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Lane Thompson knocked 20 seconds off his time from the Havre meet. He finished in 14th place with a time of 19:14.31.
Dylan Hlad enters the final third of the boys' race during the Glasgow Invitational at Kiwanis Park in Fort Peck Sept. 17.
Haylly Turner nears the end of the girls cross country run at the Glasgow Invitational Sept. 17 in Fort Peck at Kiwanis Park
Kimber Dulaney strides through the home stretch of the girls race at the Glasgow Invitational cross country meet at Kiwanis Park Sept. 17.
Both the boys and girls Scottie cross country teams placed second at their home meet Sept. 17 at Kiwanis Park in Fort Peck on a beautiful and mild day making for perfect running conditions.
The Glasgow boys earned 45 points, a single point behind Custer County. Havre took third with 65 points; Poplar fourth with 83; Fort Benton fifth at 120 and Scobey earned 129 points for sixth place. Nineteen teams competed in the boys race.
The Scottie girls took second place out of 18 schools with 65 points. Custer County won with 55. Havre scored 72 points for third followed by Poplar, 83; Scobey, 130; Culbertson, 143; Chinook, 145; Richey-Lambert, 214, and Brockton, 226.
Reed Larsen knocked nearly eight seconds off his time from the Havre Invitational. He took second place overall with his time of 16:42.03 out of 64 varsity boys. Kyler Holinde finished in seventh place at 18:09.92.
Lane Thompson took 14th place at 19:14.31, just over 20 seconds better than his time in Havre. "My hip's been feeling better and better with every week of practice! Slowly been working my way up to where I was last year and plan to not stop until I get there. I'm very excited and thankful to to be able to compete again, even though I could have done better. I plan to continue to improve my time by 20-30 seconds a meet as I get in shape until I reach the 17s," he told the Courier in his second week back competing.
KJ Ingram was close behind Thompson with a time of 19:17.78 and 17th place. Ted See ran a 20:20.69, a 25-second improvement from the previous week, for 21st place.
Eli Feezell ran a 21:09.51 for 29th place and Kyler Whitman rounded out the varsity boys with a time of 22:53.50 and a 44th place finish.
Tanae Baker and Emily See led the Scottie varsity girls with first and second places, respectively. Baker ran a 19:37.05 and See finished in 19:45.88 out of 71 varsity girls.
Kimber Dulaney finished in 16th place with a time of 22:03.00. Dulaney, who is still adjusting from the change from 1.5-mile middle school run to the 5,000-meter high school race, had hoped to improve her time from the previous week but held steady.
"I started off the race too fast," she said, noting her pacing went from a 6-plus minute mile in the first third to over an 8-minute mile in the second stretch. "But I tried to speed up the last part," she said of her 7-plus minute final leg.
Dulaney hopes to keep improving this season with the help of her new teammates. "They're very encouraging. They like to yell a lot," she laughed.
Riley Evenson-Glasoe knocked over a minute off her time from Havre, finishing in 22nd at 23:16.91. Kheyerah Bilger trimmed nearly a minute-and-a-half from her time in Havre finishing in 23:26.62 and 28th place.
Caylen Jankowski took 32nd with a time of 24:19.35, a 40-second improvement from the previous week. Haylly Turner's 25:33.04, over a minute better than her Havre time, put her in 42nd place as the final Scottie varsity girl.
Glasgow's JV boys team took second place with 36 points, behind Custer County's 19 points.
Adam Mickelson led the team in fourth place with a time of 21:30.00 followed by James Seekins in fifth at 21:43.14, out of 21 competitors.
Owen Thompson ran a 23:21.33 for 12th place and Malin Beck came in 14th at 23:52.10. Dylan Hlad finished in 19th place with a time of 26:00.86.
The Scottie JV girls finished in third, with all JV teams turning in incomplete scores.
Mary Dykema led the squad with a time of 27:12.39 and sixth place out of 16 runners. Josie Kemp took 11th place at 29:01.85. Eve Stone finished in 15th with a time of 34:29.47.
This week the Scottie harriers will be in Frazer Thursday, Sept. 22, on Old Indian Highway with the elementary race starting at 4:15 p.m. and in Culbertson Saturday, Sept. 24, with races beginning at 10 a.m.
Dulaney said she was looking forward to the Frazer meet because the course features hills. "They don't bother me," she said. She is also looking forward to seeing her teammates take on the more challenging course with hills, "[Tanae Baker] just floats over them."
Thompson said, "I'm very excited to watch and help the younger kids run and push them to the best of their abilities. Can't'wait for the end of the season to run one last race at state and make it the best one yet too."
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