Elk Mound boys CC wins again; Colfax girls finish third in SV meet
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COLFAX sophomore Jillian Bowe (left front) and senior Juelia Berger led a pack of runners at the Spring Valley Cross Country Invitational last Thursday. —photo by Missy Klatt
SPRING VALLEY — The weather wasn’t too cooperative for the Elk Mound and Colfax harriers on Thursday afternoon, October 3, when they competed in Spring Valley.
In a preview of the upcoming conference meet, which will be held October 17 in Spring Valley, the Elk Mound boys took top honors once again with a score of 37 which beat out second place Clear Lake by 38 points. Elk Mound’s girls’ team finished in sixth place with a score of 156.
The Colfax girls, on the other hand, went into the meet hoping to finish behind Durand and Glenwood City and managed to do just that with 86-points for a third-place showing, while the boys’ squad finished in ninth with 236 points.
The Vikings have some time off before returning to the course in Eau Claire this Saturday, October 12, but the Mounders were in Amery last evening, Tuesday, to compete. Those respective meets will be the final regular season tune-ups for both schools before returning to Spring Valley on October 17 for the Dunn-St. Croix Confernce meet.
Elk Mound
ELK MOUND senior Kristin Martinson (left) and freshman Rosie Kaminski run together during a portion of the Cross Country meet in Spring Valley on Thursday, October 3. —photo by Missy Klatt
“The kids did a great job in less than ideal conditions at the meet,” said Mounders’ head coach Jeremiah Fredrickson. “The men’s team continues to push each other to get better each race. It has been a real joy to coach them and watch them grow throughout the season”
The Mounder men once again took the top spot as they finished with a total of 37 points from their one through five runners.
Cade Hanson was back in a position that has been a steady constant for the senior as he finished in second place with a time of 17:59.4.
Elk Mound’s two and three runners have flip flopped most of the season and this week was no different as Lukas Wagner finished in fifth and Andrew Pathos finished seventh. Wagner completed the race in a time of 18:13.1 and Pathos crossed at 18:21.8.
Finishing off the scoring for the Mounder men were Seth and Ian Hazen. The pair had times of 18:37.6 and 18:39.4 for eleventh and twelfth place.
“The women are starting to get healthy and learning how to race,” Fredrickson explained. “Hopefully we get some nicer weather to run in and they should only get better moving forward.”
The Lady Mounders made their way to a sixth-place finish last week as Kristin Martinson was the first to cross the finish for her team with a time of 23:46.5, good for twenty-third place.
Kyra Hadenfeldt and Taya Schaefer were next to finish for Elk Mound. Hadenfeldt took twenty-seventh and Schaefer was forty-first with respective times of 24:34.9 and 25:25.2.
Wrapping up the points for the Mounders was Amber Best and Laney Moyer in forty-fifth and forty-sixth place in times of 25:59.2 and 26:00.6
Colfax
“The girls had their best race of the year finishing third behind state-ranked Durand and Glenwood City,” said Colfax head coach Joe Doucette.
Molly Heidorn topped the field of 85 lady runners as she took first place with a time of 20:27.7.
Finishing in eleventh for the Vikings was Jasmine Best with a time of 22:42.5, followed by Aynsley Olson with a fourteenth-place finish and time of 23:10.2.
“Freshmen Molly Heidorn had a super race in winning over a strong field. She beat a lot of tough kids,” Doucette explained. “Jasmine Best looked great as did Aynsley Olson.”
Juelia Berger and Jillian Bowe were next to cross for Colfax with times of 25:08.4 and 25:13.7 for thirty-fourth and thirty-sixth place.
The Viking men struggled through the windy afternoon to take ninth place finish with 236 points.
COLFAX’S top-finishing boys at last Thursday’s Spring Valley Cross Country Invite were Dennis Sonnentag (front left) and Noah Heidorn (right). —photo by Missy Klatt
FIRST-YEAR RUNNERS — Elk Mound freshmen Aiden Schiferl (left) and Trae Schaefer are shown competing at the Spring Valley Cross Country Invite last Thursday, October 3. —photo by Missy Klatt
Noah Heidorn has been steady for the Vikings finishing in thirty-seventh place and a time of 20:07.7, followed by Dennis Sonnentag in forty-first place and a time of 20:11.4.
“The boys field is loaded with good teams, we had hoped to finish a touch higher but knew that would be tough,” said Doucette. “Noah and Dennis are our one and two, were just average today. They will have to have a great race when we come back in two weeks for the conference race.”
Finishing in fifty-fourth place was freshman Ashton Yarrington with a time of 20:58.1; crossing a mere seven seconds later was Jadent Buchholz in sixtieth place and a time of 21:05.6.
Colfax’s fourth and fifth runners, Luke Blanchard and Brison Tuschl, finished in seventy-fifth and seventy-eighth place with times of 22:04.4 and 22:40.2.
“We want to see if we can get a couple kids all-conference and develop some of our younger kids,” said Doucette. “Elk Mound is a very good team right now and the boys and girls conference is full of good teams.”
Boys’ Team Results: 1. Elk Mound 37, 2. Clear Lake 75, 3. Ellsworth 99, 4. Prescott 118, 5. Spring Valley 120, 6. Glenwood City 137, 7. Durand 168, 8. Boyceville 181, 9. Colfax 236, 10. Mondovi 283.
Boys’ Individual Results: Elk Mound 2. Cade Hanson 17:59.4, 5. Lukas Wagner 18:13.1, 7. Andrew Pathos 18:21.8, 11. Seth Hazen 18:37.6, 12. Ian Hazen 18:39.4, 27. Trae Schaefer 19:21.3, 29. Aiden Schiferl 19:31.1, 40. Brady Hunsnucker 20:10.6, 49. Carter Sundeen 20:30.9, 57. Avery Lauer 20:59.4, 58. Mitchell Hainstock 21:02.8, 62. Keagan McRea 21:20.1, 65. Jackson Gehweller 21:22.6, 66. Walker Banaszak 21:24.6, 74. Cason Pederson 21:49.7, 77. Avery Anderson 22:14.8, 97, Mitch Solberg 23:49.3, 100. AJ Miller 24:04.2, 110. Tobey Westcott 24:45.3; Colfax 37. Noah Heidorn 20:07.7, 41. Dennis Sonnentag 20:11.4, 54. Ashton Yarrington 20:58.1, 60. Jadent Buchholz 21:05.6, 75. Luke Blanchard 22:04.4, 78. Brison Tuschl 22:40.2.
Girls’ Team Results: 1. Durand 33, 2. Glenwood City 37, 3. Colfax 86, 4. Spring Valley 121, 5. Prescott 123, 6. Elk Mound 156, 7. Ellsworth 199, 8. Clear Lake 219, 9. Boyceville 250.
Girls’ Individual Results: Colfax 1. Molly Heidorn 20:27.7, 11. Jasmine Best 22:42.5, 14. Aynsley Olson 23:10.2, 34. Juelia Berger 25:08.4, 36. Jillian Bowe 25:13.7, 52. Emilee Burcham-Scofield 26:21.6, 56. Jenna Goodell 26:29.1, 74. Jaclyn Olson 28:40.8; Elk Mound 23. Kristin Martinson 23:46.5, 27. Kyra Hadenfeldt 24:34.9, 41. Taya Schaefer 25:25.2, 45. Amber Best 25.59.2, 46. Laney Moyer 26:00.6, 57. Aleya Hadenfeldt 26:40.1.