Martin County West’s Ryan Pierson was the winner of the boys race at the Valley Conference cross country meet Monday at Madelia City Park. The senior topped the field of 40 finishers with a 5K time of 16:20.70.
Kate Hartke led the Mavericks in the girls meet by finishing third out of 32 finishers in 21:12.64. Winning the girls race was Valerie Quast of Loyola/Cleveland/St. Clair with a time of 19:16.38.
MCW was second in the girls team standings and fourth in the boys.
The Mavericks will compete in the Section 2A meet Thursday, Oct. 26 at Norwood Young America.
Boys
Team standings
1. Loyola/Cleveland/St. Clair 30, 2. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet 57, 3. Madelia/Truman/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Martin Luther 66, 4. Martin County West 81.
MCW results
40 finishers
Ryan Pierson, 1st, 16:20.70; Grant Koehnen, 5th, 17:26.90; Hayden O'Connor, 33rd, 22:08.00; Kaleb Kennedy, 34th, 22:08.70; David Taylor, 39th, 23:37.40.
Girls
Team standings
1. Loyola/Cleveland/St. Clair 28, 2. Martin County West 37, 3. Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet 65.
MCW results
32 finishers
Katie Hartke, 3rd, 21:12.64; Maddison Lyon, 5th, 22:24.91; Evelynn Christenson, 6th, 22:44.53; Katelynn Kennedy, 8th, 22:57.62; Hannah Cole, 16th, 25:02.65; Paige Hartwig, 20th, 25:11.98; Eva Miranda, 21st, 25:54.43.