Panther girls stay unbeaten
HUTCHINSON – Great Bend’s girls remained unbeaten with a 2-3-4 finish to capture first place in Thursday’s Buhler Cross Country Invitational. The Panthers (28) outdistanced runner-up Southeast of Saline (38) at Prairie Hills Middle School.
Panther runner-up Emilia Diaz (20:59.0) placed behind SE of Saline champion Jentrie Alderson (19:36.3) along with top 10 Panther medalists third place Marissa Boone (21;25.3); fourth place Diane Alvarez (21:41.3) and eighth-place Emma Loomis (22:24.5). Darcy Feist, 11th (23:14.1) and 21st-place August Siefkes (23:59.7) rounded out the Panther varsity lineup.
Great Bend’s Kaiden Esfeld finished third (16:35.5) behind past Southeast of Saline’s 3A state champion Dylan Sprecker (16:14.8) and Buhler’s 4A third-place medalist Tanner Lindahl (16:25.4).
BUHLER INVITATIONAL
PRAIRIE HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
GIRLS (5K)—TEAM TOTALS—1—Great Bend 28; 2—SE Saline 38; 3—Buhler 93; 4—Winfield 100; 5—McPherson 130; 6—Berean 149; 7—Hutchinson Trinity 162; 8—Ellinwood 229
TOP 10 MEDALISTS—1—Jentrie Alderson, SE, 19:36.3; 2—Emilia Diaz, GB, 20:59.0; 3—Marissa Boone, GB, 21:25.3; 4—Diane Alvarez, GB, 21:41.3; 5—Abby Commerford, SE, 21:56.5; 6—Chloe Clevenger, McPherson, 22:11.1; 7—Lindsay Warner, Buhler, 22:20.7; 8—Emma Loomis, GB, 22:24.5; 9—Joni Schroeder, SE, 22:51.3; 10—Cali Augustine, SE, 22:56.4
GREAT BEND—11—Darcy Feist, 23:14.1; 21—August Siefkes, 23:59.7
ELLINWOOD—44—Heidi Brauer, 27:42.2; 45—Allison Ricker, 27:54.3; 50—Emma Schmidt, 30:38.4; 51—Gracie Schlessiger, 32:33.6; 52—Brooklin Morgan, 32:35.8; 53—Hannah Winget, 32:40.3
JV GIRLS (5K)—1—Ashley Prochazka, SE, 23:48.8; GREAT BEND—4—Kate Welcher, 27:13.8; 9—Diana Piedra, 28:10.8; 15—Amy To, 29:45.7; NICKERSON—13—Ashley Teichmann, 29:16.8; 18—Emily Hall, 30:36.4
8TH GRADE GIRLS (2 miles)—1—Breckyn Alderson, SE, 15:11.7; ELLINWOOD—4—Lydia Porter, 16:20.6; 8—Julia Schlessiger, 19:18.9
7TH GRADE GIRLS—1—Regan Duran, SE, 10:18.1; ELLINWOOD—8—Ali Gonzalez, 11:54.1; RENO VALLEY—15—Amelai Pefil, 14:14.9
BUHLER INVITATIONAL
PRAIRIE HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
BOYS (5K)— TEAM TOTALS—1—SE Saline 32; 2—Buhler 38; 3—Berean 72; 4—Hutchinson Trinity 87; 5—Goddard 135
TOP 10 MEDALISTS—1—Dylan Sprecker, SE, 16:14.8; 2—Tanner Lindahl, Buhler, 16:25.4; 3—Kaiden Esfeld, GB, 16:35.5; 4—Damion Jackson, SE, 17:35.7; 5—Levi Allen, SE, 17:44.2; 6—Corban Priest, Winfield, 17:50.1; 7—Kaden Lohrentz , Buhler, 17:51.9; 8—Austin Lindahl, Buhler, 17:53.5; 9—Andrew Harder, Berean, 17:57.2
10—Joel Kejr, SE, 18:14.0
JV BOYS (5K)—1—Spencer Hines, Buhler, 18:41.0
GREAT BEND—16—Braylon Moore, 21:20.4; 26—Braden Suppes, 22:14.4; 29—Trenton Peterson, 22:20.8
NICKERSON—13—Levi Pauley, 21:13.8; 37—Kaden Ketterl, 23:27.1; 42—Dakota Brinkley, 23:54.9
8TH GRADE BOYS (2 miles)—1—Jacob Bircher, SE Saline, 12:07.2
7TH GRADE BOYS (1.5 miles)—1—Gavin Lindahl, Prairie Hills, 8:26.7; ELLINWOOD—2—Caleb Zook, 9:23.9; 3—Ryan Cherry, 10:13.8; 4—Joe Brauer, 10:16.4; 10—Colton Gibson, 12:06.9; 12—Russ Kern, 12;53.6; RENO VALLEY—7—Andy Huggard, 10:29.9
