Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Scottie runner Iris McKean (c) chases Scottie Blake Lloyd (r) and leads Scottie runner Reed Larsen (l) in Sidney in late August.
Both teams of Glasgow Scottie Harriers picked up the number one spot at the Poplar Invitational on Sept. 5. The wins were made possible by the fact that the top five runners for the boys all placed in the top 16 with four of the five in the top nine. For the girls the top five all placed in the top 20 with the top three among the first 10 runners to finish.
That really helped the boys said junior Bergen Miller. "Having all our guys so close together and so close to the front puts a huge gap between us and everyone else," explained Miller. In the end, the Scotties fielded a team of eight boys and all of them finished in the top 30 and seven in the top 20 out of nine schools and more than 50 runners.
The day was not without surprises for Miller, who came in expecting to run the same course as years prior, but was caught off guard by a large hill for the first three-quarters of a mile. Still that did not deter the Scotties from racing the course well.
"Our team was kinda killing it," exclaimed the junior.
The Scotties will head to Havre next to compete in a large meet with a variety of classes to run against. Miller said the challenge should really show where the Scotties stand in the state since so far this season they have competed mostly against far east schools in Sidney and Poplar, so he anticipates Havre having a wider draw and more competition.
"The competition [in Havre] will be new, it should give some better perspective," said Miller.
For freshman Emily See, Poplar was a good day. The young runner came out running to take the sixth spot overall and earn her varsity letter for the year to boot with a time of 23:37. See was the number two runner for the girls behind first-place overall Iris McKean who ran a blistering 19:50.40 in Poplar.
See described the day as "pretty good" and cited the double first place finishes for the teams. "We all dropped our times," she said, "so that's definitely good." With lettering out of the way the freshman is hoping to shave her time throughout the season aiming to ultimately get down to the 22-minute mark.
The Scotties will race again in Havre on Sept. 11.
Results:
Boys: Glasgow 39, Richey-Lambert 52, Poplar 76, Plentywood NS, Circle NS, Brockton NS, Scobey NS, Culbertson NS, Fairview NS
Carl Zabrocki 2nd 18:06. 96
Bergen Miller 4th 18:32.20
Lane Thompson 8th 19:35.50
Reed Larsen 9th 19:48.84
Eli Feezell 16th 21:07.57
Blake Lloyd 18th 21:29.39
Riley Smith 20th 21: 36.23
Colter Cumber 27th 22:38.95
Girls: Glasgow 53, Culbertson 95, Poplar 96, Scobey 122, Fairview 153, Malta 175, Richey-Lambert NS, Brockton NS, Circle NS, Whitewater NS, Westby-Grenora NS, Dodson NS
Iris McKean 1st 19:50.40
Emily See 6th 23:37.16
Kira Beck 10th 25:11.14
Eve Stone 16th 26:50.92
Haylly Turner 20th 27:17.99
Shanice Lagerquist 37th 31:17.28
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