(Treynor, IA) — Treynor girls cross country won a district title on their home course while Red Oak’s Emmanuel Grass was the boys individual winner in a Class 2A Cross Country State Qualifying meet on Thursday.
Lily Miller of Treynor won the girls race and was the only one who went under 20 minutes at 19:47.78. Also for the Cardinals, Madalyn Kerkmann was 3rd at 20:40.84 and Anne Miller was 4th at 20:43.54. Taylor Heithoff of Kuemper Catholic qualified for state in 9th place at 20:59.76; Ava O’Rourke qualified in 10th (21:04.07); and Malory Jenkins of Red Oak qualified in 13th (21:32.42).
Irelyn Drea of Treynor finished in 16th (21:49.83); Jenna King of Clarinda 22nd (22:25.10); Kadence Kotrous of Treynor 23rd (22:34.83); Susie Babe of Shenandoah 25th (22:54.84). Ally Adams had the best finish for Underwood in 30th (23:25.43).
Treynor finished in first place in the girls team standings with 47 points while PCM was 2nd with 66 and Pella Christian third with 80 — the top three teams qualify for state.
Complete Girls results: Click HERE
Grass won the boys race at 16:31.96 with Will Vanden Bosch of Pella Christian a distant 2nd place at 16:48.44. Also for the Tigers, Hayden Hietbrink finished in 5th place (17:07.63) and Osiel Pedersen finished in 11th (17:32.96) and both made it to state. Mason Sells of Shenandoah qualified in 9th place at 17:26.14. Isaiah Stodgill of Clarinda qualified in 13th (17:39.610. Finally, Underwood’s Landon Leaders got the 15th and last qualifying spot at 17:41.96.
Shenandoah boys qualified as a team in 2nd place with 103 points while Pella Christian ran away with the team title with 27 points. The third qualifier came down to tiebreaker between Kuemper Catholic and PCM — the Knights 6th runner Oliver Vonnahme finished 32nd ahead of PCM’s 6th runner in 40th.
Complete Boys results: Click HERE
