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With six of the top 10 individual scores in the conference for week two of competition, the team from NRHEG passed up previous leader Hermantown to take over the top spot in Conference 6 of the MSHSCTL fall season.

The team was led once again by Waseca student Sam Bartz, who recorded a nearly perfect 49/50 targets broken. He was followed by NRHEG student Frank Altrichter, who broke 48/50. Bartz and Altrichter currently sit #1 and #2 in the conference for individual average. Another NRHEG student, Tyler Raimann is in the #3 spot and they are joined by six other team members all in the top 25.

The NRHEG High School cross country teams ran at the Waseca Invitational Thursday, Oct. 2.

The boys finished eighth among nine squads while the girls were last out of six schools.

Tyler Schlaak continued to lead the boys, taking 37th in 19:21, but Josh Fleming was right on his heels in 39th with a time of 19:29. Following for NRHEG: Zach Mely, 43rd, 19:43; Brenden McMann, 51st, 20:39; Ben Lewer, 54th, 20:50.

Faribault won the boys’ meet with 36 points, followed by Waseca with 45 and Jordan 47. The Panthers had 224 points, defeating Medford.

It was Homecoming week at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, and that was bad news for the NRHEG volleyball team, which lost 3-0 to their fired-up arch-rivals at Waterville Thursday, Oct. 2. The Panthers hung in there in the first game, falling 25-21, but were blown out in games two and three, 25-9 and 25-6.

For the Panthers: Anna Stork 4 kills; Marnie Wagner 3 kills, 7 digs; Maddie Wagner 2 kills, 9 digs; Anna Lundberg 7 assists, 2; Hailey Schuller 4 assists, 4 digs; Alyssa Esplan 12 digs.

Coach Onika Peterson’s Panthers, winners of six of their last eight matches, played Blooming Prairie Tuesday. They travel to Faribault to face state powerhouse Bethlehem Academy Thursday, Oct. 9.