Tiger runners host St. James Invitational

ST. JAMES – Owensville and Cuba won the boys’ and girls’ varsity team titles respectively on Thursday, Sept. 27 at the St. James Cross Country Invitational, held at the St. James Golf Course.

The event included 14 schools.

Owensville won the boys’ varsity race with 60 points followed by Cuba with 68, Sullivan 90 and Dixon 110. Cuba won the girls’ varsity race with 44 points while Owensville was second with 52, Union and Sullivan tied for third with 127 and Salem was fifth with 168. In the boys’ junior varsity race Owensville was first with 61 followed by Hermann with 84, Cuba 86 and Sullivan 121. In the boys’ junior high race (1.6 miles) Washington won with 66 points while St. Clair had 71. In the girls’ junior high race Cuba won with 35 points.

Owensville’s David Koppelmann was the meet medalist in the boys’ varsity meet with a time of 18:16. For St. James in the varsity race junior Clark Martensen won his first varsity medal by placing 18^th at 20:20 while Brandon Ragland was 23^rd at 20:43.

In the girls’ varsity race Cuba’s Paige Kruse was the winner. For St. James senior Jessica Morris was 26^th overall at 27:28.

Belle’s Will Moore was the boys’ junior varsity medalist with 19:36. For St. James Derek Perona placed fifth overall at 21:29 while Pat Leubbert was sixth at 21:30.

In the boys’ junior high race St. James eighth-grader Caleb Martensen was fifth overall at 10:08 while St. James seventh-graders Wes Vanbibber was 37^th, Andrew Huggins 41^st and Levi Auxier 47^th.

St. James is to run again Tuesday, Oct. 2 at the Cuba Invitational, starting at 4 p.m.

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