Photos couresty of Negaunee, Holy Name High Schools
FLAT ROCK, Mich.---The Bay College Norse athletic department hosted a high school cross country meet on Saturday for the first time ever, using the Farmhouse course in Flat Rock, the same venue that hosted the MHSAA high school U.P. Finals several times in recent years. Negaunee's girls (pictured) and Gladstone's boys took the team trophies.
There were eight high school boys teams from across the UP competing with full squads, plus another four schools who had runners compete but did not have enough for a team score. On the girls side, there were seven full teams competing, plus another six who had girls running it did not have enough to compile full team results.
There were also junior varsity/middle school runners competiing, The team results follow.
BOYS HIGH SCHOOL TEAM RESULTS
Gladstone 39
Rudyard 49
Negaunee 82
Rapid River 89
Stephenson 127
Holy Name 155
Manistique 191
Menominee 204
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL TEAM RESULTS
Negaunee 30
Stphenson 70
Rudyard 75
Marinette 94
Gladstone 102
Rapid River 116
Coleman 17
BOYS INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (TOP 10)
Stephen Kirschner (Rudyard) 17:38.6
Canon Kuntze (Stephenson) 17:50.5
Simon Jakin (Negaunee) 18:14.9
Max Beauchamp (Gladstone) 18:38.1
Eli Folkersma (Rudyard) 18:38.3
Grady Nelson (Gladstone) 18:52.7
Teagan Reynolds (Gladstone) 19:02.6
Jon Denkins (Rapid River) 19:20.9
Seth Templeton (Rudyard) 19:22.3
Hunter Schneider (Marinette) 19:31.5
GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (TOP 10)
Kiera Waterman (Negaunee) 21:13.9
Faith Cappaert (Stephenson) 21;17.0
Aviah Akerley (Escanaba) 21:36.5
Winley Brandt (Menominee) 21;43.8
Nori Korsman (Negaunee) 22:02.1
Sadie Rogers (Negaunee) 22:13.9
Melissa Kirschner (Rudyard) 22:22.6
Lexi Glbert (Gladstone) 22:26.8
Sophia Borths (Marinette) 22:46.0
Gabriella Putnam (Stephenson) 23:01.6
"We're excited to offer high school athletes a unique racing experience," said Scott Carhoun, Bay College Cross Country Coach. "With the new course updates, especially the addition of the horse barn, we anticipate the athletes will be chomping at the bit to be the first to run through"
They were. In all, there were 63 boys varsity runners, 59 girls varsity runners, 49 boys JV runners, and six girls JV runners.\\
HOLY NAME KIDS SHINE: On the boys side, Crusader senior Michael Rexford finished 21st out of 63 total runners (20:00.6). Freshman Sam Chouinard was 31st (21:09.8). Eighth grader Elliot Pfotenhauer was 40th (22:20).
