Chase Ferries leads a pack of Brookwood runners that includes Cole Brandau, Adrian Degenhardt and Christian Barrientos along the raceway at the Durand invite on Thursday. (Nate Beier photo | gx3media.smugmug.com)
Brookwood’s Samantha Atteln leads teammate Shelly Powell into the last 400 meters of the course at Durand on Thursday. Atteln finished 61st at Durand, but ran a team-best time at Fennimore on Saturday. (Nate Beier photo | gx3media.smugmug.com)
Allyson Nelson leads Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld’s Kassidy Frame toward the first mile marker at Fennimore on Saturday. Nelson finished 10th in the first-runners’ race. (Nate Beier photo | gx3media.smugmug.com)
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
After overcoming temperatures of nearly 90 degrees, the Brookwood boys won the small-school title at last weekend’s Fennimore relays.
Chase Ferries led the boys with a fourth-place finish in the first-runners’ race with a time of 18:08.7. More importantly, Ferries finished two spots and nearly 30 seconds ahead of Hillsboro’s lead runner, Dakota Wells, an opponent whom the Falcon runner had not beaten yet this year.
Orrie Maurhoff took third in the second-runners’ race with a time of 18:56.4, and Adrian Degenhardt matched the performance by taking third in the third-runners’ race.
Also, Christian Barrientos was fifth in the fourth-runners’ race, and Cole Brandau was fourth in the fifth-runners’ race. Colten Green and Jake Laxton ran as the sixth and seventh runners, finishing fifth and eighth, respectively.
West Salem freshman Charlie McKinney finished first in the first-runners’ race and had the best overall time at Fennimore (17:34.3). The Panthers won the boys large-school title.
Winning the girls large-school title, the Lake Mills team featured four freshmen led by Brooke Fair, who ran as the third runner and finished with the overall best time of 21:12.7. Boscobel won the small-school title. Brookwood was sixth as a team.
Samantha Atteln emerged from the third-runners’ race with Brookwood’s best time of the day on Saturday. Atteln ran the 5K race in 25:05.4, nearly a minute faster than Allyson Nelson’s time. Nelson finished 10th in the first-runners’ race.
Shelly Powell was 13th in the second-runners’ race, Hailey Schueller was 12th in the fourth-runners’ race, and Kelsey Peterson was 13th in the fifth-runners’ race.
Ingrid Ruiz and Chelsey Letcher ran as the sixth and seventh runners, finishing 11th and 13th, respectively.
Nelson leads charge at sectional site
The Brookwood cross country teams took a tour of their Division 3 sectional site last week when they traveled to Durand.
The course runs around the perimeter of the Rolling Greens Golf Course in Durand and offers slight undulation in terrain for participants. The type of course was good for Brookwood’s Allyson Nelson, who finished 18th overall with a team-best time of 24:05.8.
Atteln was 53rd overall with a time of 26:15, and Shelly Powell was 55th overall with a time of 26:26.2. Also, Ingrid Ruiz was 66th and Chelsey Letcher 72nd to finish out the scoring runners.
Elmwood/Plum City’s Kassye Todd won the girls race with a time of 20:51.2, and Aquinas took the team title with 85 points. Brookwood was 12th with 264 points.
Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran’s Dan Lau won the boys race (17:15), and La Crosse Central, which had four runners in the top 10, scored 33 points for the team win. Brookwood was 13th with 299 points.
Chase Ferries was 49th overall, leading the team with a time of 20:42.3. Orrie Maurhoff, Adrian Degenhardt, and Cole Brandau crossed the finish line together, occupying spots 57–59, respectively, and Colton Green rounded out the scoring runners, taking 76th place.
