TERRE HAUTE —
Temperatures in the 60s greeted 443 runners — 223 girls and 220 boys — as they broke in the high school season Saturday morning, competing in the second annual Bloomington North Early Bird Meet at Terre Haute’s LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course.
Terre Haute South junior Jackson Bertoli won the boys 5-kilometer race in 16 minutes, 3.7 seconds, defeating runner-up Cole Hester of Lawrence Central by exactly 10 seconds.
“I talked with [South] coach [Kyle] Walsh beforehand and he just wanted me to feel out this first race — no big pressure,” Bertoli told the Tribune-Star afterward. “I just tried to hang in the mid pack [at the beginning]. I didn’t want to lead it from the front necessarily. I waited ‘til we got to the 2K mark and I threw in a little surge. No one went with me, so I just kept on going [into the lead]. I felt good at the end… It definitely felt like a good run. I didn’t have to exert myself too much, just trying to get the win for the team.”
South teammate Logan Hambrock, a senior, crossed the finish line seventh in 16:45.6. Also, Northview junior Nic Yocom was ninth in 16:52.2.
Team-wise, South finished second with 52 points behind only Lawrence Central’s 44. Northview placed 10th (267), Bloomfield 15th (403) and Clay City 16th (418) in the 17-team field.
“We followed the race strategy pretty well,” Walsh assessed about the Braves. “I’d say the guys got out in good positions, settled in and ran the last 2K very hard. We set ourselves up for a positive run through the rest of the year.”
Walsh described Bertoli’s triumphant run as “smooth and relaxed.”
“He ran the way we wanted him to run,” South’s second-year coach continued. “He had a very strong finish. He looks very fit for this time of year.”
Meanwhile, Bertoli believes the Braves are ready for a big season in the next two-plus months.
“This is one of the strongest teams South’s ever had,” he emphasized. “We have a lot of aspirations and goals. We were going in ranked ninth in the state. That’s pretty high up for us. We have the runners and we have the talent to do it. We just have to make everything click and bring the team together in the end.”
In the girls 5K race, South junior Nikki Thiede came in second with a time of 19:58.6. She trailed winner Kate Raphael, a junior from Bloomington North, by 4.5 seconds.
The Braves finished third in the team competition with 110 points. Bloomington South (55) edged runner-up Westfield (56) for first, while Bloomfield placed eighth (242), Northview 10th (275) and Clay City 13th (336) in the 14-team field.
“I led up until the third or fourth K,” Thiede pointed out. “Then Kate started pushing me [figuratively, not literally]. She ended up getting me at the end. She has a better sprint than I do.”
Still, Thiede thought this was a great way to start the season — for her and the South team.
“I did better than I did last year [placing fourth in 20:06.3 as a sophomore], so that was good,” she mentioned. “And I was hoping to break 20 [minutes] and I did.
“I think we [as a team] did really well today. I think we can make it back to state [Oct. 27 on the same course] for the third year in a row.”
South girls coach Ed Jarvis also praised his runners’ efforts Saturday.
“There was a little bit of a different format with the unlimited entries [for each school],” he explained. “Probably a couple of the people who scored for me wouldn’t have even run if this were a top-seven varsity race. We ran 12 today. Usually, you pick who you think your best seven are and they run.”
Jarvis said the depth of the team, which was evident Saturday, is a good problem to have.
“A couple people were off their game,” he noted, “but Nikki looked real good today.”
From the Northview perspective, coaches Chad Smith (boys) and Rexanne Laue (girls) saw early-season positives that they can take into September.
“Looking at our times, I thought we ran extremely well,” Smith said. “I was happy with how our kids ran. Our No. 1, Nic, ran real well, breaking the top 10 in this meet with some pretty big schools in it. So I’m happy overall with how we did.”
“The girls did excellent today,” Laue stressed. “They all had excellent times for their first race on this course, because this is sort of a hard course for them.”
Also worth mentioning from Saturday is Alli Workman’s seventh-place finish for Bloomfield in the girls race.
Bloomington North Early Bird Meet
(Both races 5K)
GIRLS
Team scores — Bloomington South 55, Westfield 56, Terre Haute South 110, Lawrence Central 115, Bloomington North 120, Silver Creek 206, Martinsville 215, Bloomfield 242, Monrovia 252, Northview 275, Brown County 295, Indian Creek 315, Clay City 336, Southmont 350.
Top 20 — Kate Raphael (BN) 19:54.1, Nikki Thiede (THS) 19:58.6, Maddy Roach (LC) 20:07.0, Alex Warzyniak (BS) 20:27.7, Alexis Lewandowski (BS) 20:30.8, Brittany Sharp (SC) 20:34.7, Alli Workman (Bloom) 20:34.7, Briana Leonard (W) 20:41.9, Taylor Rogers (W) 20:41.9, Shelby Wilson (W) 20:49.9.
Veronica Fickel (BS) 20:59.4, Rose Guingrich (BC) 21:00.1, Karli Koning (W) 21:01.5, Katie Schmidt (THS) 21:02.7, Lainey Derheimer (BS) 21:04.8, Devon Leahy (W) 21:07.8, Shannon Webb (W) 21:10.2, Isabel Roberts-Hamilton (BN) 21:11.4, Lauren Schweizer (W) 21:30.9, Ali Burt (BS) 21:34.6.
Terre Haute South — 2. Thiede 19:58.6, 14. Schmidt 21:02.7, 23. Rachel Stephens 21:39.2, 41. Kerstin Peterson 22:19.9, 53. Nicole Howe 22:56.1, 55. Aydee Dalina 22:56.5, 56. Sami Holmes 22:57.4.
Bloomfield — 7. Workman 20:34.7, 97. Shelby Patton 25:02.3, 111. Bridget Buka 25:27.6, 129. Bethany Stewart 26:12.1, 137. Shayla Wikle 26:41.4, 142. Mariah Long 26:48.6, 147. Kristin Hall 27:08.5.
Northview — 60. Hannah Zadii 23:06.1, 61. Ashley Kidwell 23:08.0, 63. Emily Conrad 23:17.2, 135. Leanna Knight 26:39.2, 157. Eileen Stinnett 27:57.6, 163. Maegan Pillman 28:27.2, 171. Carrie Drugger 29:30.3.
Clay City — 49. Kelsey Wright 22:44.0, 132. Ashley Reach 26:29.1, 159. Kayla Sinders 27:59.5, 162. Kiersten Mann 28:17.1, 168. Tiara Skaggs 28:54.8, 187. Krista Sinders 33.43.0.
BOYS
Team scores — Lawrence Central 44, Terre Haute South 52, Bloomington South 57, Bloomington North 147, Indian Creek 191, Silver Creek 192, Brown County 222, Edgewood 224, Martinsville 243, Northview 267, Lighthouse Christian 320, Pike Central 342, Southmont 352, Crawford County 400, Bloomfield 403, Clay City 418, Monrovia 442.
Top 20 — Jackson Bertoli (THS) 16:03.7, Cole Hester (LC) 16:13.7, Matt Dorsey 16:14.8, Kyle Burks (BS) 16:17.5, Chandler Ball (LC) 16:29.6, Jordan Huntoon (BS) 16:36.6, Logan Hambrock (THS) 16:45.6, Jake Johnson (IC) 16:48.5, Nic Yocom (Nv) 16:52.2, Anthony Williams (BS) 16:53.3.
Darin Lawrence (LC) 17:03.6, Michael Mest (E) 17:08.3, Riley Stohler (THS) 17:09.3, Spencer Danielson (THS) 17:10.3, Aaron Tincher (M) 17:19.8, Xavier Martinez (BS) 17:22.0, Devon Fuson (THS) 17:24.5, Griffin Tichenor (BN) 17:24.9, Andrew Carmin (BN) 17:31.7, Cain Parker (PC) 17:36.1.
Terre Haute South — 1. Bertoli 16:03.7, 7. Hambrock 16:45.6, 13. Stohler 17:09.3, 14. Danielson 17:10.3, 17. D.Fuson 17:24.5, 26. Jerad Fuson 17:47.6, 29. Isaac Wonderlin 17:50.6.
Northview — 9. Yocom 16:52.2, 64. Cam Trout 18:56.7, 82. Travis Bell 19:33.2, 87. Ian Heffner 19:40.7, 123. Skylar Aguilar 20:47.4, 138. Devon McCollum 21:12.5, 145. Christian Herron 21:20.0.
Bloomfield — 73. Parker Ramsey 19:18.6, 107. Jared Bond 20:13.1, 114. Brad Kirkley 20:32.8, 140. Clayton Burch 21:13.0, 175. Spencer Warren 22:48.3, 192. J.J. Kingsley 26:06.9.
Clay City — 68. Parker Ames 19:05.5, 98. Michael Brooks 20:04.2, 131. Paiden Myers 20:57.8, 161. Evan Rogers 22:14.4, 190. Josh Miller 25:41.0, 195. Jordan Prindiville 29:41.8.
Next — Both South squads will compete next Saturday in the Purdue University Invitational at West Lafayette. Northview’s boys and girls will take on Shakamak, Brown County and Owen Valley at Owen Valley on Tuesday.
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