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Goessel runners hold their own against bigger schools

By DELBERT PETERS

Sports writer

In one of the biggest cross country meets in the state Sept. 6 at Hesston two Goessel High School cross country runners earned medals.

Freshman Laird Goertzen earned seventh place in the freshman division with a time of 20 minutes, 34 seconds.

Kristen Hoffman took 11th in the 4000-meter race, finishing with a time of 17:43.

As a team the Goessel boys finished 19th out of 26 teams.

At Peabody Thursday the junior varsity boys took second place.

Nobody broke the 20-mintue barrier, but Johnathan Berkholz won the race in 20:47.

Goertzen finished third at 21:12, Isaac Fast earned eighth place with a time of 22:20, and Chad Wedel finished 13th in 22:50.

In the tough competition in the varsity boys' race, Jared Reimer ran his best time of the season at 20:58 and came in 36th out of 57 runners.

Boys results:

hesston, sept. 6

seniors

Jake Schrag - 22:10, 33rd.

Chris Johnston - 23:01, 46th.

Travis Duerkson - 25:49, 58th.

Matt Johnston - 28:19, 63rd.

juniors

Marius Schrewe - 20:32, 22nd.

Anthony Esau - 23:43, 39th.

sophomores

Jared Reimer - 21:20, 34th.

Chad Wedel - 21:44, 44th.

Isaac Fast - 22:52, 55th.

Derek Kruger - 27:29, 82nd.

freshman

Laird Goertzen - 20:34, seventh.

peabody, sept. 13

varsity

Jared Reimer - 20:58, 36th.

Jake Schrag - 22:14, 48th.

Chris Johnston - 22:46, 51st.

Anthony Esau - 22:50, 53rd.

junior varsity

Johnathan Berkholz - 20:47, first.

Laird Goertzen - 21:12, third.

Isaac Fast - 22:20, eighth.

Chad Wedel - 22:50, 13th.

Travis Duerksen - 25:21, 28th.

Matt Johnston - 26:36, 35th.

Derek Kruger - 26:53, 36th.

Girls' results:

hesston

junior/senior

Jessika Jesse - 23:50, 87th.

freshman/sophomore

Kristen Hoffman - 17:43, 11th.

Lindsey Wedel - 20:55, 45th.

Sara Bowman - 22:23, 61st.

peabody

varsity

Kristen Hoffman - 16:55, sixth.

Sara Bowman - 19:04, 33rd.

Lindsey Wedel - 19:24, 35th.

junior varsity

Shanna Klassen - 20:36, 15th.

Jessika Jesse - 22:30, 21st.

Raney Schroeder - 24:39, 26th.

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