NM Girls Third, Boys Seventh at C-M

COLFAX – North Mahaska’s cross country teams continue to perform well this season. The teams made the trek to Colfax-Mingo Thursday and came away with a third place for the girls and seventh for the boys. Jade DeBoef garnered a fifth place finish in the junior high race.

Jedlicka and Ava Huffman again placed in the top 10 with Jedlicka running sixth in 21 minutes 38.6 seconds. Woodward-Granger’s Eva Fleshner won the race in 19:58.50. Huffman placed ninth with a time of 22:15.40.

Although Jedlicka and Huffman finished sixth and ninth overall, they were given fifth and seventh place points as some teams did not have enough runners for a team score.

Alivia Schock ran 25th overall in 26:01.5 (18th); Amber Knockel was 28th in 26:41.30 (20); Breckyn Schilling and Abby Van Weelden finished tied for 29th in 27:01.7. Schilling scored 21st and Van Weelden 22nd.

Grandview Christian won the team race with 43 points followed by Collins-Maxwell with 53, NM with 71, Woodward-Granger 79 and Colfax-Mingo 89.

Ben Yang’s 12th place finish to lead the Warhawks with Axl Patterson running 16th in 19:39.30. Maddox Wynja came in at 21st but earned 19th in 19:56.80. Kincaid Mitchell earned 37th in 20:58.70 and Jeb Goemaat was 52nd in 22:34.86. Running but not scoring was Cain Grandia, who finished in 23:01.3.

Grand View Christian also won the boys race with 75 points. Baxter was second with 80 followed by Woodward-Granger 91; Collins-Maxwell 113; Colfax-Mingo 127; Clarke 133; North Mahaska 136; Woodward Academy 176 and Newton was 10th with 266.

All four junior high girls finished in the top 30. DeBoef ran fifth in 11:37.70. Aiyla Ray placed 21st in 13:21.20; Addelynn Jedlicka 27th in 14:13.86; and Mallory Schippers was 29th in 14:25.0.

North Mahaska will run at Knoll Ridge Country Club on Tuesday in a meet hosted by English Valleys.