EV captures girls team title

SIGOURNEY — The Sigourney Golf Club course is no easy challenge. The rolling hills provided almost 300 feet of elevation gain in the 5k races Tuesday night.

English Valleys Gage Heyne and Anna Luers conquered them better than anyone else, winning the high school races.

Luers, in her freshman season, has led the Bears to ninth place in this week’s team rankings and is ranked 23rd individually in Class 1A.

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The freshman finished in 20:52, winning by 30 seconds, a lead that slowly increased throughout the race.

“It was a hard course. I just tried to keep going and push through the pain,” Luers said.

The rest of the team finished in the top 15, rolling to a dominant team victory with 20 points.

“Our team has been pushing each other a lot through the summer and the season,” Luers said. ”The goal is to get to state and do well there.“

The adjustment from the 1.5 and two-mile races up to the 5k has been no problem for Luers so far this season.

“I’m trying to learn a lot as I go, and our coach is doing a good job of pushing us,” Luers said.

In the boys race, Heyne, the second-ranked runner in Class 1A, won by 28 seconds over Columbus’ Ty Muniz.

Iowa Valley’s Jeffrey Crawford placed fourth in 18:28 and improved on last week’s time in Williamsburg on a more difficult course.

English Valleys Isaac Frazier and Evan Koehn and HLV’s Peyton Roth all finished in the top 10.

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Belle Plaine’s top finisher was Madox Purk, who finished 17th.

OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

Will Luers won the junior high boys race, running 9:31. English Valleys had three of the four top finishers.

Belle Plaine’s Elyse Jacobi was second in the girls race.

High School Girls

TEAM RESULTS

1. English Valleys 20, 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Freemont 56, 3. Lone Tree 67, 4. Columbus Community 90

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Top 5: 1. Anna Luers (English Valleys), 20:52.7; 2. Emmerson Jedlicka (North Mahaska), 21:22.9; 3. Addison Yates (Sigourney), 21:28.1; 4. Addison Achenbach (English Valleys), 21:42.1; 5. Ava Huffman (North Mahaska), 21:48.3

English Valleys (20): 1. Anna Luers, 20:52.7; 4. Addison Achenbach (English Valleys), 21:42.1; 8. Kaylee Frazier, 22:26.8; Kaylynn Caster, 23:08.8; 14. Kailor Lown, 23:36.7; 15. Audrey Achenbach, 23:41.4

Iowa Valley: 29. Kathryn Kilgard, 29:26.9; 41. Hannah Smolik, 33:53.0

Belle Plaine: 30. Aurora Hemmingsen-Brinkman, 30:27.7; 33. Elle Jacobi, 31:20

HLV: 31. Raelene Hawkins, 30:41.8

High School Boys

TEAM RESULTS

1. Columbus Community 21, 2. North Mahaska 67, 3. HLV 79, 4. Belle Plaine 94, 5. Iowa Valley 97

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Top 5: 1. Gage Heyne (English Valleys), 16:52.3; 2. Ty Muniz (Columbus Community), 17:20.6; 3. Troy Klett (Sigourney), 18:21.7; 4. Jeffrey Crawford (Iowa Valley), 18:28.7; 5. Ryan Villa (Columbus Community), 18:34.1

HLV (79): 8. Peyton Roth, 18:56.9; 16. Drew Thys, 20:23.3; 25. Wesley Davis, 21:44.0; 39. Lance Milton, 24:14; 49. Connor Rhinehart, 26:56.8

Belle Plaine (94): 17. Maddux Purk, 20:24.5; 24. Devin Timm, 21:33.3; 32. Caleb Argo, 23:14.2; 44. Ian Davis, 26:02.7; 48, Sawyer Neuhaus, 26:43.7

Iowa Valley (97): 4. Jeffrey Crawford, 18:28.7; 30. Ayden Hollister, 22:27.1; 43. Patrick Peach, 25:16.6; 51. Ayden Wagner, 27:17.2; 53. Derek Bral, 27:53.0; 57. Austin Trimble, 31:49.6; 58. Ethan Busch, 34:23.0

English Valleys: 1. Gage Heyne, 16:52.3; 7. Isaac Frazier, 18:55.3; 10. Evan Koehn, 19:19.0