Bison runners 4th, 5th at Cozad Invitational

COZAD -- The McCook High School boys and girls cross country teams placed fourth and fifth at the Cozad Invitational Thursday.

The Bison boys finished with 70 points and the girls tallied 75.

There were three McCook medalists.

Shawn McMurtrey finished sixth and Cody Martin 18th in the boys race. Rebecca Rawlings finished 16th in the girls race.

Three Bison runners finished just out of the medals. Ryan Ankerson was 21st in the boys race.Meghan Ecker was 21st and Emily Getchwentner 22nd in the girls race.

"Both the boys and girls did a great job for our first meet of the year," said McCook coach Tom Sughroue. "We had a lot of kids running in their first cross country meet yesterday and were not sure of what to expect. They had a great outing.

"The first two-thirds of the race everyone ran very well, but the last third seemed to give us a lot of trouble.

"I did expect that to be the case due to the fact that I have changed our workout from the past few years.

"Over the past few years we have been peaking to early in the season and seemed to go into a slump before districts. I have held back a little this fall hoping to delay the peak performances for districts."

Custer, Larson

place first at

Cambridge meet

CAMBRIDGE -- Cambridge's Kyle Custer and Eustis-Farnam's Megan Larson were the individual medalists at the Cambridge Cross Country Invitational on Thursday.

Custer finished with a time of 16:38.

Custer's teammate Grant Moore was second, coming in at 17:06, just ahead of fellow Trojan Michael McHale, who finished third.

Southwest's Burton Burton and Dundy County's Jordan Stroup round out the top five.

In the girls division, Megan Larson won with a 18:54 mark. Teammate Kyle-Lynn Hughs was 20 seconds behind to capture second place.

Cambridge's Kaitlin Deaver had the third best time of 19:31.

Dundy County runners Kiley Elwell and Megan Baird finished fourth and fifth respectively.

Eustis-Farnam, in a cooperative sponsorship this year with Medicine Valley, has six boys and five girls out this season.

Andrew Bellamy, Bronson Gerken, Malte Bieler and Jacob Sandman all ran.

Bellamy finished sixth. Janis Thalau and Jay Berg also run for the Knights.

In addition to first place Larson and second place Hughes, girls who run for Eustis-Farnam include Brooke Young, Megan Dunlap and Amanda Buenher.

Boys

1 Kyle Custer Cam 16:38

2 Grant Moore Cam 17:06

3 Michael McHale Cam 18:36

4 Burton Burton SW 19:02

5 Jordan Stroup DC 19:18

6 Andrew Bellamy EF 20:14

7 Devon Crawford SW 20:20

8 Adam Brewer SW 20:49

9 Joseph McHale Cam 20:54

10 Brandon Shirkey DC 21:07

Girls

1 Megan Larson EF 18:54

2 Kyle-Lynn Hughes EF 19:14

3 Kaitlin Deaver Cam 19:31

4 Kiley Elwell DC 19:46

5 Megan Baird DC 19:51

6 Megan Dunlap EF 20:12

7 Brooke Young EF 20:54

8 Shannon Macke Cam 21:24

9 Lisa Daffer SW 21:47

10 Brittany White May 21:59

Oberlin girls, boys place

third, seventh at Norton meet

NORTON -- The Oberlin girls cross country team placed third and the boys seventh at the Norton Invitational.

Andy Leitner was the Red Devils' top boys runner. He finished 19th with a time of 21:36.

Molly Coleman finished 11th and Whitney Beinke 12th for the girls.

"We will learn from this experience and improve down the road," said Oberlin coach Dick Ahlberg. "Our girls showed that they will be competitive this season."

Oberlin will be in action Sept. 9 at Quinter.

Boys Team Scores

1 Norton 48

2 Wheatland 57

3 Trego 92

4 Phillipsburg 103

5 Hoxie 112

6 Ness City 112

7Oberlin 145

8 Ellis 170

Girls Team Scores

1 Wheatland 35

2 Trego 42

3 Oberlin 65

4 Phillipsburg

5 Hoxie

6 Norton

7 Ness City

8 Ellis

Oberlin Boys

19 Andy Leitner 21:36

24 Teryn Grafel 22:16

35 Kellen Doeden 23:50

38 Zeke Ruzicka 24:21

41 Brent Stallman 24:44

47 Scott Miller 26:12

Oberlin Girls

11 Molly Coleman*

12 Whitney Beinke*

21 Amy Grace

22 Tawni Davis

*Medal Winners