Luverne's Dusty Antoine strides in front of Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton's Kale Wiertzema (left) and a Southwest Christian runner during the boys' varsity race at the Adrian Invitational Tuesday.By John RittenhouseThe Luverne girls’ cross country squad recorded its first meet win of the season at the Adrian Invitational Tuesday.The Cardinals tallied 41 points to best Murray County Central (70 points) in the team standings. Four other teams were incomplete.Luverne’s Lexi Heitkamp won her second consecutive individual title of the season by winning the varsity race in 16:60.Amanda Saum (sixth in 17:59), Kelsey Dooyema (eighth in 16:32), Kristy Heikes (11th in 19:11) and Victoria Arends (15th in 20:26) padded Luverne’s team performance. Justine Heintzman ran a time of 21:59 to finish 18th without influencing the team scoring.Adrian was one runner short of fielding a complete varsity team.Morgan Lynn finished a strong third with a time of 17:01 to pace the Dragons. Kelly Banck (ninth in 18:43), Sarah Kruger (17th in 21:29) and Megan Henning (19th in 21:38) also ran for AHS.Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton was represented by Cassi and Amanda Tilstra in the varsity field, placing fourth and 10th with respective 17:42 and 18:47 times.Luverne, Adrian and H-BC-E-E fielded complete boys’ varsity teams Tuesday.Southwest Christian (31 points), Luverne (53), H-BC-E-E (84), Adrian (101), Pipestone (140) and Southwest United (190) formed the field.Tom Ward led the Cardinals to their second-place finish by placing fourth in 18:52.Ruston Aaker (seventh in 19:17), Nick Otten (12th in 19:38), Jesson Vogt (13th in 19:40) and Thomas Pinkel (22nd in 20:56) made contributions to the team effort.Travis Halfmann (23rd in 21:30), Trevor Maine (28th in 22:01), Grant Oldre (34th in 21:19), Brent DeGroot (36th in 21:29), Craig Oeding (40th in 22:52), Michael Nelson (44th in 24:13), Eric Kraetsch (46th in 24:32), David Nelson (48th in 25:22) and Jerome Willers (49th in 25:50) ran the varsity race without impacting the team effort.Tyler Bush ran an outstanding race to win the varsity race for the H-BC-E-E boys with a time of 17:54.Todd Alberty (11th in 19:33), Kale Wiertzema (15th in 20:00), Derek Haak (24th in 21:24) and Adam Finke (33rd in 22:14).John Sandbulte (38th in 22:47), Devin DeBoer (42nd in 23:35), Jared Drenth (43rd in 23:41) and Michael Bos (45th in 24:18) ran without influencing the scoring for the Patriots.Brandon Bullerman led the host team by placing 14th in 20:00.Lee Stover (16th in 20:02), Paul Honerman (19th in 20:20), Pete Jensen (25th in 21:26) and Ethan Wieneke (27th in 21:55) chipped in to Adrian’s team performance.David Brake (29th in 22:04), Aaron Mormann (30th in 22:11), Kelly Seeman (39th in 22:48), Kyle Knips (41st in 43:07), Dustin Lonneman (47th in 25:03), Michal Barrie (51st in 26:58), Eldon Vaselaar (52nd in 27:02) and Trent Lutmer (57th in 31:57) ran the varsity race without scoring for AHS.Here is a look at the junior high individual results from the meet.Junior high girlsAdrian: Hailee Heitkamp, eighth, 6:45.H-BC-E-E: Rayna Sandoval, third, 6:56; Amanda Connors, fourth, 6:56; Jill Weitgenant, sixth, 6:59; Darian Herman, eighth, 11:54.Luverne: Kayla Raddle, first, 6:07; Amanda Kannas, second, 6:19.Junior high boysH-BC-E-E: Dustin Verhey, first, 6:17; Cody Penning, 11th, 6:59; Steven Harsma, 12th, 7:01; Grant Hoogendoorn, 16th, 7:23; Luke Tiesler, 18th, 7:26; Derek Drenth, 20th, 7:45; B.J. Kruse, 21st, 7:50; Dustin Walters, 26th, 9:01.Adrian: Ross Wieneke, third, 6:23; Brock Bullerman, fourth, 6:23; Collin Lynn, seventh, 6:51; Jarod Boltjes, eighth, 6:52; Kyle Henning, ninth, 6:52; Jordan Pater, 15th, 7:24; Huston Heitkamp, 17th, 7:28; Jared Altman, 24th, 18:20.
