{"id":80248,"date":"2016-09-26T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=80248"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:08:44","slug":"lancer-boys-2nd-vw-boys-girls-4th-at-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/26\/lancer-boys-2nd-vw-boys-girls-4th-at-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancer boys 2nd, Bowen wins girls’ race"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

Local cross country teams did well in the 2016 Van Wert County Hospital Invitational held Saturday at the city reservoirs.<\/p>\n

The Lincolnview Lancer boys finished highest, earning a second-place finish behind meet winner Wauseon. Van Wert was fourth, while Crestview finished in seventh place out of 20 teams. Wauseon won the boys\u2019 race.<\/p>\n

For the girls\u2019, it was Van Wert\u2019s fourth-place finish that was the highest for county teams, with Lincolnview sixth, and the Lady Knights eighth out of 15 teams. Columbus Grove was the girls\u2019 race champion.<\/p>\n

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The Lincolnview boys’ cross country team (above) finished second at the 2016 Van Wert County Hospital Invitational.<\/strong> (photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cougars had the fastest runner of the local boys\u2019 teams, with sophomore Cal Wolfrum placing third in the boys\u2019 race in a time of 16:52. Lincolnview senior Austin Elick was fourth in 17:17. Ottoville junior Brendon Siefker won the boys\u2019 race in 16:06, with Wauseon junior Kyle Vernot second in 16:46.<\/p>\n

The Lancer boys had the tightest pack of the local teams, with Elick\u2019s teammate Karter Tow taking 10th place, Jacob Keysor finishing 13th, Tracey West 23rd, and Alek Bowersock in 28th place. Lincolnview\u2019s Devon Bill (47th) and Joe Sadowski (75th) were the team\u2019s sixth and seventh runners.<\/p>\n

In addition to Wolfrum\u2019s third place finish, Cougar boy finishers included Dylan Lautzenheiser (18th), Stephen Hamblett (19th), Thane Cowan (22nd), and Cade Chiles (30th). Blake Henry (31st) and Sterling Rigdon (36th) were the team\u2019s sixth and seventh runners.<\/p>\n

Crestview boys were led by Wyatt Richardson\u2019s 25th place finish, while<\/p>\n

Van Wert Head Coach Ryan Holliday was somewhat disappointed in the boys\u2019 team finish, but was pleased with individual performances.<\/p>\n

Obviously, we were hoping to place higher as a team, but I was very pleased with our efforts,\u201d Coach Holliday said. \u201cWe went in with clear team objectives and expected to run PR (personal record) times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put our top pack with (eventual champion) Wauseon for two-plus miles and our guys finished only about 5 seconds Wauseon\u2019s pack,\u201d he added. \u201cAlso, nearly 85 percent of our guys ran their season best time today, and several were their lifetime best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lincolnview Head Coach Matt Langdon was pleased with his team\u2019s finish, especially with the fact that his top five boy runners all finished in the top 30 of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very proud of how the boys fought today,\u201d Coach Langdon said. \u201cThey ran with confidence from the beginning and put themselves in a good position to place well as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe accomplished several of our team goals, but still have a bit of work to do if we are going to reach our full potential,\u201d he added. \u201cOur top 5 has a lot of big meet experience and I thought that showed today,\u201d Langdon added. \u201cWe have a couple of tough training weeks ahead and then we start to prepare for tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crestview\u2019s Ashley Bowen won the girls\u2019 race in a time of 19:44, with Van Wert\u2019s Caylee Phillips finishing ninth (21:12), and Lincolnview\u2019s top finisher Rylee Byrne, who placed 22nd in a time of 22:07. Crestview\u2019s Ragen Harting was 11th in a time of 21:18.<\/p>\n

In addition to Bowen and Harting, other Crestview finishers included Brooke Ripley (64th), Lauren Schumm (99th), and Lydia Saylor (103rd).<\/p>\n

In addition to Phillips, Van Wert girl finishers were Julia Springer (16th), Jerica Huebner (17th), Caton Williamson (43rd), and Nicole Clay (47th).<\/p>\n

For Lincolnview, girl finishers behind Byrne were Tori Snyder (28th), Madeline Snyder (37th), Alena Looser (43rd), and Miah Katalenas (104th).<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like our boys\u2019 team, we had many season best times on our girls\u2019 side,\u201d said Coach Holliday. \u201cOur girls finished only five points behind third-place Coldwater, so I was really proud of how we came out and competed on our home course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports Local cross country teams did well in the 2016 Van Wert County Hospital Invitational held Saturday at the city reservoirs. The Lincolnview Lancer boys finished highest, earning a second-place finish behind meet winner Wauseon. Van Wert was fourth, while Crestview finished in seventh place out of 20 teams. Wauseon won the boys\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 17:29:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}