Marion Girls Cross Country

Forstner, Bach run 3rd for Marion

CENTER POINT - Colton Forstner and Madison Bach of Marion High School finished third in their races at the Stormin' Pointer Invitational cross country meet in Center Point Tuesday.

Josh Yeager of Center Point-Urbana won the boys race in 16 minutes, 18 seconds. Forstner placed third in 16:33 to help the Indians finish second in the team standings behind Center Point-Urbana.

Becca McDermott of Cascade captured the girls race in 15 minutes, 25 seconds. Bach placed third in 15:41 to help Marion finish third in the team standings behind Cascade and North Linn.

STORMIN' POINTER INVITATIONAL

Center Point

BOYS RESULTS

Team Standings

1. Center Point-Urbana 33, 2. Marion 41, 3. Hudson 144, 4. Cascade 147, 5. Dunkerton 161, 6. Jesup 183, 7. Springville/Central City 192, 8. Anamosa 203, 9. North Linn 229, 10. Edgewood-Colesburg 229, 11. Alburnett 235, 12. East Buchanan 250.

Medalist - Josh Yeager, Center Point-Urbana, 16:18

Marion - 3. Colton Forster 16:33, 8. Austin Yirkovsky 17:36, 9. Myles Bach 17:38, 10. Jeremy Fopma 17:38, 11. Jacob Manderscheid 17:41, 17. Hunter Reifschneider 18:06, 31. Justin Arebaugh 19:00.

GIRLS RESULTS

Team Standings

1. Cascade 60, 2. North Linn 70, 3. Marion 98, 4. Center Point-Urbana 104, 5. Anamosa 106, 6. Hudson 108, 7. Springville-Central City 162 8. Edgewood-Colesburg 164, 9. East Buchanan 267.

Medalist - Becca McDermott, Cascade, 15:25

Marion - 3. Madison Bach 15:41, 20. Skylar Dede 16:54, 22. Sydney Brase 17:17, 24. Andrea Ertz 17:18, 29. Ellie Conzett 17:56, 31. Jessica Ertz 18:00.

VanDraska takes 6th at Heartland Classic

AMES - Tysen VanDraska of Prairie placed sixth at the prestigious Heartland Classic cross country race in Ames Saturday.

The Hawks finished fourth out of 25 teams in the race. Thomas Pollard of Gilbert was the individual champion in 15 minutes, 37 seconds. Sioux Falls (S.D.) Lincoln was the team champion.

The Linn-Mar Lions placed ninth. Daniel Murphy led the Lions in 10th place.

Amber Decker led Linn-Mar to a ninth-place showing in the girls race by finishing 17th overall. Jordyn Kieve of Johnston was the winner and led Johnston to the team championship.

BOYS RACE

Prairie - 6. Tysen VanDraska 16:21, 13. Jake Moore 16:44, 36. Zack Fiser 17:13, 41. Chris Oehlert 17:18, 61. Matt Lorenz 17:40.

Linn-Mar - 10. Daniel Murphy 16:26, 14. Ryan Murphy 16:45, 49. Bryan Fogerty 17:23, 72. Grant Chlystun 17:48, 96. Dalton Gosch 18:10.

Washington - 58. Sam Eck 17:39, 107. Finbar Berry 18:19, 115. Sam Werner 18:29, 117. Wyatt Forster 18:31, 120. Ryan Miller 18:36.

GIRLS RACE

Linn-Mar - 17. Amber Decker 15:30, 23. Maddie Saville 15:37, 41. Deanna Newhouse 15:57, 67. Rachel Bohnenkamp 16:18, 77. Sydney Johnston 16:29.

Prairie - 76. Sarah Meyers 16:29, 81. Kirstin Skriver 16:33, 100. Alissa Neubauer 16:54, 104. Victoria Enyart 16:59, 110. Eilish Stanek 17:04.

Forster races to title in Cascade

CASCADE - Colton Forster of Marion won the Cascade Invitational cross country race in 17 minutes, 7 seconds on Friday.

Forster claimed the title by 15 seconds. Mount Vernon/Lisbon nipped Marion for the team championship in the Class 3A-4A standings, 37-42. The Xavier Saints placed fourth, led by Steven Culpepper in sixth place.

Madison Bach of Marion placed fourth in the girls race. Jenny Dickes of Xavier was fifth.

BOYS 3A-4A RESULTS

Team Standings

1. Mount Vernon/Lisbon 37, 2. Marion 42, 3. Western Dubuque 71, 4. Xavier 88, 5. DeWitt Central 163, 6. West Delaware 175, 7. Assumption 180, 8. Maquoketa 209.

Top 5 Individuals

1. Colton Forster, Marion     17:07

2. Nolan Teubel, Mt Vernon    17:22

3. Reid Smock, Mt Vernon      17:26

4. Isaac Connolly, W.Dubuque  17:35

5. Alex Behnke, W.Dubuque     17:40

Marion: 1. Colton Forster 17:07, 8. Myles Bach 17:50, 9. Austin Yirkovsky 17:55, 10. Jeremy Fopma 17:58, 14. Jacob Manderscheid 18:08.

Xavier: 6. Steven Culpepper 17:43, 16. Nick Koechner 18:22, 17. Johnathan Francois 18:25, 24. Evan Gradoville 19:06, 25. John Pape 19:16.

GIRLS 3A-4A RESULTS

Team Standings

1. Assumption 27, 2. Western Dubuque 74, 3. Xavier 107, 4. Marion 107, 5. West Delaware 108, 6. Center Point-Urbana 112, 7. DeWitt Central 122.

Top 5 Individuals

1. Joy Ripslinger, Assumption     15:45

2. Mallory King, Assumption       16:31

3. Julia Schumacher, Assumption   16:36

4. Madison Bach, Marion           16:41

5. Jenny Dickes, Xavier           16:57

Xavier: 5. Jenny Dickes 16:57, 17. Kiana Stanek 18:10, 18. Emiko Coffey 18:16, 31. Lydia Brown 18:54, 36. Faith Satern 19:20.

Marion: 4. Madison Bach 16:41, 20. Sydney Brase 18:22, 23. Skylar Dede 18:29, 27. Andrea Ertz 18:51, 33. Ellie Conzett 18:59.

Murphy runs away at Prairie Invy

The last time Daniel Murphy ran in a high school cross country race, he collapsed at the Class 4A state meet in Fort Dodge and ended up in a hospital.

Saturday was much, much better.

Murphy ran away with top honors at the 30th Prairie Invitational and shattered the meet record in 15 minutes, 26 seconds for the 5K course.

The Linn-Mar senior beat Tysen VanDraska of Prairie by 11 seconds in the field of 17 schools and 119 individuals.

"I was not expecting that, honestly," Murphy said after his convincing victory. "Me and Tysen were battling a lot. I'm going to take it. It's a P.R. (personal record)."

Murphy was one of the top runners for the Linn-Mar varsity last year as a junior, but he suffered from dehydration and perhaps a virus at the state meet and finished 115th and last in 19 minutes, 43 seconds.

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