The USC/A-C Rebels girls’ and boys’ cross country teams competed at the Pine Island Invitational on Thursday.

The girls finished in fifth place as a team, behind some of the better Class A teams from southeastern Minnesota. Rochester Lourdes won the meet with 46 points followed by Farmington with 69 and Chatfield with 100.

Leading the Rebels was Andree Escherich with a 14th place finish in the field of 87 runners with a time of 15:58.

The boys finished sixth as a team, and were led by Jordan Haroldson’s second place finish. Farmington won the meet with a score of 60 points, and Plainview-Elgin-Millville finished closely behind with 61 points and Lourdes had 90 points.

 “We got hit pretty good by the cold bug last week,” Rebels head coach Kent Viesselman said, “So we weren’t quite up to par. But, we got to see some of the teams from that corner of the state.”

 
Girls’ Teams:

1. Rochester Lourdes 46

2. Farmington 69

3. Chatfield 100

4. LARP 106

5. USC/A-C 116

6. PEM 140

7. Zumbrota-Mazeppa 155

8. Pine Island 203

9. Cannon Falls inc

 
Girls’ Varsity Finishers:

14. Andree Escherich 15:58

22. Abby Trio 16:27

25. Amber Erickson 16:37

30. Hannah Goemann 16:49

36. Lindsay Johnson 17:05

59. Rachel Levine 18:22

66. Jenna Stevermer 19:26

78. Joellen Mueller 20:46

            (87 runners)

 
 

Boys’ Team Standings:

1. Farmington 60

2. PEM 61

3. Lourdes 90

4. Zumbrota-Mazeppa 93

5. LARP 95

6. USC/AC 132

7. Chatfield 175

8. Pine Island 185

9. Cannon Falls 263

 
Boys Varsity Finishers

2. Jordan Haroldson 15:39

26. Jon Back 17:35

28. Tom Allis 17:45

39. Daniel Elmer 18:38

43. Seth Treptow 18:44

63. John-Mark Dundas 19:34

67. Aaron Goemann 19:38

69. Riley Niebuhr 19:40

70. Brian Klein 19:40

85. Thane O’Rourke 20:04

            (126 runners)