Elk Mound boys win D-SC cross country championship, girls fourth
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FINISHING FOURTH — Mounder senior Aiden Schiferl finished fourth in the boys’ Dunn-St. Croix cross country meet to help Elk Mound win the conference championship. Schiferl ran a time of 16:55.03 to earn sport on the all-conference first team. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
COLFAX — With four runners placing in the top 10 of 44 competitors, the Elk Mound boys’ cross country team won the Dunn-St. Croix Conference team title with seven complete teams racing. The Mounder girls were fourth in a field of six teams in the meet held at the Whitetail Golf Course last Thursday, October 13.
The Mounder boys’ claimed the 2022 conference crown by having four of its top five runners finish ahead of Glenwood City’s third runner as they edged the Hilltoppers by eight points, 36 to 44. Just the previous Saturday at Whitetail, the Glenwood City boys had beaten Elk Mound by a near identical margin.
Although JJ Williams of Glenwood City won the boy’s division, Mounder senior Ian Hazen was just five seconds behind him for second place with a time of 16:18.02. Senior Aiden Schiferl was the second runner in for Elk Mound finishing at 16:55.03 for fourth place, and was followed by yet another senior Trae Schaefer who placed sixth at 17:48.32. Juniors Caleb Beskow and Bodie Folczyk were the Mounders fourth and fifth runners to cross the finish line. Beskow finished ninth at 18:11.78 and Folczyk placed 15th with a time of 18:35.93. Rounding out the boys’ squad were seniors AJ Miller, who finished in 22nd at 19:27, and Tobey Westcott, who was right on Miller’s heels for 23rd place in 19:29.
OUT FRONT — Mounder senior Ian Hazen (left) ran beside Glenwood City’s JJ Williams for much of the boys’ race at last Thursday’s Dunn-St. Croix Cross Country meet at Whitetail Golf course. Hazen finished in second place with a time of 16:18.02 and earned first team all-conference honors. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Runners finishing in first through seventh place were declared first team all-conference while eighth through 14 are second team. Hazen, Schiferl, and Schaefer all earned first-team honors while Beskow was named to the second team with Folczyk just missing the cut by one place.
Sophomore Ellie Schiszik led the Mounder girls with a fifth place finish in 21:26.86 to capture a first team all-conference spot. Junior Marley King just missed a second team all-conference spot by placing 15th in 22:22.43, while Aleya Hadenfeldt, the only senior on the Lady Mounders’ roster, was 27th in 25:12.35, Carly Mohr, a junior, placed 30th in 26:24.83, junior Addison Young was the fifth Mounder to finish taking 33rd in a time of 27:37.09, sophomore Kylee Anderson came in at 28:02.62 for 35th place, and Karlen Knospe, another sophomore, was 41st in 32:41. There were 42 individuals in the race which was won by Molly Heidorn of Colfax for the fourth consecutive year as she helped her Vikings knock off defending champion Durand for the girls’ team title.
FINISHING FIRST for the Elk Mound girls in the October 13 Dunn-St. Croix Cross Country meet was Ellie Schiszik. The sophomore placed fifth in the race with a time of 21:26.86 and was the only Mounder girl to earn all-conference honors. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Elk Mound will travel to Black River Falls for the WIAA Division 2 sectional meet at Skyline Golf Course this Saturday, October 22. The girls’ race will begin at 11 a.m. with the boys to follow at noon.
Girls’ team scores: Colfax 45, Durand 50, Boyceville 91, Elk Mound 100, Glenwood City 101, Spring Valley 119
Boys’ team scores: Elk Mound 36, Glenwood City 44, Spring Valley 92, Colfax 118, Mondovi 121, Durand 146, Boyceville 150