By John Rittenhouse
Cross country programs from Luverne and Adrian High Schools received some action at the Marshall Invitational Monday.
The Luverne boys placed a strong second in a 10-team varsity field with 91 points. Adrian placed 10th with 242.
LuverneÕs girls placed fifth out of all teams in varsity competition. Adrian was incomplete.
Nick Otten led the Cardinal boys to their second-place finish by placing 10th individually with a time of 17:49.
Jake Studer (13th in 18:11), Jesse Kuhlman (17th in 18:25), Ruston Aaker (24th in 18:58) and Dusty Antoine (27th in 19:12) capped the team scoring for LHS.
Jesson Vogt and Devin Goembel placed 34th and 58th in 19:13 and 20:35 without influencing the scoring.
Paul Honermann and Brandon Bullerman led the Dragon boys by finishing 34th and 35th in 19:11 and 19:12.
Chad Janssen (55th in 19:59), Ethan Wieneke (61st in 20:37) and Kelly Seeman (68th in 23:01) contributed to Adrian's team total.
Sadie Dietrich set the pace for the Cardinal girls by placing 11th in the varsity race in 16:54.
Victoria Arends (18th in 17:21), Amanda Saum (26th in 17:57), Kelsey Dooyema (43rd in 18:46) and Brianna Studer (75th in 21:51) padded Luverne's team tally.
Jessica Willers placed 78th in 22:29 without affecting the scoring.
Adrian had three girls compete in the varsity race.
Krissi Thier placed 46th in 18:58, McCall Heitkamp 51st in 19:12 and Kelly Banck 53rd in 19:17.
Adrian and Luverne will run at the Worthington Turkey Trot Saturday. Here is a look at the team standings and other individual results from the Marshall Invitational.
Boys' standings: Marshall 21, Luverne 91, Jackson County Central 96, Canby-Minneota-Lincoln HI 102, Redwood Valley 145, Southwest Christian 161, Springfield 163, Windom 183, Worthington 207, Adrian 242.
Girls' standings: C-M-LH 64, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 68, Marshall 90, JCC 97, Luverne 160, RWV 185, Southwest Star Concept-Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster 192, Murray County Central 195, Windom 197, Springfield 204, Worthington 252.
Junior varsity boys
Luverne: Trevor Maine, sixth, 15:56; Travis Halfmann, 13th, 16:11; John May, 20th, 17:20; Grant Oldre, 25th, 17:09; Brent DeGroot, 33rd, 17:33; Michael Nelson, 55th, 19:58; David Nelson, 59th, 21:16.
Adrian: Eldon Vaselaar, 62nd, 23:27.
Junior high boys
Luverne: Eric Kraetsch, sixth, 7:31.
Adrian: Aaron Mormann, 16th, 8:12; Dustin Lonneman, 24th, 8:39; Collin Lynn, 27th, 8:50; Tim Zaske, 30th, 8:52.
Junior high girls
Luverne: Lexi Heitkamp, first, 2:54; Justine Heintzman, seventh, 8:40, Amanda Kannas, 20th, 9:13.
Adrian: Megan Henning, ninth, 8:41; Kaitlin Leinen, 19th, 9:02.