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A-E improves
at Marshall meet

The Adrian-Edgerton cross country teams turned in some strong performances during the Marshall Invitational Monday.

After a rugged first week of the season that had the Harriers running in two hot meets while adjusting to the rigors of going back to school, A-E showed more readiness in Marshall that led to improved times and finishes.

The A-E boys finished fourth in a seven-team field, and the Harrier girls placed seventh out of eight teams.

"It was nice to see the kids get out of the back to school blahs," said Harrier coach Doug Petersen. "They were a lot more fired up for this meet. We ran really good races on both sides, and I was really happy with the way they ran. The weather was cooler, and the kids took advantage of it."

Jason Eickhoff led the Harrier boys to a fourth-place performance as a team by placing 11th overall with a time of 18:03.

Paul Honermann (25th in 18:31), Wade Ulmer (28th in 19:00), Jake Salter (29th in 19:03) and Josh Markl (34th in 19:16) contributed to A-E's team tally.

Derek Vastenhout (37th in 19:35) and Todd Alberty (48th in 20:23) didn't influence the varsity scoring.

Sarah Kruger helped the A-E girls place seventh by finishing 19th in 17:43.

Kelly Banck (31st in 18:14), Krissi Thier (36th in 18:21), Ashley Diller (40th in 18:36) and Lacey Heitkamp (43rd in 18:49) contributed to A-E's team effort.

Ashley Henning and Jessica Lynn placed 48th and 50th with respective times of 19:45 and 20:44 without influencing the scoring.

The A-E squads will compete at the Worthington Turkey Trot Saturday. Here is a look at the varsity team standings and the rest of A-E's individual results from the Marshall Invitational.

Varsity boys: Marshall 33, Canby-Minneota-Lincoln HI 57, Murray County Central 75, A-E 106, Worthington 117, Jackson County Central 126, Pipestone-Jasper 181.

Varsity girls: Marshall 40, Southwest Star Concept-Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster 77, MCC 83, Tracy-Milroy 105, JCC 113, C-M-LH 149, A-E 166, Worthington 169.

Junior varsity girls: Jamie Koehne, 38th, 22:04.

Junior varsity boys: Jesse Vande Kieft, 18:33, no place available; Paul Poppen, 18:37, no place available; Kelly Seeman, 19:22, no place available.

Junior high girls: Erika Fransen, 22nd, 8:55; Samantha Ferguson, 26th, 9:02; Abbey Henning, 31st, 9:19.

Junior high boys: Brandon Bullerman, eighth, 7:47; Joey Bullerman, 20th, 8:11; Marcus Uithoven, 38th, 10:23; Eldon Vaselaar, 39th, 12:28.

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