Webster, Roncalli win 1A cross country titles; Cyclone boys qualify as team

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WEBSTER — The Webster Area Bearcats edged the Milbank Bulldogs by a scant two points to win the boys’ title at the Region 1A Cross Country Meet Thursday, on their home Webster Golf Course.
Aberdeen Roncalli earned the title in the girls’ race with 23 points and Milbank again finished second, with 37 points and Deuel finished third with 49. Clark-Willow Lake finished sixth in the girls’ race.
Webster Area ended with 31 points in the meet, while Milbank finished with 33. Clark-Willow Lake finished third with 37 points and earning a spot in next week’s Class “A” State Cross Country meet in the process.
Individually, Milbank’s Nick Batchelor won the boys’ race by nearly two minutes over Isaac Smith of Groton Area. Webster Area’s Drew Reetz was third. Clark-Willow Lake runners Brady Jordan, Charlie Spieker and Schuyler McElhone finished sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively for the Cyclones. Redfield’s Riley Whitley earned a spot in the state meet by finishing 11th in the region.
Kenzie Hamann of Deuel led the girls’ runners across the finish line for the individual title. Paige Schmidt of Roncalli finished second and Deuel’s Jaycee Hourigan finished third.
Danielle Batchelor of Clark-Willow Lake finished 13th and will run in the girls’ state meet, while Redfield’s Kyra Utecht finished one spot out of automatically qualifying.


Region 1A Cross Country

Boys
Team scores: 1, Webster Area, 31; 2, Milbank, 33; 3, Clark-Willow Lake, 37; 4, Deuel, 77; 5, Aberdeen Roncalli, 83; 6, Florence/Henry, 101; 7, Groton Area, 106.
Individual top-20 and area finishers
1 Batchelor, Nick 10 Milbank 16:46.12; 2 Smith, Isaac 11 Groton Area 18:23.44; 3 Reetz, Drew 9 Webster Area 18:34.74; 4 Kuecker, Maxwell 11 Webster Area 18:40.59; 5 Femling, Brady 12 Milbank 18:46.87; 6 Jordan, Brady 9 Clark/Willow Lake 18:53.08; 7 Spieker, Charlie 12 Clark/Willow Lake 18:54.81; 8 McElhone, Schuyler 11 Clark/Willow Lake 18:59.65; 9 Mork, Brian 12 Webster Area 19:01.47; 10 Bock, Zippy 12 Milbank 19:04.72; 11 Whitley, Riley 12 Redfield 19:12.44; 12 Tvedt, Tague 10 Deuel 19:14.05; 13 Berndt, Ricky 9 Deuel 19:17.77; 14 Paulson, Ethan 10 Florence/Henry 19:24.51; 15 Gough, Noah 10 Aberdeen Roncalli 19:25.83; 16 Dunse, Tayne 10 Webster Area 19:30.40; 17 Kvistad, Gunnar 10 Clark/Willow Lake 19:35.44; 18 Graham, Isaac 8 Milbank 19:40.16; 19 Griffen, Garrett 9 Aberdeen Roncalli 19:45.09; 20 Batchelor, James 8 Milbank 19:52.57; 21 McElhone, Mason 9 Clark/Willow Lake 19:59.88; 28 Kuno, Zachary 12 Clark/Willow Lake 20:22.65; 33 Rothacker, Derrek 10 Redfield 22:03.87
Girls
Team scores: 1, Aberdeen Roncalli, 23; 2, Milbank, 37; 3, Deuel, 49; 4, Webster Area, 64; 5, Florence/Henry, 77; 6, Clark-Willow Lake, 106; 7, Hamlin, 108.
Individual top-20 plus area finishers
1 Hamann, Kenzie 12 Deuel 21:05.84; 2 Schmidt, Paige 8 Aberdeen Roncalli 21:27.51; 3 Hourigan, Jaycee 7 Deuel 21:38.05; 4 Schmidt, Sarah 8 Aberdeen Roncalli 21:39.31; 5 Huwe, Rylee 9 Webster Area 21:40.57; 6 Schulte, Danica 12 Milbank 21:42.62; 7 Dosch, Lauren 9 Aberdeen Roncalli 21:46.47; 8 Street, Maurina 9 Milbank 21:55.05; 9 Sharp, Karli 9 Florence/Henry 21:58.00; 10 Helms, Jenna 12 Aberdeen Roncalli 22:03.17; 11 O’Farrell, Ashlyn 9 Milbank 22:05.20; 12 Speidel, Kynlee 8 Milbank 22:10.51; 13 Batchelor, Danielle 8 Clark/Willow Lake 22:11.41; 14 Neugebauer, Ellie 9 Milbank 22:16.72 ; 15 Schmidt, Anna 11 Aberdeen Roncalli 22:25.10; 16 Hegg, Ella 8 Webster Area 22:26.48; 17 Kuck, Halle 10 Aberdeen Roncalli 22:39.28; 18 Witt, Annie 10 Webster Area 23:04.86; 19 Muller, Griffyn 7 Florence/Henry 23:16.70; 20 Fraser, Zoie 10 Hamlin 23:27.53; 21 Utecht, Kyra 10 Redfield 23:39.25; 25 Evans, Ellie 9 Redfield 24:19.26; 31 Merkel, Katelyn 7 Clark/Willow Lake 25:47.11; 34 Maynard, Jordyn 10 Clark/Willow Lake 26:20.54; 37 Peterson, Grace 10 Clark/Willow Lake 27:21.82