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            The Osmond cross country teams opened their season at Hartington on Thursday August 26^th.  The boy’s finished in third place in the team race five points behind runner-up Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Champion Battle Creek in the eleven team field.  The Tiger junior varsity team finished in eighth place.

          The cloudy warm day saw the Tigers off to a good start as Gavin Geneski held third place through the first mile and a half before stepping in a hole ending his day.  A group of Tigers maintained positions in the late 20 and 40’s.  Heading to the finish gate Karter Johnson passed three runners to finish in 11^th place at 20:25.58.  Close behind was Caleb Miller in his first 5K race.  He finished in 14^th place in a time of 20:28.30 with Robert on his heels in 15^th place in 20:36.14. Dominic True, also in his first 5K race finished 23^rd in 21:42.70 followed by Kaden Polt in 29^th place in a time of 22:44.07. Hartington’s Carson Noecker won the race at 16:34.94.

          Bodie True led the next pack finishing in 37^th place in a time of 23:30.21, Hunter Beacom in 39^th place and Hudson Schultze in 40^th place.  Hunter’s time was 23:34.18 and Hudson covered the distance in 23:34.46.  James Doyle was 45^th and Matthew Alderson 46th in times of 23:52.27 and 23:59.54 respectively.

          The Tiger girl’s came in 9^th and 21^st, as Keli Aschoff finished her first 5K race in ninth place in a time of 25:54.36.  Riley Wagner covered the distance in 30:17.50 for her twenty-first place finish.  Kairece Morris of Pender won the race in 23:23.53.

          In the junior high girl’s division Rachel Harder finished 6^th for the Tigers in a time 9:03.89 for the 2000 meter distance.  Teammate Charley Aschoff was right behind Rachel for seventh place in 9:06.34.   For the boy’s Donivan Heiman finished in 17^th place with a time of 9:01.52.  Teammate Kooper Gubbels placed 24^th in 9:41.60.

          “I thought we ran well in the warm and humid conditions” noted Coach Joe Ortmeier. “We have a ways to go with our conditioning, but the kids showed a lot of courage and competed hard.”

Boy’s Team Scores:

1^st      38      Battle Creek

2^nd     47      Laurel-Concord-Coleridge

3^rd      52      Osmond

4^th      57      Hartington-Newcastle

5^th      97      Pender

6^th      110    Winnebago

7^th      116    Ponca         

8^th      132    Osmond JV

9^th      147    Randolph

10^th    154    Homer

11^th    216    Laurel-Concord-Coleridge JV