Glacier, FHS 3rd in x-country

The Daily Inter Lake

BUTTE - The Glacier girls and Flathead boys turned in solid performances to finish third at the Butte Invitational cross country meet Saturday at Highland View Golf Course.

Glacier, led by Heather Fraley's seventh-place time (19:17.87), wound up with a 117 total. Bozeman, 27, finished first with Helena second, 101.

"We just ran up to our capabilities today," Glacier coach Mike McLean said.

"I'm very, very pleased with our third-place finish. We'll keep working, and hopefully, keep moving up."

Flathead's girls placed fourth, 136. Rose Byrne had the best showing for the Bravettes, finishing 13th (19:59.68).

"That was her best time (of the season)," Flathead coach Paul Jorgensen said.

"She ran real aggressive, so that was even better."

The Bravettes are still missing three varsity runners, due to illness or injury.

"Hopefully pretty soon," Jorgensen said of getting those runners back.

"We've been without a full varsity team for three weeks now."

The FHS boys totaled a 109 score to finish behind first-place Bozeman, 73, and Helena Capital, 107.

Leif Castren paced FHS, placing fifth (16:14.29).

"Leif continues to run fairly well," Jorgensen said.

"The boys keep getting better and better. Our second through seventh runner are only 36 seconds apart."

Glacier tied Helena High for fourth, both with 117, but ended up fifth on a tiebreaker.

Mark Fallon led the Wolfpack, finishing ninth (16:38.44).

"We'd love to beat a couple more teams up there (ahead of us)," McLean said.

"Our team was capable of being second today. That might be greedy, but we were only 10 points out of second place."

In the middle school race, Troy Fraley of Kalispell Middle School won the 2-mile run with a time of 12:37. There were 89 runners in that race.

Boys

Team Totals

1, Bozeman, 73. 2, Helena Capital, 107. 3, Flathead, 109. 4, Helena High, 117. 5, Glacier 117. 6, Butte, 134, 7, Manhattan 136. 8, Manhattan Christian 230. 9, Three Forks, 264.

Individual Results

1, Ethan Shrader, Butte, 15:56.10. 2, Gavin Owens, Ennis, 16:03.88. 3, Mike Asay, Manhattan, 16:05.11. 4, Jager Warner, Townsend, 16:08.77. 5, Leif Castren, Flathead, 16:14.29. 6, Jordan Schendler, Bozeman, 16:21.25. 7, Matt Barker, Helena, 16:35.37. 8, Josh Panasuk, Butte, 16:36.78. 9, Mark Fallon, Glacier, 16:38.44. 10, Hunter Bossler, Capital, 16:39.79.

11, Dan Howell, Glacier, 16:46.39. 12, Ryan Blomback, Manhattan, 16:49.44. 13, John Gilboy, Capital, 16:53.50. 14, Ethan Wilhelm, Bozeman, 16:55.16. 15, Ryan Dejarlais, Bozeman, 16:57.33. 16, Chris Nichols, Capital, 16:59.08. 17, Akeo Mayfield-Carucci, Bozeman, 17:01.25. 18, Colten McCullough, Helena, 17:01.62. 19, Travis Buttelman, Three Forks, 17:03.42. 20, Logan Shrader, Butte, 17:05.76.

21, Terrance Takeshorse, Bozeman, 17:07.73. 22, Eric Patyk, Flathead, 17:08.34. 23, Hunter Schutt, Flathead, 17:09.71. 24, Dan Burfeind, Glacier, 17:11.87. 25, Franck Preston, Bozeman, 17:14.24.

Also

27, Andy Wilson, Flathead, 17:18.15; 32, Caleb Allen-Schmid, Flathead, 17:34.49. 33, Rich Boyer, Glacier, 17:34.84. 36, Shawn Lau, Flathead, 17:39.86. 38, Brett Harrison, Flathead, 17:44.01. 40, Garrett Foot, Glacier, 17:45.36. 52, Flint Martino, Glacier, 18:47.00. 53, Zach Peterson, Glacier, 18:52.74.

Girls

Team Totals

1, Bozeman, 27. 2, Helena, 101. 3, Glacier, 117. 4, Flathead, 136. 5, Helena Capital, 145. 6, Butte, 146. 7, Manhattan, 214. 8, Boulder, 246.

Individual Results

1, Heidi Turner, Bozeman, 17:45.20. 2, Keli Dennehy, Butte, 17:45.62. 3, Katie Keith, Bozeman, 18:56.35. 4, Mara Menahan, Helena, 19:10.40. 5, Anna Metropoulos, Helena, 19:13.94. 6, Mariah Schmidt, Bozeman, 19:16.39. 7, Heather Fraley, Glacier, 19:17.87. 8, Faith Steinbacher, Bozeman, 19:20.47. 9, Katie Gill, Bozeman, 19:31.68. 10, Chloe Palakovich, Whitehall, 19:40.66.

11, Natalie Flowes, Bozeman, 19:44.32. 12, Shannon Young, Harrison, 19:50.16. 13, Rose Byrne, Flathead, 19:59.68. 14, Sierra Kamplain, Bozeman, 20:00.01. 15, Brittany Johnson, Boulder, 20:00.47. 16, Makayla Mitchell, Glacier, 20:10.98. 17, Alex McBroom, Capital, 20:15.58. 18, Racheal Hart, Glacier, 20:18.51. 19, Kayla McMahon, Capital, 20:28.52. 20, Becca VanDam, Manhattan Christian, 20:41.72.

21, Hannah MacFarlane, Flathead, 20:50.43. 22, Sarah Keller, Manhattan, 20:53.10. 23, Morgan Wines, Gardiner, 20:56.61. 24, Amy Bischoff, Helena, 20:57.69. 25, Audrey Harper, Capital, 20:59.60.

Also

28, Kathleen Barth, Flathead, 21:02.73; 34, Brit Clark, Glacier, 21:53.58. 35, Hannah Anderson, Flathead, 21:56.50. 39, Cheyenne Cook, Flathead, 22:06.47. 42, Stacey Pitt, Glacier, 22:15.88. 46, Nicole Brist, Glacier, 22:37.31. 51, Brynn Meuchel, Glacier, 22:55.33.