Published: September 20, 2008 01:08 am      

Sikkema remains unbeaten

CASCADE — Drew Sikkema of Prince of Peace successfully defended his title Friday by winning the 28-team Cascade Invitational in 17 minutes, 16 seconds. He beat runner-up Eric Thien of Tipton, the No. 1-ranked runner in Class 2A, by 9 seconds.

“Drew has been amazing this year,” Prince of Peace coach Dave Lawrence said. “He hasn’t been beaten and he is running with all the great runners in the state and leaving them behind when he needs to. He’s looking invincibile.”

Prince of Peace’s Audrey Griffin placed sixth in the girls race.

There also was a middle school race, with about 300 runners, and Prince of Peace’s Jackie Kokjohn was the overall girls winner.

Cascade Invitational

Boys

Team standings — 1. Cedar Rapids Prairie 60, 2. Cedar Rapids Xavier 84, 3. Mount Vernon 105; 4. Monticello 154; 5. Tipton 158. Also, 6. Central DeWitt 159; 7. Davenport Assumption 178; 8. Prince of Peace 237; 9. Durant-Bennett 262; 10. Western Dubuque 269; 11. Bellevue Marquette 322.

Individual leaders — 1. Drew Sikkema (POP) 17:16; 2. Eric Thien (Tipton) 17:25; 3. Alex Rigdon (Prairie) 17:32; 4. Connor Smock (MV) 17:38; 5. Tommy Harris (Assumption) 17:45. Also, 10. Frank Futselaar (Central DeWitt) 18:11; 13. Riley Bly (POP) 18:15.

Prince of Peace — 1. Sikkema 17:16; 13. Bly 18:15; 33. Eric Sikkema 19:27; 93. Stephen Peters 21:15; 97. Isaac Jankowski 21:20; 106. Joe Schnier 21:39; 108. Sean Williams 21:41.



Girls

Team standings — 1. Mount Vernon 85; 2. Dubuque Hempstead 132; 3. Cedar Rapids Xavier 164; 4. Marion 179; 5. Durant-Bennett 186. Also, 8. Bellevue Marquette 227; 15. Prince of Peace 364; 17. Central DeWitt 367.

1. Mary Menster (Assumption) 16:13; 2. Missy Miller (Tipton) 16:20; 3. April Davidshofer (Western Dubuque) 16:41; 4. Alex Wilson (Mount Vernon) 16:45; 5. Monica Kelly (Marion) 16:46; 6. Audrey Griffin (POP) 16:58;

Prince of Peace — 6. Griffin 16:58; 66. Crissy Kokjohn 18:51; 91. Katie Isenhour 19:40; Kirsten Nienhuis 92 19:40; Laura Heikkinen 109 20:46.