Published: October 07, 2008 10:34 am            

Sikkema, Griffin each take wins at Marquette Invite

BELLEVUE — Once again, Drew Sikkema and Audrey Griffin turned in stellar performances to lead the Prince of Peace cross country teams.

Each took first in their respective races at the Bellevue Marquette Co-Ed Cross Country Invitational on Monday.

Sikkema won the boys’ portion of the meet with a time of 16:54, while Griffin was tops in the girls’ race with a clocking of 16:02.

The Durant boys won the team title, while the host Mohawks won the girls’ portion behind Katie Flogel’s second place finish.

The Irish boys were just three points behind Durant in the team scores.

Marquette’s Brandt Moore finished 14 seconds behind Sikkema for runner-up honors, while Prince of Peace’s Riley Bly was just nine seconds behind Moore in third place.

Camanche’s Codie Adams finished fourth to the trio of Sikkema, Moore and Bly.

Bellevue Marquette (third), Camanche (fourth), North Cedar (fifth) and Midland (sixth) rounded out the boys’ team stadnings.

The Prince of Peace girls took third, while Camanche was fourth.

Andrew’s Anne Bruno took third, while Camanche’s Lorena Temple was fourth.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE CO-ED CROSS COUNTRY INVITATIONAL

BOYS

Team scores

1, Durant 49; 2, Prince of Peace 52; 3, Bellevue Marquette 64; 4, Camanche 98; 5, North Cedar 159; 6, Midland 198.

Individual top ten

1, Drew Sikkema (Prince of Peace); 2, Brandt Moore (Bellevue Marquette); 3, Riley Bly (Prince of Peace); 4, Codie Adams (Camanche); 5, Joel Lincoln (Durant); 6, Adam Herrig (Bellevue Marquette); 7, Deane Wichett (Durant); 8, Eric Sikkema (Prince of Peace); 9, Zach Henningsen (Preston); 10, Logan Keese (Durant).

Prince of Peace results

1, D. Sikkema 16:54; 3, Bly 17:23; 8, E. Sikkema 18:34; 19, Stephen Peters 19:45; 21, Isaac Jankowski 19:53; 33, Konnor Lemke 20:50; 40, Joe Schnier 21:23.

GIRLS

Team scores

1, Bellevue Marquette 46; 2, Durant 50; 3, Prince of Peace 80; 4, Camanche 116; 5, North Cedar 137; 6, Bellevue 138.

Individual top ten

1, Audrey Griffin (Prince of Peace); 2, Katie Flogel (Bellevue Marquette); 3, Anne Bruno (Andrew); 4, Lorena Temple (Camanche); 5, Katie Meyer (Durant); 6, Emily Wichett (Durant); 7, Paige Dougherty (Bellevue Marquette); 8, Kaitlyn Keane (Durant); 9, Nicole Borenberg (North Cedar); 10, Andrea Frank (Bellevue Marquette).

Prince of Peace results

1, Audrey Griffin 16:02; 15, Kirsten Nienhuis 18:10; 18, Chrissy Kokjohn 18:18; 21, Katie Isenhour 18:25; 25, Sina Stephen 19:24; 30, Laura Heikkinen 19:44.

        

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