2007 Cross Country Season Highlights

NE State Cross-Country Results:

Congratulations to Autumn Boyer and Karyn Kelly for competing well at the State Cross Country Meet held in Kearney on the 19^th. Autumn saw her high school cross country career end on a good note for her, running a very respectable 16:56 on the course, good enough for 39^th place. She has been a great leader this year for the team and will be missed. Karyn ran the course in 17:16, coming across in 56^th place. Karyn had a very good season this year, and looks forward to a strong senior campaign next fall. Good job girls on a successful season!
Boys State: Zan Loroa finished 47^th with a time of 18.15. Zan was the lone boy qualifier for SSC.

Boys B-1 District Results:
Varsity Boys
Skutt 37
Blair 37 ( Skutt wins on best 5^th)
Elkhorn 46
Ralston 48
Omaha Gross 88
South Sioux City 106
Omaha Roncalli 137

7^th Zan Loroa 17.36 Qualifies for the State Meet as an individual--32^nd David Pacheco 20.00.8-- 33rd Luis DeAnda 20.12 --33^rd Dillon Jensen 20.14 --35^th Moses Pacheco 20.19-- 41^st Sergio Guerrero 21.37

When we look at the times our kids ran we had a very good effort. It’s always nice to have someone qualify for the State Meet. Zan continues to run well as did the rest of our kids. We ran on the exact course we ran last week and our race was so much better time wise. We saw the same teams as in the Conference Meet plus Elkhorn and Blair so moving up our finish places was difficult. Last week we were disappointed in our effort but this week we were very pleased. We have had a good season and the kids have brought a good attitude and effort to practice everyday. We made some improvements in the two months of the season but allot of success is based on out of season participation in other sports and summer running.
A number of our kids are heading for wrestling in great shape, so we are excited for them to get started. Our other kids need to stay in the weight room and on the roads. Hopefully add a few more student-athletes to the cross country program.

Girls B-1 District Results:
Congratulations to Karyn Kelly and Autumn Boyer for becoming 2 time state qualifiers- Karyn finished in 5^th place, running the course in 16:55; right behind her at 17:02 was Autumn Boyer coming across in 8^th place. Alejandra Rocha (19:19) finished in 32^nd, and Hillary Palsma (21:16) finished in 43^rd place to round out the scoring. As a team, we finished in 6^th place. The girls have had a tremendous season, accomplishing things that they didn’t think or know that they could do.

River Cities Conference Cross-Country Boys Results:

Team Scoring Varsity Boys: Beatrice 24, Skutt Catholic 32, Ralston 42, Gross Catholic 75, South Sioux City 89,
Roncalli/Browell Talbot 104
SSC Places: 8^th Zan Loroa 18.14 26^th Luis Deanda 20.50 30^th David Pacheco 21.17 31^st Dillon Jensen 21.36 35^th Moses Pacheco 22.29 38^th Sergio Guerrero 22.48

As usual it was an outstanding meet. The River Cities is simply the best B Conference in the State. Beatrice has a nice team that is in contention for the State Meet Title. Skutt and Ralston always field good teams. We were disappointed in our finish and how we ran. This is the first meet that we felt we did not run well as a team. We just looked and ran ‘tired’.

River Cities Conference Cross-Country Girls Results: The girls ran in the conference meet hosted by Omaha Skutt yesterday. Going into the meet we had high expectations for the kids, and for the most part they all delivered. Karyn was leading the race until the last 100 meters, where she was caught by two girls to finish in 3^rd place with a time of 16:57. Autumn used a great kick at the end to pass a couple of girls to finish in 6^th place in 17:22. Two girls in the top 6 at conference was nice to see…especially since all of the teams but Beatrice will be in our district next week on the same course. Alejandra continues to show signs of improvement, finishing the course in 19:59 to claim the 28^th spot. Hillary is battling some leg problems, but continues to run well for us- she ran 20:35 to finish in 33^rd position. The girls finished 5^th as a team, scoring 68 points.

2007 Marsha Koebernick Memorial / SSC X-C Invitational

Boys 5k Run CC Varsity A & B	JV Boys 5k /Girls 4k Mixed CC Run
Girls 4k Run CC Varsity A & B	Middle School Boys & Girls Mixed 2000 Meter Run CC
Boys 5k Run CC Grades 9-10	Note: All Files are Adobe PDF

SSC Invite Boys Results: Even though we were 8^th in Class A we thought we ran pretty well. It was another great meet. Anytime you have four state championship caliber teams competing it’s going to be fun. Zan had another good race and continues to show improvement. Luis DeAnda had his best race of the year so that was good to see.
David and Moses are still bothered by shin splints that continue to hinder their training. Alberto is also still sore; hopefully we can get them all ready to race this week. Dillon continues to improve and will race in the Conference Meet this week.

Varisty:
16^th Zan Loroa 17.31
33^rd Alberto Ledesma 18.45
46^th David Pacheco 19.52
47^th Moses Pacheco 20.04
49^th Luis DeAnda 20.26

JV:
57^th Sergio Guerrero 22.29

9-10:
12^th Dillon Jensen 20.55

SSC Invite Girls Results: The girls competed well last night at our invitational held at Covington. This was a great meet to see where we were at, both individually and as a team; there were some phenomenal kids there last night. Leading the way again for the Lady Cards was Karyn Kelly, who ran the 4000k course in 16:32- good enough for 15^th place. Autumn Boyer was next, running 17:06 for 23^rd place. Alejandra Rocha ran the course in 18:48, and Hillary Palsma in 19:45. The meet featured some of the best teams from the tri-state area.

Crofton Invite:
It was nice to see us make some improvement. Zan ran the fastest time on the course by a South Sioux athlete breaking Nick Rectors 18.40. David Pacheco had his best race of the year. Moses and Luis all ran much better than the last time on this course. With our meet coming up this week it was nice to see our training paying off. We still have a ways to go to be competitive in the Conference and District Meets.

Boys Varsity Team Scores
Norfolk Catholic 10
Wayne 44
South Sioux City 63
Crofton 81
Ponca 92
Laurel-Concord-Colerridge 93
Creighton 118
No team-Creighton, Plainview, Bloomfield,
Hartington, Ewing, Lutheran High Northeast

SSC Places
Zan Loroa - 7th, 18:31
Alberto Ledesma - 12th, 19:32
David Pecheco - 21st 20:49
Moses Pecheco - 27th, 21:27
Luis DeAnda - 28th, 21:28

JV
14 Dillon Jensen 21.33
31 Sergio Guerrero 23.42

Middle School Boys
5 Michael Carson 11.07
7 Austin Fritza 11.17
11 Chase Love 12.05
20 Gach Tot 14.24
21 Brain Kahler 14.52
22 Nathan Hinds 15.28

Boys Scoring
SSC 18
Norfolk Catholic 20
No one else had full teams

The girls competed at the Crofton Invitational on Friday afternoon. This was a good meet for us to see where we are at- Crofton is a returning state champion team, Norfolk Catholic will be in the hunt for one, Laurel Concord is a solid team. As a team, we finished in 5^th place- 9 points out of third. Karyn and Autumn ran really, really well- Karyn finished in 5^th place with a time of 18:35, and Autumn was right behind in 7^th place with a time of 19:02. Alejandra Rocha was 22^nd in 21:42, and Hillary Palsma finished in 25^th place with a time of 22:06. We are running out of days to work out- our meet is this Thursday, Conference the next week, and then districts the next.

Girls Results: SSC was 5th with 59 pts
Karyn Kelly - 5th, 18:35
Autumn Boyer - 7th, 19:02
Alejandra Rocha - 22nd, 21:42
Hillary Palsma - 25th, 22:06

Girls
12 Emily Jimenez 12.54
15 Audra Thramer 13.06
27 Jessica Goodier 15.57
28 Hannah Comer 16.32
29 Hailey Hinds 16.39
30 Cassandra Munoz 16.52
31 Amanda Abbe 17.37

Girls Scoring
Crofton 15
Norfolk Catholic 22
South Sioux 54
No one else had a full team

City Meet
Boys Results: We were certainly better on Friday than we were on Tuesday. We did not back off our training for this meet and it showed the last mile. Zan was in the medals with his finish but was very sore from his weekend workouts. Some of our other kids are involved with out of season sports and we also still sore. Dillon had a nice race in the JV and may be ready to move up to the Varsity by the Conference and District Meets. The weather, meet organization and lack of a time schedule were all problems that need attention from the City Athletic Directors. This was the City Championship and needs to be run like one.

Varsity Team Scores
Heelan 32
North 44
West 81
South Sioux 100
East 122

Places
9^th Zan Lora 17.42
17^th Alberto Ledsema 18.53
21^st Moses Pacheco 19.07
25^th David Pacheco 19.37
28^th Luis DeAnda 20.13

JV Team Scores
North 31
Heelan 50
East 58
West 107
South Sioux No Team Score

Places
11^th Dillon Jensen 19.41
25^th Sergio Guerrero 21.53

Girls Results: The girls competed yesterday at the City Meet at Riverside Park. Despite a rainy day and a muddy course, the girls ran pretty well. We do not have five girls on the team, and in Iowa they score 5, so we did not record a team place. Individually, Karyn Kelly led the team with a 7^th place finish in a season best time of 16:10 (8 seconds off of our school record for that course) Autumn Boyer was right behind in 8^th place with a season best time of 16:15 (more than a minute faster than she has run all season) Alejandra Rocha finished with a time of 18:47, and Hillary Palsma ran the course in 19:36. The girls competed hard and are starting to realize that their hard work is paying off.

Vermillion Invitational Cross-Country Meet: Boys' Results
We thought we ran pretty well based on our times from last year. We had ten days to train so expected to see some improvement. Zan and Alberto got into the medals so that is always encouraging. Dillion and Sergio found themselves in front of the jv race and decided to stay there. We are still concerned with our depth. Moses David and Luis are all battling some injuries that have kept them from training. We still have a month of training so hopefully will continue to work hard and stay injury free.
Our middle school kids got a chance to run 4000 for the first time and we were pleased to see them compete so well.

Varsity Team scores Boys 5000 meters
Heelan 15
South Sioux 41
West Sioux 44
Vermillion no team score

Places:
3^rd Zan Lora 18.01
10^th Alberto Ledsema 19.00
15^th Moses Pacheco 19.52
17^th David Pacheco 20.04
22^nd Luis DeAnda 21.17

JV Boys Team Scores 4000 meters
South Sioux 14
Vermillion 23
Elk Point No score
West Sioux no score

Places:
1^st Dillion Jensen 16.26
2^nd Sergio Guerrero 16.54

Middle School Boys No official scoring
Michael Carson 17.23
Austin Fritza 17.41
Chase Love 19.12
Gach Tot 22.04

Middle School Girls No official scoring
Audra Thramer 20.22

Vermillion Invitational Cross-Country Meet: Girls' Results
We came away with a fifth place finish, however the girls all ran very, very well. Karyn Kelly led the way with a 9^th place finish in a season best time of 16:38, Autumn Boyer finished 15^th with a season best time of 17:17. Alejandra Rocha and Hillary Palsma finished out the scoring for the girls, with each of them running more than 2 minutes faster than they had so far this season.

SSC Cross-Country in Wayne Dual

Varsity	4000meter		Middle School	2000meter
Karyn Kelly	ssc	17:02	Martha Mitiku	wayne	8.47
Autumn Boyer	ssc	17.40	Audro Throder	ssc	10.45
Jordan Alesander	wayne	17.56	Emily Jimenez	ssc	10.55
Maddi Jager	wayne	19.08	Hailey Hinds	ssc	11.39
Anna West	wayne	20.31	Amamda Abbe	ssc	13.00
Alenjandra Rocha	ssc	21.36	Jessica Goodier	ssc	13.33
Hillary Palsma	ssc	21.58
McKayla Knudsen	ssc	24.29
Becca Dowling	wayne	24.57
Tessa Moser	wayne	26.25
SSC 16, Wayne 21

Varsity	5000meter		Middle School	2000meter
Sheldon Onderstal	wayne	18.40	Quentin Jorgensen	wayne	7.07
Zach Long	wayne	18.56	Sawyer Jager	wayne	7.41
Alberto Ledesma	ssc	19.08	Austin Fritz	ssc	7.43
Zach Thomsen	wayne	19.10.	Tony Sinnrger	wayne	7.58
Zan Lora	ssc	19.23	Michael Carson	ssc	8.01
Seth Onderstal	wayne	19.26	Chase Love	ssc	9.04
Reggie Ruhl	wayne	19.29	Brien Kahler	ssc	10.23
Jordan Barry	wayne	20.39	Alex Lopez	ssc	11.36
Taylor Carrol	wayne	20.50	Nathan Hinds	ssc	13.26
Zach Rasmussen	wayne	20.54	Gach Tot	ssc	13.41
Andi Diediker	wayne	21.10
Moses Pacheco	ssc	21.16
Riley McManus	wayne	21.26
Shawn Jenkins	wayne	21.48
David Pacheco	ssc	22.09
Luis DeAnda	ssc	22.14
Dillon Jensen	ssc	22.33
Sean Dowdle	ssc	29.40

SSC 35, Wayne 13

SSC Lady Cardinal Place 2nd in Wisner-Pilger Invite

2nd Place: Karyn Kelly led SSC with a time of 17:41
3rd Place: Autumn Boyer 18:18
17th Place: Hillary Palsma 21:29
18th Place: Alejandra Rocha 22:05

SSC Cardinals Place 4th in the Wisner Pilger Invite
Norfolk Catholic is as good of a team as we will see all year. They also have eight to ten teams run in the small class about 150 runners. It’s a good test of who has run over the summer and who did not! Between the rain days and hot weather we were not very prepared. We had a good effort from our team so we will get better. We need to improve and get some decent workouts under us. Our kids ran pretty well in comparing last year’s times.

Boys Classes B-C Team Scores

Norfolk Catholic 11
Wayne 39
West Point-Beemer 50
South Sioux City 73
Wisner Pilger 79

SSC Places

9^th Zan Lora 19.36
15^th Alberto Ledesma 20.34
24^th Luis De Anda 21.27
David Pacheco 22.22

JV Results

17^th Dillon Jensen 22.57