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By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
WASECA – The New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva cross country teams faced some stiff competition at Lakeside Country Club in Waseca last Thursday.
Coach Mike Weber’s Panther boys topped a pair of conference foes to finish seventh among nine teams.
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The Waseca Bluejays had an easy time capturing their own championship. The Bluejays had four of the first nine runners across the finish line for 33 points, 23 fewer than runner-up Faribault.
NRHEG, which was last among six teams last season, placed seventh among nine teams with 194 points. The Panthers beat conference foes Blooming Prairie and Waterville-Elysian-Morristown/Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton.
“We ran well as a team,” said Weber. “We were happy with a seventh-place finish in a highly competitive field.”
Waseca sophomore Shane Streich, ranked second in the state among Class A runners, breezed to an easy win over the 5,000-meter course. Streich’s winning time was 15:43.
T.J. Schiltz continued to pace the Panther runners, finishing second among 57 runners with a 16:10 clocking.
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NRHEG football team leads most of first half but falls 38-6 at Waterville
OPEN FIELD RUNNING — Spencer Tollefson of NRHEG breaks a tackle and runs free in the WEM secondary at Waterville last Friday. The Panthers host St. Charles for Homecoming this week. (Star Eagle photo by Chris Schlaak)
By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
WATERVILLE – The New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team did its best to scare the heavily favored Waterville-Elysian-Morristown football team for the Buccaneer homecoming game Friday.
But, after shocking the Bucs early, the Panthers turned the ball over three times inside their 20-yard line and watched WEM score 38 unanswered points. The result was a 38-6 Buccaneer victory.
WEM won its fourth game in a row, improving to 3-0 in the AA Gopher/Valley Conference and 4-1 overall.
NRHEG’s long season continued. Coach Dan Stork’s Panthers are 0-4 in the conference and 0-5 for the year.
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Schiltz takes first at BP, Janesville
STRONG START — NRHEG’s T.J. Schiltz and Adam Anderson take off at the start of last week’s Grizzly Invite at Janesville. (Star Eagle photos by Chris Schlaak)
By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
Coach Mike Weber’s New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva cross country teams continued to show improvement in a pair of meets last week.
T.J. Schiltz and Katharine Lewer continued to pace their respective squads. Schiltz won both races he ran during the week, while Lewer cracked the top six finishers in her two events.
The NRHEG boys placed sixth at Blooming Prairie and third in Janesville. The boys have an overall record of 3-47 in their five starts.