Jackson County Central and Martin County West both opened their cross country seasons Friday. The Huskies were in Fairmont while the Mavericks traveled to Beresford, S.D.
At the Fairmont Early Bird Invite, JCC’s girls were third in the corrected team standings and the boys were fifth.
Evan Paplow was first in the varsity boys race, with Elese Paplow leading the JCC girls with a ninth-place finish.
Neither MCW squad had a complete team.
Katie Hartke led Mavericks in the girls meet by finishing 13th and Jamesson Forsberg led the boys by placing 23rd.
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Fairmont Early Bird
Girls
Team standings
1. Marshall 20, 2. Fairmont 85, 3. Jackson County Central 92, 4. St. Peter 115, 5. Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey 127, 6. Waterville-Elysian-Morristown/Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 127, 7. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet 132.
JCC results
4000 meters
64 runners
Elese Paplow, 9th, 17:37.2; Rylie Cother, 17th, 18:34.1; Taylor Schultz, 23rd, 19:50.9; Lily Johnson, 35th, 21:29.2 ; Cailee Pauling, 39th, 21:59.8; Kylie Zischka, 59th, 25:49.0.
Boys
Team standings
1. Marshall 41, 2. Fairmont 71, 3. Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey 112, 4. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet 113, 5. Jackson County Central 115, 6. St. Peter 159, 7. St. James Area 185, 8. Waterville-Elysian-Morristown/Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 189, 9. Heron Lake-Okabena 240, 10. Blue Earth Area 254.
JCC results
4000 meters
99 runners
Evan Paplow, 1st, 13:38.3; Alvaro Gonzalez Garcia, 9th, 14:38.3; EJ Peterson, 29th, 15:56.9; Nolan Ambrose, 38th, 16:24.6; Brigan McCarthy, 45th, 16:50.0; Alex Mohning, 60th, 18:05.1; Kristoph Olsem, 68th, 18:32.5.
Garretson Invitational
Girls
MCW results
5000 meters
70 runners
Katie Hartke, 13th, 20:35.59; Liz Peterson, 57th, 24:11.69; Katelynn Kennedy, 59th, 24:17.28; Sydney Borntrager, 64th, 24:59.52.
Boys
MCW results
5000 meters
80 runners
Jamesson Forsberg, 23rd, 17:46.84; Grant Koehnen, 29th, 18:15.92 ; Riley Cole, 57th, 20:12.3.