Red Oak cross country shows marked improvement at Hawkeye 10 meet

ATLANTIC – Red Oak’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams showed significant improvement in just a week’s time with a pair of 8th-place finishes at the Hawkeye-10 Conference meet Thursday. 

Running at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club for a second consecutive week, Red Oak’s girls cut three and half a minutes off their team score while improving their average time 42 seconds. 

Sophomore Paige Shirley showed the biggest spike by cutting 2:25 off her time, finishing in 45th with a time of 23:53. Ashley Brower led Red Oak with a 37th place finish (23:25), an 11 second improvement from the previous week. Abigail Sherman also improved her time significantly, running the course in 28:18, one minute and 38 seconds faster than the previous week. 

Juhianna Boeye (21 seconds, 48th, 24:35), Emma Ross (25 seconds, 63rd, 28:05), and Lauren Gilbert (39 seconds, 67th, 28:31) also improved their times while Sydney Straw (57th, 26:03) was only two seconds off her pace from the previous week. 

The boys shaved 90 seconds off their total team time while reducing their individual average by 18 seconds. 

Noah Roberts cut his time by 54 seconds, finishing in 59th place at 20:26. Liam Eubank (33rd, 19:10), Weston Rolenc (19th, 18:42), and Sean Griffen (61st, 20:31) improved their times by 35, 34 and 33 seconds, respectively. 

Junior Alec Selberg was two seconds slower this week, but his time of 18:12 was still good enough for a ninth place finish to lead the Tigers. 

Ben Koppa (20:30) and Jacob Cashatt (21:39) rounded out the varsity lineup, finishing 60th and 72nd. 

JV Boys

Ryan Dyson – 27th, 21:07; 

August Taylor – 31st, 21:15; 

Rob Vial – 42nd, 21:40; 

Jake Sellers – 69th, 22:34; 

Taylor Smith – 97th, 23:22; 

Tristan Wolfe – 112th, 24:19;  

Zachary Ross – 117th, 24:31; 

Mason Perkins – 135th, 29:39. 

JV Girls 

Elsa Wemhoff – 65th, 29:57. 

MS Boys (4K)

Connor Koppa – 3rd, 12:48; 

Aidan Eubank – 14th, 13:43;

Corbin Wolfe – 38th, 15:11;

Drew Shirley – 45th, 15:43.

MS Girls (3K)

Alexa McCunn – 16th, 14:46; 

Haley Plambeck – 29th, 15:44;

Maci Graber – 43rd, 16:29;

Madi Hewett – 54th, 16:55; 

Madison Bruce – 59th, 17:15;

Nadine Torbett – 63rd, 17:30;  

Morgan Graber – 67th, 17:44; 

Eva Sherman – 79th, 18:11; 

Rhenn Rolenc – 85th, 18:24; 

Jenna Klyn – 99th, 21:17.