Boys Cross Country Roundup: Clippers Pack Run to Third Consecutive State Meet
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For the third year in a row and eighth time in the past 11 seasons Clear Creek Amana is headed to the state cross country meet.
Clear Creek Amana secured its third straight trip to the state meet in Fort Dodge with a third-place team finish at the Class 3A state qualifying meet at Max Championship Cross Country Course in Waverly on Wednesday.
Fourth-ranked Mount Vernon-Lisbon won the team title with 64 points followed by sixth-ranked Decorah with 72 and seventh-ranked Clear Creek Amana with 76.
Clear Creek Amana had three runners in the top 11 led by seniors Isaac Sorensen and Brock Hilsman who each posted top-10 finishes.
Sorensen finished seventh in a time of 16:26 while Hilsman was ninth in 16:29.2.
Freshman Carson Meskimen was 11th in a time of 16:33.9.
The Clippers had all seven runners finish in the top 38 and its top five runners all placed in the top 27.
Freshman Micah Johnson finished 22nd in a time of 16:57.7 and freshman Kyle Vogel finished 27th in 17:14.
Class 3A State Qualifying Meet
At Max Championship Cross Country Course in Waverly
Team scores – 1. Mount Vernon-Lisbon 64; 2. Decorah 72; 3. Clear Creek Amana 76; 4. Clear Lake 148; 5. Williamsburg 148; 6. Dubuque Wahlert 160; 7. Charles City 180; 8. Waverly-Shell Rock 191; 9. Webster City 251; 10. South Tama 280; 11. Belmond-Klemme 325; 12. Iowa Falls 332; 13. Hampton-Dumont-CAL 361
Individual leaders – 1. Austin Soldwisch (W-SR) 15:27; 2. Grady Olberding (MV-L) 15:32.2; 3. Jayden Brookins (DW) 16:07.6; 4. Xander Graeser (CC) 16:14.2; 5. Dawson Scheil (MV-L) 16:16.2; 6. Nick Williams CC) 16:22.1; 7. Isaac Sorensen (CCA) 16:26; 8. Barrett Jesina (ST) 16:27.4; 9. Brock Hilsman (CCA) 16:29.2; 10. Davis Coppola (DEC) 16:31.8; 11. Carson Meskimen (CCA) 16:33.9; 12. Grant Zilka (DEC) 16:37.5; 13. Gavin Roske (CL) 16:38.2; 14. Seamus O’Connor (MV-L) 16:41.4; 15. Landyn Hook (DEC) 16:44
Clear Creek Amana (76) – 7. Isaac Sorensen 16:26; 9. Brock Hilsman 16:29.2; 11. Carson Meskimen 16:33.9; 22. Micah Johnson 16:57.7; 27. Kyle Vogel 17:14; 30. Nic Schieltz 17:17.7; 38. Jackson Van Horn 17:47.1
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