Whitehall boys second at DC meet

The Whitehall boys cross country team finished second in the Dairyland Conference championship meet, hosted by Melrose-Mindoro last week Monday.

The meet was the first that included all of the DC schools as all previous meets had split the schools up. Whitehall had won almost all of its previous competitions, but Cochrane-Fountain City had four runners in the top six to edge the Norse. The Blair-Taylor boys team finished fourth, while the B-T girls took third and Independence/Gilmanton’s girls team was fifth.

The teams were set to compete in a sub-sectional held on Tuesday of this week at Osseo-Fairchild with a sectional competition slated for Saturday. Which teams or individuals compete and where the sectional will take place had yet to be decided as of press time.

DC Championship

Kevin Carroll took fourth to lead the Whitehall boys to a second-place finish.

Carroll finished behind two runners from C-FC and one from Augusta, then had two other C-FC runners come in right behind him as the Pirates won the team championship.

Payton Thompson, 10th, Nolan Thompson, 11th, and Junior Smith, 14th, gave the Norse three more top-15 finishes while Ben Mohan finished 18th and Gus Poulos was 20th.

Delorean Peterson gave B-T a top-10 finish by taking eighth in the race. He was followed by Anthony Oldendorf, 21st, Ryan Flynn, 26th, Riley McAdams, 27th, Urial Ortiz, 28th, and Easton Arneson, 29th.

I/G had three runners and Clay Herdahl finished 34th, Michael Onstad was 35th and Kevin Halvorson took 41st.

Thea McAdams took fourth for the B-T girls as they took third as a team. She was followed by Ella Halverson, 11th, McKenzie Brandenburg, 16th, Sophia Wallentin, 20th; Dena Maldonado, 23rd and Emmalee Johnson, 31st.

The I/G girls finished fifth as Leah Sylla led them with a 15th-place finish. Emma Pietreik took 22nd followed by Cora Sonsalla, 24th, Bianca Najera, 26th, Andi Lahen, 28th and Jaden Newman, 29th.

Whitehall had two runners with Olivia Killian finishing 13th and Brenna Clatt taking 40th.

Boys cross country, Dairyland Conference Championship meet, Oct. 12, at Melrose-Mindoro High School

C-FC 33 Whitehall 57 ECIL 102 B-T 110 Augusta 113 Mel-Min 134

Whitehall — Carroll, fourth, 18:13; P. Thompson, 10th, 20:25; N. Thompson, 11th, 20:35; Smith, 14th, 20:48; Mohan, 18th, 21:26; Poulos, 20th, 21:37

B-T — Peterson, eighth, 19:43; Oldendorf, 21st, 21:56; Flynn, 26th, 22:54; McAdams, 27th, 23:23.6; Ortiz, 28th, 23:23.7; Arneson, 29th, 23:49

I/G — Herdahl, 34th, 25:12; Onstad, 35th, 25:18; Halvorson, 41st, 26:08.

Girls cross country, Dairyland Conference Championship meet, Oct. 12, at Melrose-Mindoro High School

C-FC 27 Augusta 49 B-T 74 Alma Center Lincoln 75 I/G 115

B-T — McAdams, fourth, 22:17; Halverson, 11th, 24:43; Brandenburg, 16th, 25:15; Wallentin, 20th, 26:01; Maldonado, 23rd, 27:34; Johnson, 31st, 34:04

I/G — Sylla, 15th, 25:13; Pietrek, 22nd, 27:22; Sonsalla, 24th, 28:22; Najera, 26th, 30:05; Lahen, 28th, 31:09; Newman, 21:12

Whitehall — Killian, 13th, 23:36; Clatt, 40th, 36:00