Warrior Runners Earn 7 Medals; Girls Team Finishes 2nd

All six Neligh-Oakdale varsity girls earned medals to finish as the runner up team, and one varsity boy also brought home some hardware from the Niobrara Cross Country Meet on Thursday.

Varsity medalists for the girls team were Kasi Grosserode, 6th (24:20); Madi Grosserode, 7th (24:21); Jayda Chance, 9th (25:15); Rachel Higgins, 13th (26:26); Alexis Jensen, 15th (27:11); and Brittany McConnell, 20th (32:19). Hailey Bixler, JV runner for the girls, turned in a time of 26:49.

Cole Belitz led the way for the Warrior boys, finishing in 8th place with a time of 19:21. He was followed by Cameron Wilkinson in 24th; Christian Carothers, 36th; Logan McConnell, 37th; and Jose Luna, 41st.

The junior high boys team also had two medalists, Griffin Claussen, 3rd (5:34) and Talon Krebs, 6th (5:51). Rounding out the junior high team were Isaias Juarez, 11th (5:56); Thomas Johnson 15th (6:10); Ashton Higgins 17th (6:17); and Vance Chance, 19th (6:27). Mercedes Heckert, finished 24th with a time of 9:59 for the junior high girls.

Neligh-Oakdale will travel to Butte next Thursday to compete in the Boyd County Invite.​