Sports Editor

Without their top runners, the Williston boys and girls cross country teams probably didn't do as well as they could have in the Heen-Ihmels Invitational at the Williston Municipal Golf Course Thursday.

However, the teams did a little better than their coaches may have expected.

“We had an outstanding day, we had three younger girls move up and they all ran great, I was happy with the whole crew,” said Coyote girls coach Al Knutson, whose team finished fourth in the girls varsity race. “With all the distractions of a Homecoming week, the float building, the band, the parades, it's just hectic, and we performed as well as we ever have on Homecoming week.”

The girls were once again without last year's No. 1 runner, Kilee Sundt, who has been out all season with a back problem. She ran last week, but couldn't go again this week. “We're just hoping she can somehow get back for us for the state race,” said Knutson. The Williston boys ended fifth in the varsity race.

“Surprisingly, we were in the hunt, we ended fifth, but were only six spots out of third,” said Coyote boys coach Clint Chamberlin.

The boys were without No. 1 runner Joe Kemp, who had to drop out of last week's race with a sore leg, possibly due to tendinitis, but Chamberlin said they've had trouble nailing down the true source of the injury.

“The most important thing is we find a way to get Joe healthy, and as a team we need to get in a little better race shape,” said Chamberlin.

The next action for both Coyote teams will be the West Region meet at Souris Valley Golf Course in Minot Oct. 14.

Girls

Bismarck ran away with the team title with a score of 24, followed by Dickinson at 55 and Bowman at 76. Williston scored 109.

Leading the Williston charge was Whitney Harrison, who was eighth in 15:49. Hailey Horob, one of the junior high runners, finished just in front of teammate Mari Goldade as they finished 20th and 21st in 16:49 and 16:50, respectively.

Kristen Ceglowski and Danielle Clark, the other two younger runners to move up, placed 27th and 33rd at 17:00 and 17:09, respectively.

“Whitney and Mari had improved runs over last week, and 20 seconds between our second through fifth runners is pretty good,” said Knutson.

Also for the Coyotes, Angie Goebel was 51st at 18:02, Kiersten Kemp was 75th at 19:03, Andrea Thompson was 77th at 19:14, Cherisse Parker was 79th at 19:26 and Rachel Fearing was 86th at 19:45.

Tioga-Trinity Christian's Kelsey Lambrecht ran 43rd in 17:36.

Watford City finished eighth as a team led by Sibee Jokela who was 29th at 17:02, while Stephanie Deutsch was 35th at 17:18, Chelsey Moe was 57th at 18:15, Kristen Stenehjem was 67th at 18:48, Cora Wolff 78th at 19:14 and Jayme Johnson was 83rd at 19:36.

The Williston junior high girls had a strong day, taking first place in their race with 65 points, to edge Poplar at 70.

“They bunched up real well and ran exceptional with three of the girls running the varsity race,” said Knutson.

The Coyote girls finished with Shantha Trottier in 9th at 12:32, Brittney Bublitz 10th at 12:33, McKayla Nelson 11th at 12:34, Abbie Kemp 14th at 12:46 and Carly Crazy Bull 21st at 13:18.

Also for Williston, Sam Horack was 36th at 15:11, Mallory Nygard was 39th at 15:22, Rachel Anderson was 42nd at 15:32, Patricia Carnell was 44th at 16:07 and Kurrie Ellingson was 52nd at 18:44.

Leading the Williston runners was Riley Ceglowksi, who was running on her own under the Williston Badlands Track Club to run fifth in 12:19.

For T-TC, Shayna Ottenson was 44th at 16:07.

Varsity Girls

Team Totals

1, Bismarck 24. 2, Dickinson 55. 3, Bowman 76. 4, Williston 109. 5, New Town 166. 6, Killdeer 168. 7, Mandan 244. 8, Watford City 266. 9, Ft. Berthold 272. 10, Beulah 411. 11, Tioga-Trinity Christian 473. 12, Brockton 507. 13, Culbertson 529. 14, St. Michael 614.

Individual Results

1, Taylor Pintar (Bis) 15:12. 2, Brooklyn Beehler (Bis) 15:20. 3, Megan Kelly (Bow) 15:38. 4, Taylor Braunberger (Dik) 15:40. 5, Alana Fisher (Bis) 15:42. 6, Haley Anderson (Dik) 15:47. 7, Paige Hageness (Bis) 15:47. 8, Whitney Harrison (Will) 15:49. 9, Maddy Gendreau (Bis) 15:50. 10, Dakota Wolf (Dik) 16:00.

11, Erin Kelly (Bow) 16:19. 12, Karolyn Tuhy (Kill) 16:20. 13, Billie Herauf (Dik) 16:28. 14, Alexa Wachter (Bis) 16:36. 15, Heather Harder (Bow) 16:36. 16, Shanice Lambert (NT) 16:37. 17, Hope Baker (NT) 16:41. 18, Carolyne Kukla (Kill) 16:47. 19, Keisha Sparks (Bow) 16:46. 20, Hailey Horob (Will) 16:49.

21, Mari Goldade (Will) 16:50. 22, Ally Hoffman (Dik) 16:50. 3, Stormie Sickler (Dik) 16:53. 4, Taylor Miller (Man) 16:55. 5, Sammy Glatt (Bis) 16:55. 26, unknown (Dik) 16:57. 27, Kristen Ceglowski (Will) 17:00. 28, Megan Naico (Bow) 17:01. 29, Sibee Jokela (WC) 17:02. 30, Lindsay Achtenberg (Bis) 17:03.

31, Nicole Stuart (Bis) 17:08. 32, Lindsey Altringer (Man) 17:09. 33, Danielle Clark (Will) 17:09. 34, Amanda Love (Bis) 17:10. 35, Stephanie Deutsch (WC) 17:18. 36, Britta Anderson (Bis) 17:18. 37, Veronica Meade (FB) 17:19. 38, Skye Schaper (Kill) 17:21. 39, Hannah Metz (Dik) 17:27. 40, Alvina Wolf (NT) 17:28.

41, Shanyce Fredricks (Kill) 17:32. 42, Casie Gates (Bis) 17:33. 43, Kelsey Lambrecht (TTC) 17:36. 44, Jayli Fimbres (NT) 17:31. 45, Michelle Everett (FB) 17:40. 46, Becca Lebak (Bis) 17:41. 47, Heather Wolberg (Bis) 17:48. 48, Amy Faller (Bis) 17:51. 49, Haley Wolf (NT) 17:56. 50, Macy Iverson (NT) 18:00.

51, Angie Goebel (Will) 18:02. 52, Paige Miller (Bow) 18:07. 53, Shelby Pierce (Dik) 18:09. 54, Sara Nitschke (Man) 18:11. 55, Jenna Olson (Bow) 18:14. 56, Lisa Swanson (Bow) 18:15. 57, Chelsey Moe (WC) 18:15. 58, Krista Reich (Bis) 18:16. 59, Megan Klein (Kill) 18:17. 60, Mallory Wilson (FB) 18:17.

61, Tegan Miller (Bow) 18:19. 62, Taylor Myrick (FB) 18:21. 63, Katarina Nyberg (Man) 18:23. 64, Michelle Stearns (Bow) 18:37. 65, unknown (Bow) 18:37. 66, Leah Palmer (Bis) 18:39. 67, Kristen Stenehjem (WC) 18:48. 68, Amanda Meyers (FB) 18:54. 69, Hope Ruggles (Bow) 18:58. 70, Amanda Tivey (Bow) 18:59.

71, Stefanie Longtin (Man) 18:59. 72, Kayden Candrian (Beu) 19:01. 73, Sydney Becker (Bis) 19:02. 74, unknown (FB) 19:03. 75, Kiersten Kemp (Will) 19:03. 76, Hayley Schulz (Man) 19:10. 77, Andrea Thompson (Will) 19:14. 78, Cora Wolff (WC) 19:14. 79, Cherisse Parker (Will) 19:26. 80, Nicki McCrary (Bis) 19:26.

81, Naomi Rudolph (Beu) 19:30. 82, Anna Iverson (Beu) 19:33. 83, Jayme Johnson (WC) 19:36. 84, Jaime Schaeffer (Beu) 19:38. 85, McClody Bear (Brock) 19:42. 86, Rachel Fearing (Will) 19:45. 87, Anna Voigt (Kill) 19:52. 88, Kylie Overson (Kill) 19:56. 89, Brett (St.M) 19:58. 90, Anna Christensen (Man) 20:12.

91, Tugs Spotted Horse (FB) 20:21. 92, Kelsey Kraft (Beu) 20:22. 93, Samantha Holzer (Bow) 20:56. 94, Paige Schaper (Beu) 20:59. 95, Teagan (St.M) 21:01. 96, Kelsey Reimnitz (Bis) 21:09. 97, Kristin Hovey (Bis) 21:17. 98, Hollyn Brekke (Man) 21:48. 99, Andrea Damm (Culb) 22:28. 100, Shashawna Hosie (FB) 22:33.

101, Loretta Adam (Brock) 23:11. 102, Miranda Coron (Bow) 23:35. 103, Emily Risch (Bis) 23:38. 104, Whitney Hosie (FB) 27:11. 105, Angeline Seewalker (FB) 27:51.

Jr. High Girls

Team Totals

1, Williston 65. 2, Poplar 70. 3, Dickinson Hagen 98. 4, Wolf Point 119. 5, Bowman 141. 6, Brockton 168. 7, Ft. Berthold 192. 8, Culbertson 220. 9, Killdeer 230. 10, St. Mary's (Estevan) 240. 11, Twin Buttes (Halliday) 248. 12, Tioga-Trinity Christian 262.

Boys

New Town's Patrick Wolf led the varsity race winning easily in 16:19, followed by teammate Josh Kirkaldie in 17:03 and Williston's Tanner Goldade was third at 17:12.

Bismarck won the team title with a 75 total, while Williston scored 92 for fifth.

Running second for the Coyotes was Mark Anderson, who placed fifth at 17:24, while Justin Stewart was 22nd at 18:27, Jay Borseth was 24th at 18:31 and Aaron Hanson was 38th at 19:03, and Stuart Nygard was 49th at 19:43. “We had three guys run really well and three didn't,” said Chamberlin without elaborating, but he did say Goldade ran tough despite feeling a bit under the weather.

Watford City finished 10th as a team led by Casey Jore, who was 56th in 20:02, followed by Dustin Zubke in 60th at 20:17, Shae Helling 61st at 20:31, Zane Frick 66th at 25:23 and Chans Brown 67th at 28:11.

In the JV race, the Williston squad was ninth with four runners as Kenton Carnell was 39th at 23:14, Daniel Bickler was 47th at 24:06, Michael Hanson was 50th at 24:21 and Max Longtin was 52nd at 24:49.

For T-TC, Kyle Haustveit was 22nd at 20:32, David Wonser was 46th at 24:05, Andrew Wellumson was 48th at 24:14 and Phillip Wolla was 56th at 25:50.

In the junior high boys race, the Coyotes finished 13th with just two runners as Thomas Goebel was 27th in 12:46 and John Oleksik was 59th in 18:42.

T-TC had one runner in Joshua Olson who was fifth at 11:35, and Watford City had one runner in Jason Shipman, who was 30th at 13:06.

Varsity Boys

Team Totals

1, Bismarck 75. 2, Dickinson 77. 3, Minot 86. 4, New Town 89. 5, Williston 92. 6, Ft. Berthold 112. 7, Mandan 140. 8, Bowman 205. 9, Brockton 308. 10, Watford City 310. 11, Culbertson 330.

Individual Results

1, Patrick Wolf (NT) 16:19. 2, Josh Kirkaldie (NT) 17:03. 3, Tanner Goldade (Will) 17:12. 4, Andrew Reichenberger (Bis) 17:18. 5, Mark Anderson (Will) 17:24. 6, Lyle Witham (Bis) 17:31. 7, Jake Braunberger (Dik) 17:35. 8, Tyler Luraas (Dik) 17:39. 9, Josh Beaudoin (Min) 17:45. 10, Justin Many Ribs (FB) 17:53.

11, Brent Flaa (Man) 18:01. 12, Jeremy Grinnell (NT) 18:03. 13, Jessie Many Ribs (FB) 18:05. 14, Zachary Davis (Dik) 18:10. 15, Chris Johnson (Min) 18:10. 16, Matt Johnson (Min) 18:13. 17, Layne Nordquist (Min) 18:15. 18, Josh Hinz (Bis) 18:18. 19, Devin Yellow Wolf (FB) 18:20. 20, Tom Backstrom (Bis) 18:22.

21, Pat Blair (Man) 18:23. 22, Justin Stewart (Will) 18:27. 23, Brandon Seiler (Dik) 18:30. 24, Jay Borseth (Will) 18:31. 25, Quincy Pierce (Dik) 18:35. 26, Michael DeVille (FB) 18:36. 27, Dion Schulz (Bis) 18:37. 28, Jacob Schafer (Man) 18:38. 29, Dylan Hildebrand (Min) 18:38. 30, Theo Crowe (Brock) 18:39.

31, David Dobbs (NT) 18:41. 32, Kyle Messer (Man) 18:43. 33, Greg Hanson (Dik) 18:45. 34, Logan Hippe (Dik) 18:46. 35, Jeremiah Harder (Bow) 18:51. 36, John Scharzwalter (Bow) 18:51. 37, Matt Meine (Min) 19:00. 38, Aaron Hanson (Will) 19:03. 39, Austin Simonieg (Dik) 19:06. 40, Brett Erickson (Bis) 19:08.

41, Brian Moser (Bow) 19:18. 42, Steven Siverson (Bow) 19:20. 43, Kota Lyson (NT) 19:21. 44, Remington Zacher (FB) 19:22. 45, Alex Baker (NT) 19:23. 46, Lance Shuler (Bis) 19:24. 47, Dane Hammer (Min) 19:25. 48, Nick Binstock (Man) 19:33. 49, Stuart Nygard (Will) 19:43. 50, David Stroh (Bis) 19:48.

51, unknown (Bow) 19:49. 52, Jackson Bolstad (Cul) 19:52. 53, Brad O'Hearn (Min) 19:54. 54, Garrett Brown (Dik) 19:55. 55, Sam Livingston (Min) 20:01. 56, Casey Jore (WC) 20:02. 57, Mike Young Bird Jr. (NT) 20:11. 58, Dylan Schafer (Man) 20:14. 59, Daron Hohbein (Man) 20:16. 60, Dustin Zubke (WC) 20:17.

61, Shae Helling (WC) 20:31. 62, Aaron Larson (Min) 20:32. 63, Patrick Stanley (NT) 20:40. 64, James Belohlavek (Man) 21:03. 65, Brennan Dyk (Bow) 21:13. 66, Zane Frick (WC) 25:23. 67, Chans Brown (WC) 28:11.

JV Boys

Team Totals

1, Beulah 37. 2, Killdeer 72. 3, Bowman 74. 4, Bismarck 80. 5, Ft. Berthold 120. 6, Mandan 162. 7, Dickinson 208. 8, Tioga-Trinity Christian 232. 9, Williston 248. 10, St. Michael 281. 11, Minot 181. 12, Culbertson 301.

Jr. High Boys

Team Totals

1, Minot Ramstad 68. 2, Minot Hagen 91. 3, St. Mary's (Estevan) 128. 4, Wolf Point 142. 5, Ft. Berthold 152. 6, St. Michael 154. 7, Culbertson 160. 8, Bowman 163. 9, Poplar 195. 10, Tioga-Trinity Christian 255. 11, Mandaree 261. 12, Dickinson 263. 13, Williston 272. 14, Watford City 280. 15, Killdeer 284. 16, Brockton 288.