ZEARING — Zoey Gliem, Matt Richardson and Max Handorf all finished in the top five of their respective races during the Colo-NESCO Cross Country Invitational on Thursday.
Only the Baxter boys had a full team due to Homecoming activities, but Gliem finished second in the girls’ 5K race.
Richardson and Handorf were 3-4 in the boys’ race and that helped the Bolts place third as a team.
Ankeny Christian Academy won the team title with 27 points, while South Hamilton (50) was seven points better than Baxter (57) in second.
The rest of the five-team field included host Colo-NESCO (111) and Meskwaki Settlement School (121).
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Ankeny Christian Academy placed six runners in the top 11 positions. Alex Davis won the race in 17 minutes, 54.79 seconds and his teammate, Daniel Schoening, was the runner-up 18:01.15.
Richardson’s third-place finish was clocked in 18:04.14 and Handorf was fourth in 18:27.93.
Maddox Peters (20:33.88), Logan Rainsbarger (21:34.08) and Logan Jones (21:39.08) were the final scoring runners in 14th, 19th and 20th, respectively.
Dakota Parker (22:47.84) and Austin England (31:40.52) were non-scoring runners in 29th and 51st, respectively.
The Colfax-Mingo boys had only four runners. Owen Ament led the way in 23rd with a time of 22:01.98.
John McGill (22:09.98), Austin Lane (22:46.72) and Asher Knutson (32:15.86) finished 25th, 28th and 52nd, respectively.
On the girls’ side, South Hamilton won the title with 33 points and North Tama (40) and Ankeny Christian Academy (50) completed the three-team field.
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Gliem’s runner-up time was clocked in 23:33.64. Colo-NESCO’s Elizabeth Erickson won the girls’ 5K race in 22:33.83.
The other two Bolts were Regan Russell (28:51.38) in 22nd and Lauren McKibbin (30:31.04) in 31st.
Colfax-Mingo’s foursome included Devan Chadwick (27:14.79) in 14th and Rachael Uecker (27:51.96) in 17th.
The other two runners were Bianca Lane (29:31.81) in 25th and Lilyan Hadsall (29:36.4) in 27th.