PCM girls win team title at Pleasantville Trojan Invitational

PLEASANTVILLE — Sophomore Paige Steenhoek and freshman Tiffani Koonce both medaled, all seven varsity finishers were in the top 30 and PCM’s girls’ cross country team won the championship at the Pleasantville Trojan Invitational on Sept. 15.

Steenhoek was the runner-up and Koonce finished third as the Mustangs won the team title with 52 points.

Central Decatur was next with 66 and the only other two teams to score less than 100 points were Mount Ayr (95) and Lynnville-Sully (98).

On the boys’ side, PCM was fifth with 141 points. Clarke also scored 141 points but took fourth because it had a sixth runner.

Class 2A No. 9 Central Decatur won the title with 33 points, while Colfax-Mingo had 83 points in second.

Grand View Christian was third with 102. Positions four through seven were separated by only four points as Interstate 35 (142) was sixth and Lynnville-Sully (145) took seventh.

Steenhoek’s runner-up time was clocked at 20 minutes, 26 seconds. She trailed Class 1A No. 30 J’Lyn Knutson by 9 seconds.

Koonce was third in 21:33.

Koonce was followed by sophomore Riley DeVore (23:01) in 18th and sophomore Jillian Fairbanks (23:22), senior Margo Chipps (23:32) and junior Taryn Steenhoek (23:44) in 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively.

The final varsity runner was junior Delaney Baird in 27th with a time of 24:13.

Other PCM finishers included sophomore Sophia Steenhoek (25:51) in 37th, sophomore Cate Humpal (26:39) in 45th, junior Hanna Townley (28:47) in 57th and sophomore Teagan Glover (33:36) in 71st.

Winning the boys’ 5K race was 1A No. 3 Randy Jimenez of Southeast Warren as he finished in 15:33.

The runner-up was 2A No. 7 William Gillis of Central Decatur in 16:02.

PCM’s top finisher was sophomore newcomer Caden Bouwkamp as he was 21st in his first-ever high school race. He finished in 19:28.

Junior Kyle Sanders was 25th in 19:38 and senior Beau Webb finished 31st in 20:05. Senior Garin Padget came in 32nd with a time of 20:10 and senior Colton St. Pierre was 61st in 22:36.

The Mustangs’ next meet is at home at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Gateway Recreation Golf Course in Monroe.