10/24/2019 0 Comments Jaguar Boys’ Place 3rd at GRC MeetBy: Mr. Linden
The Jaguar boys’ placed 3rd overall at the GRC Conference meet on October 15th. The Jags placed behind the champions from Rush City and 2nd place Pine City. The boys’ team was led by five seniors running in their final GRC meet and two all-conference qualifiers. The varsity race saw a surprise tactic not seen since the late 1990’s/early 2000’s known to HF cross country historians as ‘The Vickerman.’ The Vickerman entails a runner sacrificing oneself by beginning the race at an above normal and unrealistic pace for 3.1 miles but includes the right for that runner to say they led a varsity race. A special congratulations goes out to Jaguar Howard Hodena who successfully displayed The Vickerman. Hodena is able to say he led about a half mile of the varsity race and somewhere a picture and video exists to back this claim. Brock Bjerke was the top Jaguar finisher and all-conference qualifier by finishing 4th overall. Brock went out with the leaders with this group of four going through the 1 mile mark in about 5:25. The halfway mark of the race saw this group of four begin to separate into individuals with Brock settling into his fourth place. The final mile of the race still required a maximum effort with contenders from Rush City and East Central doing their best to try to close the gap to Brock. However, they would not succeed and Brock maintained his 4th place until the end finishing in 18:44. Isaiah Brindamour also was able to finish as an all-conference runner by placing 9th overall. Brindamour found himself in a group of five runners for the last ¾ mile to mile distance. Going into the final quarter mile, one of the runners from this group would finish 11th and not be an all-conference qualifier. Isaiah responded to the challenge with one big acceleration for the final kick. Isaiah finished with a time of 19:28, two seconds ahead of 10th and 11 seconds in front of 11th. Rounding out the scoring for the Jaguars was Josey Olson and Lucas Kreft who as teammates were sprinting for the line for places 14 and 15. Both narrowly missed the 20 minute barrier finishing in 20:04 and 20:05. Jacob Barstad was the fifth Jaguar in placing 18th, Brody Froehling sixth for the Jags placing 23rd, and Howard Hodena who placed 29th. The junior varsity boys’ placed three in the top ten of this race. All three Jags ran personal bests with Devon Mulder placing 4th in 21:21, Garrett Hosna placing 7th in 22:03, and his teammate placing 9th in 22:04. The junior high boys’ also placed three runners in the top ten with Griffin Stiel leading the way placing 2nd, 5th went to Colton Froehling, and 6th overall to Dalton Hosna. The Jaguar varsity squad will have some rebuilding to do looking forward to next season. The team will graduate six seniors, five of which consistently ran varsity. These five spots will be up for grabs but this team has many younger runners who will hopefully be looking to step up into this role.
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