Auto)
Andrew Cali, 31st, 27:50
Zach Olson, 32nd, 28:50
No Team Score
Girls Varsity Race (4000 meters)
Shantelle Davidson, 11th, 17:27
Jessie Buegler, 14th, 17:39
Lacy Holen, 38th, 20:53 * (-23 sec)
Aimee Sugden, 44th, 23:02 * (-6 sec)
No Team Score
Boys Varsity Race (5000 meters)
Andrew Friesen, 7th, 18:11
Dylan Davis, 8th, 18:19
Jay Neilson, 16th, 19:00
Vincent Scott, 18th, 19:18 * (-38 sec)
Joe Cooper, 21st, 19:33 * (-2 sec)
Chris Heinrich, 22nd, 19:50
Timo Brielmann, 23rd, 20:32
Team Results
Warroad, 29
Devil’s Lake (ND), 56
Lake of the Woods-Rainy River, 70
Roseau, 109
Hawley-Ulen-Hitterdahl, 128
All other teams (3) incomplete
Coach’ Sariina Kalli’s Comments/Highlights
Our boys recorded another impressive team performance Sept. 30, getting two runners in the top ten and all seven runners under 25 to pull out a third place finish in East Grand Forks.
The order of our top seven shifted a bit this week, as sophomores Vincent Scott and Joe Cooper posted personal records (PRs) to put them in the top five for the Bears. This was especially helpful since we were running without junior Tyler Ketchum, who stayed back to recover from an illness.
I have to give credit to our two junior high boys this week, as well. We got to the meet late, so eighth graders Jaden Chorney and Taylor Poole jumped up to JV competition in EGF. They posted automatic PRs for 5000-meters, racing one mile longer than the junior high races they’ve been running. It was fun to watch them step it up and record respectable times, and encouraging to know they already want to run JV again.
Although no team score was filed for the girls’ varsity team, junior Shantelle Davidson and eighth grader Jessie Beugler led the team, finishing 11th and 14th. Freshman Lacy Holen posted a 23-second PR and sophomore Aimee Sugden was 6 seconds faster than last year’s best mark. The Bears were running without sophomores Madie Heinrich and Jennifer Blodgett.

Swain Invitational Cross Country Meet, Saturday, October 2, 2004
Enger Park Golf Course, Duluth, MN
* Personal Record (-minutes:seconds faster)

Girls 7-8 Grade Race
(2600 meters)
Karlie Eaton, 67th, 14:00
Jennie Buegler, 68th, 14;01
Brenley Anderson, 69th, 14:02
No Team Score
Boys 7-8 Grade Race
(2600 meters)
Jaden Chorney, 51st, 11:28
Taylor Poole, 65th, 11:58
No Team Score
Boys Class A JV Race
(5000 meters)
Timo Brielmann, 17th, 20:52
Andrew Cali, 94th, 28:53
Zach Olson, 95th, 29:30
No Team Score
Girls Sophomore Race
(4000 meters)
Lacy Holen, 84th, 21:41
Aimee Sugden, 107th, 23:55
No Team Score
Girls Class A Varsity Race
(4000 meters)
Shantelle Davidson, 60th, 18:14
Jessie Buegler, 88th, 18:45
Madie Heinrich, 94th, 18:54
No Team Score
Boys Class A Varsity Race
(5000 meters)
Tyler Ketchum, 24th, 18:32
Andrew Friesen, 30th, 18:45
Dylan Davis, 32nd, 18:48
Jay Neilson, 64th, 19:34
Joe Cooper, 112th, 20:16
Chris Heinrich, 126th, 20:27
Vincent Scott, 148th, 21:13
Boys Class A Varsity
Team Results
(Section 8A Teams Highlighted)
Eveleth-Gilbert, 107
Minnehaha Academy, 116
Warroad, 158
United South Central, 211
Northwestern, 219
Carlton-Wrenshall, 240
Lake of the Woods-Rainy River, 262
Rockford, 281
Watertown-Mayer, 301
Delano, 302
Amery, 323
Wadena-Deer Creek, 353
Redwood Valley, 357
Glencoe-Silver Lake, 394
*Mesabi East, 404
*Hermantown, 404
Blake, 416
Mayer Lutheran, 427
Marshall School, 450
Moose Lake-Willow River, 517
St Paul Academy, 527
Dilworth-Glyn-Felton, 534
Rush City, 545
Cromwell, 553
Norwood Young America, 572
DeLaSalle, 574
Deer River-Northland, 674
East Grand Forks, 765
Chatfield, 789
MLBO, 837
Coach’s Comments/Highlights
Although we didn’t come close to Section 8A rival Warroad (3rd), the Lake of the Woods boys did place 7th of 30 full teams in Duluth, and finished well ahead of other section teams Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (22nd) and Deer River-Northland-Remer (27th).
I can’t remember a time when we’ve had enough boys to field a varsity squad at Swain, much less one that competes well enough to place in the top ten. Junior Tyler Ketchum showed his strength on the hills by leading the Bears with a 24th place finish and a time only 10 seconds slower than his flat-course PR. Freshman Andrew Friesen (30th) and sophomore Dylan Davis (32nd) pressed on to leave only a 16-second margin between our first and third runners. Junior Jay Neilson jumped in next in 64th place, while sophomore Joe Cooper (112th), senior Chris Heinrich (126th) and sophomore Vincent Scott (148th) rounded out the top seven.
Freshman Timo Brielmann ran his JV race 21 seconds faster than Scott’s varsity race, so the end of our top seven will switch around again for this week’s meet in Grand Rapids. Varsity and JV runners compete in the same race in Grand Rapids, so we’ll find out where we sit with our inter-squad competition.
Junior Shantelle Davidson paced the girls’ team at Swain, finishing 60th of 170 runners in the Class A Girls Varsity race. Eighth grader Jessie Buegler placed 88th and sophomore Madie Heinrich finished 94th in the same race.
The Bears travel to Grand Rapids Oct. 7 and to International Falls Oct. 14.