Thursday September 26^th the Osmond Cross Country teams traveled to the Lakeview Country Club near Gavin’s Point Dam for the Crofton Invitational.  Another quality field of teams including class B South Sioux City readied for the race.  Ninety-five runners sprinted from the line at the horn. 

          In the middle of the race Osmond runners had moved up to positions 9, 10 and 11 before the competition caught up to them.  At the finish gate Johnson Chishiba places 16^th (18:27.71), Graysen Schultze 17^th (18:36.79), and Mason Bykerk 18^th (18:38.06).  Carson Noecker of Hartington won the race in 16:37.04 and Connor Arens of Crofton was second in a time of 17:26.52.

          Tiger Ryan Schmit came in 25^th (19:13.76), Aaron Chishiba 29^th (19:27.76) and Octavio Palacios placed 37^th (19:58.98).  South Sioux City won the team race with a score of 20 and Hartington-Newcastle was second with 42 and the Tigers were fifth with 71 points.

          In the boy’s JV race Robert Aschoff was the top Osmond runner placing 11^th (20:53.91), Zach Alderson was 12^th (20:54.15), Kaden Polt 15^th (20:59.74) and Bodie True 20^th (22:07.67).  The second group of four was led by Keaton Timmerman in 26^th place (22:45.64), Karter Johnson 30^th (23:21.21), Hunter Beacom right behind in 31^st (23:21.30), and Connor vonRentzell in 34^th (26:24.08). The Junior Varsity team finished in third behind South Sioux City and Hartington-Newcastle.

          In the girl’s race of 55 runners Riley Wagner was the top Osmond finisher in 21^st place (25:57.26), Hayle Krienert 29^th (26:56.35) and Lexi Beacom next at 30^th place (27:03.65) and Jozie Kumm  finished in 39^th place (30:25.95).  The Tigers scored 106 points for 7^th place.  Bloomfield/Wausa won with 16 and Hartington-Newcastle second scored 31 points.

          “This is a tough group of runners on a challenging course” noted Coach Joe Ortmeier, “I had hoped we would run better than we did, but this will help us down the road.”

          The junior high girl’s were runner-up in their division behind Crofton and in front of South Sioux City.  Tiger Keli Aschoff finished in 4^th place (8:25.44) on the 2000 meter course.  Erica Heiman was 9^th (9:09.14) followed by Caydence Krienert in 10^th place (9:23.21), Juliana Kumm was 12^th (9:35.19) followed by Brianna Kumm in 14^th place (9:49.35). 

          In the boy’s division James Doyle finished 12^th (7:39.47) and Cody Gansebom 39^th (9:13.11) in the 51 runner field.

Team Scores:

Varsity Boys               Varsity Girls                JV Boys                      JH Girls

1^st        20 SSC                        16 BLM/WAU            12 SSC                        20 CRO

2^nd        42 H-N                        31 H-N                        27 H-N                        25 OSM

3^rd        63 NC                         64 SSC                        46 OSM                      35 SSC Middle

4^th        69 BRLD                    71 CRO                      

5^th        71 OSM                      89 SUMS

6^th        93 CRO                       89 NC

7^th        128 SUM                    106 OSM

8^th        152 NEL                     129 BRLD

9^th        165 LCC