Sibley, Ia (KICD) – Sibley-Ocheyedan hosted their home Invitational Cross Country Meet at the Sibley Golf Course Tuesday night.

The evening started with the Girls Race. Nora Peterson from Alta-Aurelia dominated, posting a time of 18:37.47 to place 1st. Peterson enjoyed the competition.

Amadelaid Benetiz led the way for Sibley-Ocheyedan and was the second highest KICD area finisher, placing 4th wtih a time of 21:39.07.

Other KICD area runners in the top 10 include Hayden Berkland of Alta-Aurelia clocking 21:55.6 in 6th, her teammate Breyer Anderson right behind her in 7th with a time of 22:00.07, and Aleah Marco of Sibley-Ocheyedan taking 9th with a time of 22:32.92.

Alta-Aurelia won the meet with 45 points. The Warriors are made up of a lot of dual sport athletes on both the girls and boys teams, Petersen broke down how they handle day-to-day practice.

Okoboji was the only other KICD area group with a full scoring team, they took 4th with 91 points.

In the Boys race, Okoboji’s Evan Osler won with a time of 17:00.36. Osler says the Pioneers were coming in hoping to win the meet.

Sibley-Ocheyedan’s Ben Byers finished 2nd with a time of 17:09.49. The top for hung around each other for most of the race. Byers is comfortable with that high level of competition.

Other KICD area runners in the top 10 were Okoboji’s Trigg Heimdal in 3rd with a time of 17:13.91, Michael Wassenaar of Sheldon in 5th with 17:44.13, Tyson Fear of Okoboji in 7th at 17:59.32 with teammate Ryker Ballis right behind him in 8th at 18:06.12, and Sheldon’s Lewis Schaeffer finished 10th at 18:10.54.

Okoboji routed the team score, placing all 5 runners in the top 15 to score 33 points. The Pioneers have delt with some injuries in the past few years at this point, Osler talked about what Okoboji has been doing to try and prevent that.

Sheldon was 2nd in the Boys race with 62, followed by Sibley-Ocheyedan with 98. Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn took 7th with 195, MMCRU was 10th, Alta-Aurelia 11th, and South O’Brien 14th.

Sibley-Ocheyedan Coach Ryan Wiersma talked about the competition at their home invitational.

We will have other Cross Country results and Volleyball scores coming up at 8:20 on News Radio 102.5 and AM 1240 KICD as well as posted on Northwest Iowa Now.com