Red Oak boys race to fourth place finish at Creston XC

Creston crowded the course with a two-class, six-division cross country meet that included more than 20 schools.

Red Oak team competed in the A class, and the boys finished fourth of 10 while the girls placed ninth of 10. Creston gave out medals for those placing in the top 25, which included Baylor Bergren, Justin McCunn, Bruce Lukehart, Luis Galicia, and Nolan Blackman in the boys division, and Alexa McCunn on the girls side.

Southwest Valley boys placed eighth and Essex ninth in the Class B division; Southwest Valley girls finished in sixth place; and Griswold boys competed in the B class, but did not have enough runners to field a team.

Medalists from the smaller school class included Sydney Davis, Aubrey Boswell, Julia Means, Adam Harris, Brayden Avila, and Trent Newton from Southwest Valley

Varsity

Boys Class A team scoring: 1- Atlantic 49; 2- Harlan 83; 3- Lewis Central 91; 4- Red Oak 111; 5- Winterset 115; 6- Clarinda 136; 7- Glenwood 146; 8- Shenandoah 202; 9- Creston 205; 10- Chariton 311. 

Boys Class B team scroing: 1- Earlham 26; 2- Nodaway Valley 32; 3-Bedford 97; 4- Mount Ayr 130; 5- CAM 142; 6- East Union 156; 7- Orient-Macksburg 164; 8- Southwest Valley 169; 9- Essex 255.

Red Oak results: 8-  Bergren 18:12.1; 11- McCunn 18:25; 25- Lukehart 19:23.3; 33- Kaden Johnson 19:36.3; 34- Connor Koppa 19.38; 44- Avery Graham 20:05.1; 51- Caden Hall 20:35.3.

Southwest Valley: 20- A. Harris 21:09; 32- Blake Venteicher 23:06.4; 37- Raymond Harris 24:22.9; 38- Garrett Marn 24:26.6; 42- Firuz Kholov 25:20.5; 51- Daniel Maddox 27:27; 54- Jay Khositanon 29:14.4.

Essex: 45- Gabriel Fort 25:48.6; 49- Wesley Johnson 27:18.1; 50- Jacob Robinette 27:25.4; 55- Dylan Barrett 29:25.2; 56- Preston Driskell 32:42.2; 57- Brice Sederburg 32:42.4.

Griswold: 34- Jeremy Sheeder 22:35.3; 39- Adam Houser 23:03.

Girls

Class A team scoring: 1- Harlan 35; 2- Glenwood 81; 3- Atlantic 110; 4- Winterset 121; 5- Creston 122; 6- Chariton 165; 7- Lewis Central 167; 8- Shenandoah 216; 9- Red Oak 221; 10- Clarinda 242.

Class B team scoring: 1- Nodaway Valley 35; 2- Earlham 36; 3- Mount Ayr 71; 4- CAM 119; 5- East Union 123; 6- Southwest Valley 126.

Red Oak results: 17- McCunn 22:16.6; 24- Chloe DeVries 23:12.5; 51- Cam Bass 25:46.8; 61- Aedynn Graham 27:00.6; 68- Eva Sherman 28:52.3; 69- Libby Mensen 28:56.8; 70- Rhenn Rolenc 29:07. 

Southwest Valley: 17- Davies 25:48.6; 21- Boswell 25:58.8; 24- Halle Pearson 26:18.9; 29- Sydney Westlake 27:50.2; 35- Abbie Wetzel 31:29.4; 37- Bella Johnson 32:56.5; 39- Anjali Kathikar 38:05.5

JV

Boys Class A team scoring: 1- Winterset 52; 2- Glenwood 56; 3- Lewis Central 60; 4- Atlantic 95; 5- Red Oak 142; 6- Shenandoah 165; 7- Harlan 171; 8- Creston 231.

Boys Class B team scoring: 1- Earlham 15.

Red Oak results: 2-Galicia 20:42.5; 6- Blackman 20:55.9; 37- Ethan Horn 23:13.4; 48- Xavier Ross 25:36.4; 49- Chino Lepe 25:40.2; 50- Aidan Eubank 26:06.2; 51- Brandon VanHoose 27:23.3.

Southwest Valley: 8- Avila 29:53.5; 9-  Newton 30:48.4.

Girls Class A team scoring: 1- Harlan 18; 2- Winterset 58; 3- Creston 84; 4- Chariton 85; 5- Atlantic 159; 6- Lewis Central 165; 7- Shenandoah 193; 8- Red Oak 196.

Class B team scoring: 1- Earlham 15.

Red Oak results: 31- Madison Bruce 29:43.6; 36- Delaney Hall 30:00.8; 40- Cami Porter 30:19.2; 43- Tessa Rolenc 31:12.4; 46- Michelle Grass 32:44.6; 49- Mya Southwell 36:57.4; 52- Lindsey Porter 42:15.8.

Southwest Valley: 15- Means 43:53.3.

“The Timberwolves finished the night with six medalists, six new PRs, and a number of season best times,” Southwest Valley head coach Jason Hults said. “I was very happy to see the times coming down with the new PRs and the other kids who ran season best times. As we are at the midpoint of our season, it’s good to see those times starting to improve. We need to continue to push ourselves as we look toward the conference and state qualifying meets in October.”

Junior High

Boys team scoring: 1- Glenwood 36; 2- Winterset 61; 3- Clarinda 73; 4- Atlantic 83; 5- Earlham 125; 6- Creston 203; 7- Red Oak 228; 8- Essex 230; 9- Chariton 238; 10- Southwest Valley 243.

Red Oak results: 34- Joshua LeRette 15:15.6; 42- Jason Lovegrove 15:48.4; 43- Ty Jenkins 15:57.1; 50 Kaiden Allison 16:34.5; 59- Tyler Beeson 19:58.1; 63- Jacob Brower 20:16.7; 64- Weston Gettler 22:51.

Essex: 36- Tony Racine 15:20.6; 38- Simon Showalter 15:30.1; 40- Johnny Resh 15:40.3; 51- Caden Robinette 16:42; 65- Isaac Johnson 24:21.9.

Southwest Valley: 19- Paul Douglas 14:19.7; 49- Colten Pegg 16:18.9; 52- Ethan James 16:47.7; 61- Matthew Means 20:15.7; 62- JP Jones 20:16.7.

Girls team scoring: 1- Glenwood 26; 2- Atlantic 58; 3- Creston 85; 4- Clarinda 99; 5- Winterset 124; 6- CAM 165; 7- Nodaway Valley 188; 8- Southwest Valley 195. 

Southwest Valley results: 29- Ashlynn Reser 17:47.5; 31- Kya Newton 18:07.8; 40 Megan Ramsey 20:18.8; 47- Maddi McCoy 22:20.2; 48- Mariah Sparks 22:21.7; 49- Sophia Johnson 22:23.2; 52- Tegan Hoyt 24:16.9/ 87- Natalie True 26:48.3; 88- Lauren Iman 26:49.8.

Red Oak: 52- Grace Koppa 19:27.8; 63- Lilly Lewis 20:49.4; 70- Syriana Spann 21:54.6. 

Griswold: 58- Joy Smith 20:03.4; 78- Maddie Tischer 23:42; 80- Shelby Anderson 24:04.9.

Stanton: 85- Victoria Miner 24:45.5.