WEBSTER CITY LYNX CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
Ballard Invitational – September 13, 2004

BOYS			GIRLS
TEAM SCORES			TEAM SCORES
Humboldt	55		Waukee	52
Webster City	64		Garner-Hayfield	59
Nevada	92		Johnston	64
Waukee	106		Webster City	92
Garner-Hayfield	117		Nevada	145
Perry	137		Boone	190
Boone	160		Norwalk	192
Creston	185		Creston	207
Norwalk	274		Humboldt	237
Johnston	NTS		Perry	257

BOYS VARSITY	W.T.-16:30		GIRLS VARSITY	W.T.-15:47
Tony Fischels	1^st-16:30		Shannon Kane	9^th-16:30
Chris Wardell	2^nd-16:40		Emily Long	16^th-16:40
Nick Barnes	18^th-18:21		Kelsey Tompkins	17^th-16:44
Alex Flege	19^th-18:23		Ashley Grimm	18^th-16:51
Joel Abbott	24^th-18:36		Ashley Hanson	32^nd-17:46
Dustin Rich	29^th-18:56		Libby McMurray	35^th-17:56
Jesse Ogg	50^th-20:26		Becky Perin	39^th-18:16

AWARD WINNERS			AWARD WINNERS
Tony Fischels			Shannon Kane
Chris Wardell			Emily Long
			Kelsey Tompkins

BOYS J.V.	W.T.-?		GIRLS J.V.	W.T.-?
Aaron Bieker	32^nd-20:39		Katie Greufe	5^th-18:06
Drew Hunt	64^th-21:28		Jennie Bunkofske	8^th-18:17
Matt O’Connell	69^th-21:34		Jessie Severson	24^th-19:22
Chris Scholtens	90^th-22:14		Emily Sewick	27^th-19:31
Brandon Hicok	102^nd-22:37		Toshia Wardell	30^th-19:42
			Elizabeth Johnson	59^th-20:26

COACH BUSSAN’S COMMENTS
Boys: I was pleased with the progress shown by our team. We found ourselves in a great race with conference rival Humboldt for the team title. While we came up on the short end, we did a much better job of bringing our #3-5 runners together. Alex and Joel moved much closer to Nick at this race and it showed in our team score. Nick continues to lead the way for that pack. Nevada is considered one of the top central Iowa teams and so I felt very good about a solid finish in front of them. Tony Fischels and Chris Wardell ran an outstanding race together and separated early from Perry’s Mike Stout who was 6th at the state cross country meet a year ago. Tony then made a strong push with a half mile left to go and took control of the race. On the J.V. side, Aaron Bieker had an outstanding race and a huge personal record in finishing 32nd.

Girls: The girls ran a very good team race against an exceedingly strong girl’s field. Johnston is a top 10 ranked 4A school. Waukee won both of the first two meets and Nevada has won a meet already this season. Garner-Hayfield was a state qualifier a year ago and returned all of their runners. So to finish 4th amongst that field represented a good job. We did have a gap between our 4th and 5th runners but we know that we are capable of closing that. I was very pleased by the race run by Shannon Kane as she stepped forward to finish 9th. Emily Long and Kelsey Tompkins, along with Ashley Grimm, all formed a very tight knit pack. Libby McMurray had a strong final half of the race and ran the final stretch with Ashley Hanson. Becky Perin did a nice job in her first varsity race. Overall, if our girls can continue to improve, we will have an opportunity to make state. On the J.V. side, Katie Greufe had a fantastic final half mile to finish 5th and to earn a varsity position at Saturday’s meet at Carroll Kuemper. Jennie Bunkofske also ran a strong race.