Trojans and Hunters take first at Potosi Invitational

By DONN ADAMSON
Daily Journal Sports Editor

POTOSI — Potosi City Park was the sight of a cross country extravaganza on Saturday as the Potosi Invitational Meet was held in conjunction with the MAAA Conference Meet. Twenty-two different schools were represented by 50 teams from high school varsity to middle school teams for both boys and girls, with a total of 525 runners entered in the five races.

The Potosi Trojans won both high school varsity meets for the boys, and the Ste. Genevieve Hunters won both of the girls meets. Places and times for the race were used for each meet. Team points were composed by adding the place each runner finished in for the first five runners for that team, and places for any individual runners who did not have a team represented were dropped in computing the team scores.

The top 30 runners medaled in the Potosi Meet for both the boys and girls races (see list below). The top nine conference runners earned All-Conference honors.

Only four schools had teams entered in the Conference Meet with six schools having runner representation.

Boys —

The Trojans scored 45 points for first-place in the Invitational, which turned into 21 points to win first in the conference meet. Notre Dame came in second with 47 points and Festus was third at 52.

Jacob Swearingen for Potosi took first place honors in the boys race with a time of 16:08.7, just nine seconds ahead of teammate Nick Niggemann. Wynn McClellan of Notre Dame came in third 33 seconds later.

Erich Diesel of Ste. Genevieve placed eighth overall which was good enough for third in the conference meet.

Farmington took second in the conference with a score of 52, and they were fourth in the Potosi meet with a score of 127.

Those winning All-Conference honors were Swearingen, Niggemann, Diesel, and Justin Doss, Devin Hampton, and Jacob Mathis of Potosi, Jeff Kostedt and Caleb Sutton of Arcadia Valley and Colton Wooldridge of Farmington.

Girls —

The Ste. Genevieve Hunters finished with a score of 43 to take first place in the girls meet, and they totaled a perfect score of 15 in the  conference meet. Festus was second at 59, and Cape Central was third at 85.

North County finished seventh in the Potosi Meet with a score of 180, but when all of the non-conference places were removed they finished tied with Farmington (8th with 196 points) at 61 points apiece. The tiebreaker went to the team that had the best sixth-girl finish

Little did Cassidy Whitener of Farmington know that when she crossed the finish line in 50th place, it would end up giving her team second place.

Alyssa Allison of Festus won the overall meet with a time of 19:31.53. Mary Dohogne of Cape Central was second and Sarah White of Potosi took third with a time of 20:17.

White’s third-place finish was first among the conference runners. Ste. Genevieve’s first five runners were the next conference finishers with Jennifer Bauman leading the way at 20:40.8. Lydia Huelskamp, Ashley Brewster, Nicole Rottler and Linzie Bauer followed in order. Also claiming All-Conference honors were Justine Allison of Farmington, Holly Shilly of Ste. Genevieve and Whitney Welch of North County.

 

MAAA Conference Meet

BOYS —

Team Scores:

1. Potosi 21, 2. Farmington 52, 3. Arcadia Valley 65, 4. North County 82.

Individual Times:

1. Jacob Swearingen (P) 16:08.7, 2. Nick Niggemann (P) 16:17.9, 3. Erich Diesel (SG) 17:19.0, 4. Justin Doss (P)17:20.8, 5. Colton Wooldridge (F) 17:47.1, 6. Jeff Kostedt (AV) 17:50.3, 7. Caleb Sutton (AV) 17:52.3, 8. Devin Hampton (P) 18:03.5, 9. Jacob Mathis (P) 18:06.3, 10. Ben Schwalenberg (F) 18:06.9, 11. Ryan Oberle (SG) 18:14.3, 12. Garrett Degonia (NC)18:26.0, 13. Derrick Scales (F) 18:32.4, 14.  Alex Leutzinger (NC) 18:35.6, 15. Corey Samples (SG) 18:40.4, 16. Ryan Hathaway (F) 18:48.0, 17. Alvon Poole (AV) 18:54.8, 18. Alex Cofer (F) 18:56.7, 19. Alex Rhodes (F) 19:09.4, 20. Luke Meyer (F) 19:32.8, 21. John Inman, (SG) 19:46.5, 22. Cody Anderson (NC) 19:56.9, 23. Drake Ackley, (AV) 20:05.1, 24. Justin West (K) 20:32.3, 25. Brad Merseal, (K) 21:03.7, 26. Steven Nowicki (NC) 21:11.7, 27. Jimmy Morey, ( AV) 22:17.4, 28. Gary Bennett (NC) 22:17.6, 29. Jimmy Nash, (K) 22:29.8, 30. Joseph Sulzer (K) 23:03.4.  

GIRLS —

Team Scores:

1. Ste. Genevieve 15, 2. Farmington 61, 3. North County 61.

Individual Times:  

1. Sarah White (P) 20:17.1, 2. Jennifer Bauman (SG) 20:40.8, 3. Lydia Huelskamp (SG) 20:43.6, 4. Ashley Brewster (SG) 21:07.6, 5. Nicole Rottler (SG) 21:09.6, 6, Linzie Bauer (SG) 22:11.8, 7. Justine Allison (F) 22:15.6, 8. Holly Shilly (SG) 22:30.4, 9. Whitney Welch (NC) 22:31.6, 10. Nikole Johnson (P) 22:32.3, 11. Alissah Dickey (NC)22:35.9, 12. Taylor Weible (NC) 24:03.1, 13. Paige Samples (SG) 24:10.7, 14. Alexis King (F) 24:31.3, 15. Cassidy Whitener (F) 24:36.1, 16. Jacqueline Wolf (F) 24:50.5, 17. Karley Monroe (NC) 24:57.4, 18. Shelby Hobbs (F) 25:04.0, 19. Hannah Jaegers (SG) 25:08.7, 20. Taylin Persons (F) 25:17.8, 21. Moriah Gray (F) 25:45.8, 22. Courtney Coulter (NC) 25:47.3, 23. Alexis Kiefer (F) 25:48.2, 24. Kelsey White (NC) 25:56.6, 25. Katie Sprauer (NC) 26:22.9, 26. Ashley Babilonia (NC) 26:59.9, 27. Lizzie Randall (F) 27:06.7, 28. Keona Minor (F) 27:11.7, 29. Tori West (NC) 27:14.8, 30. Katia Barzowski (AV) 28:14.3, 31. Liz Galt (F) 29:24.5.



Potosi Invitational Meet

BOYS —

Team Scores:

1. Potosi 45, 2. Notre Dame (Cape) 47, 3. Festus 52, 4. Farmington 127, 5. Jackson 150.

Individual Places:

1. Jacob Swearingen, Potosi 16:08.66, 2. Nick Niggemann,           Potosi High School, 3. Wynn McClellan, Notre Dame 4. Travis Blalock, Poplar Bluff, 5. Blake Darnell, Festus, 6. Logan Davis,              Notre Dame, 7. Cole Allison, Festus, 8. Erich Diesel, Ste. Genevieve, 9. Justin Doss, Potosi, 10. Ryan Johnson, Notre Dame, 11. Greg Gibson, Jackson, 12. Christian Moore, Festus, 13. Zach Abernathy, Festus, 14. Colton Wooldridge, Farmington, 15. Jeff Kostedt, Arcadia Valley, 16. Caleb Sutton, Arcadia Valley, 17. Dillon Klaffer, Notre Dame, 18. Matt Reinagel, Notre Dame, 19. Devin Hampton, Potosi, 20. Jacob Mathis, Potosi, 21. Ben Schwalenberg, Farmington, 22. Thomas Bridges, Kelly, 23. Ryan Oberle, Ste. Genevieve, 24. Daylan Davis, Meadow Heights High, 25. Shane Brown, Festus, 26. Caleb Borowiak, Pacific 27. Matt Becker, Pacific, 28. Garrett Degonia, North County, 29. Drew White, Festus, 30. Derrick Scales, Farmington.

GIRLS —

Team Scores:

1. Ste. Genevieve 43, 2. Festus 59, 3. Cape Central 85, 4. Jackson 108, 5. DeSoto 116. 

Individual places:

1. Alyssa Allison, Festus 19:31.53, 2. Mary Dohogne,             Cape Central, 3. Sarah White, Potosi High School, 4. Brittany Moreland, Cape Central, 5. Hannah Blalock, Poplar Bluff, 6. Jennifer Bauman, Ste. Genevieve, 7. Lydia Huelskamp, Ste. Genevieve, 8. Tiffany Smith, Festus, 9. Taylor Dickerson, Jackson High School  20:59.70, 10. Ashley Brewster, Ste. Genevieve, 11. Nicole Rottler,           Ste. Genevieve, 12. Tori Parry, Jackson, 13. Tori Pfau,                Cape-Notre Dame, 14. Nicole Beffa, Festus, 15. Tara Chronister, DeSoto, 16. Tara Johnson, Kelly, 17. Ashley Ketcherside,       Hillsboro, 18. Lainey Foltz, Festus, 19. Shelby Roberts,           DeSoto, 20. Linzie Bauer, Ste. Genevieve, 21. Justine Allison,          Farmington, 22. Jordyn Richmond, Cape Central, 23. Holly Shilly,             Ste. Genevieve, 24. Whitney Welch, North County 25. Nikole Johnson, Potosi, 26. Alissah Dickey, North County, 27. Diane Strong, Jackson, 28. Jessica Pope, DeSoto, 29. Kristi Butler,  Festus, 30. Heather McKinney, Pacific.