New Glarus-Monticello Girls Third, Boys Eighth at Baertschi

Five New Glarus-Monticello girls finished inside the large-school division’s top 25, while Dylan Gardner and Benjamin Biank led a boys lineup that battled through a deep field Saturday at the Baertschi Invitational in Albany, Wisconsin.

New Glarus-Monticello Girls Third, Boys Eighth at Baertschi
New Glarus-Monticello cross country athletes competed Saturday at the Baertschi Invitational in Albany, with runners taking on a muddy, wet course in varsity and junior varsity races. Pictured from left are Dylan Gardner, Holly Maynard, Sadie Mitchell and Mya Clark. – Photo courtesy New Glarus School District

ALBANY, Wis. — New Glarus-Monticello turned in a pair of strong varsity team performances Saturday at the Baertschi Invitational, with the girls placing third and the boys finishing eighth in the large-school division at the Fred and Dorothy Baertschi/Scott and Jed Keepers Course.

The girls stacked five scoring runners inside the division’s top 25 and finished with 81 points, trailing only Monroe with 36 and Platteville with 59. New Glarus-Monticello was comfortably ahead of fourth-place Oregon, which finished with 117.

Freshman Sadie Mitchell led the Glarner Knights with a third-place finish in the large-school division, covering the 5,000-meter course in 21 minutes, 14.3 seconds. Senior Holly Maynard followed in 12th at 22:03.1, freshman Esther Biank was 18th at 22:30.3, freshman Adayla Babler placed 23rd at 22:43.7 and sophomore Lucy Sidwell completed the scoring five in 25th at 22:51.1.

New Glarus-Monticello also had senior Mirielle Smith finish 38th in 24:18.3 and sophomore Hadley Ness take 41st in 24:24.3, giving the girls seven finishers in the varsity large-school race.

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