Hart had a good day among a hyper-competitive field Saturday at the
Shepherd Invitational, with the Pirate boys finishing in second place
and the girls taking third in the Gold divisions.
Shelby also
raced at Shepherd, finishing 18th in the girls' meet. The Tigers did not
have enough finishers to score in the boys' race.
Hart edged
Lake City by four points and Covenant Christian by six in a very close
boys' race. Aiden Schaner was the top Pirate finisher, coming in 20th
place with a time of 17:34.8. Timothy Wolff was right behind Schaner,
coming in 22nd (17:35.3).
Also scoring for Hart were Mason
Opalewski in 32nd place (17:55.4), Trevor VanderKodde in 41st (18:07.6)
and Owen VanderVlucht in 48th (18:19.9).
In the girls' race,
Natalie Rosema earned the top finish by any Pirate, coming in ninth. Her
time was 20:34.5. Alaina Schaner took 22nd for the Pirates in a time of
21:24.4.
Bryn Riley placed 32nd (21:48.1), Luisa VanderZwaag
was 43rd (22:27.0) and Abigail Studer took 63rd (23:36.6) to get in the
scoring column for Hart.
Noel Parker paced the Tiger girls by
coming in 39th place and setting a season best time (22:11.99). Kathryn
Beyer finished 82nd (24:45.5) and April Luna was 99th (25:51.9). Closing
out the scoring were Sydney Reed (110th, 26:41.5) and Ava Lamberg
(115th, 27:00.0).
Parker Weirich placed 70th for Shelby in the
boys' race (19:08.96), followed shortly by Brycen Brown in 73rd
(19:13.3). Emilio Bustos (148th, 25:52.97) and Declan Waller (150th,
26:16.8) also finished for the Tigers.
