Cross-country: Paynesville/BBE competes at LQPV invite

LONG PRAIRIE — The Paynesville girls took eighth and the Paynesville/Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys also were eighth in their respective divisions of the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Cross-Country Invitational at Long Prairie Country Club on Monday.

Melrose’s girls and St. John’s Prep’s boys were the team champions.

Melrose scored 61 points. Paynesville/BBE finished with 175.

On the boys side, St. John’s Prep had 54 and Paynesville/BBE finished with 208.

LPGE’s Caroline Kuhne took first with a time of 19 minutes, 53.20 seconds. Paynesville/BBE’s Madison Wendlandt took fourth in 21:38.30.

The boys’ winner was Brandon Kampsen of Sauk Centre, who had a time of 16:14.08.

Boys
Team scoring
(1) St. John’s Prep 54 (2) Sauk Centre 68 (3) Holdingford 71 (4) Osakis 135 (5) Melrose 142 (6) Royalton 147 (7) Morris/Chokio-Alberta 184 (8) Paynesville/Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 208 (9) Frazee 229 (10) Brandon-Evansville 246 (11) Parkers Prairie 258 (12) Pillager 321
Individual
TOP FIVE — (1) Brandon Kampsen, SC, 16:14.08 (2) Zach Meyer, SJP, 17:15.14 (3) Nick Hansen, SJP, 17:16.59 (4) James Suchy, PP, 17:47.12 (5) Dawson Hofer, Hold, 17:54.69
PAYNESVILLE/BBE — (28) Kaden Pieper 19:48.77 (29) Brady Schwinghammer 19:49.64 (49) Brandon Hess 20:51.46 (67) Gabe Hoekstra 22:10.51 (68) Alex Blonigan 22:13.37
MORRIS/CA — (16) Gavin Stallman 19:11.26 (32) Matthew Giese 20:00.16 (34) Truett Richards 20:05.79 (55) Jacob Buhl 20:57.89 (70) Pierce Richards 22:22.69

Girls
Team scoring
(1) Melrose 61 (2) Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 91 (3) Holdingford 93 (4) Morris/Chokio-Alberta 98 (5) St. John’s Prep 102 (6) Pillager 107 (7) Sauk Centre 158 (8) Paynesville/Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 175
Individual
TOP FIVE — (1) Caroline Kuehne, LPGE, 19:53.20 (2) Olivia Pauly, SJP, 20:13.76 (3) Hailey Werk, MCA, 20:43.03 (4) Madison Wendlandt, Pay, 21:38.30 (5) Julia Schmidt, Border West, 22:01.81
PAYNESVILLE/BBE — (4) Wendlandt (28) Paige Frenchick 24:58.42 (51) Tressa Lieser 28:30.75 (65) Kylie Hoekstra 32:14.54 (66) Faith Dickhausen 33:02.09
MORRIS/CA — (3) Werk (15) Kendal Fischer 23:41.36 (22) Hana Schutz 24:32.17 (31) Alayna Perkins 25:16.36 (43) Johanna Baez Sanchez 26:32.42