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Gehring are top finishers
Kylie Tidwell was the top finisher for the girls with a 29th place finish and Grant Gehring was the top finisher for the boys with a 39th place finish at the Asotin Cross Country Island Run Invite at Chief Timothy Park. 
Tidwell had a time of 21:38.33 and was one spot ahead of Jacey Rambo who finished 30th in 21:38.54. Ciara Chaffee finished 34th in 21:51.81 with Kendra Duclos in 36th at 22:11.30 and Calli Perrin 37th in 22:12.72. As a team Prairie’s girls were 5th out of 6 full team with 121 points. There were many more schools in attendance but just 6 had enough runners to have a 5-person team. Gehring had a time of 17:06.49 for his 39th place finish. Next for Prairie was James Villamoor in 56th at 18:30.87. Luke Schwartz was 65th in 19:42.53 with Ryan Glimp in 70th in 20:07.60. Luis Flores was 72nd in 20:30.87 and Brandon Latimer was 77th in 23:01.41. As a team the boys place 11th with 268 points. In cross country scoring is done by giving points for where your top 5 runners finish with the lower the score the better. Therefore Kylie Tidwell scored 29 points, Rambo 30, Chaffee 34 and etc. Prairie also had 4 girls in the JV race as they had 15 total runners at the meet. Hope McIntire finished 5th in the JV race in 22:25.80 with Kodie Tidwell placing 8th in 23:38.52, Sierah Poxleitner 13th in 25:14.48 and Madison Ulmer 15th in 25:19.04. Coach Glen Poxleitner said he was very pleased with the effort put in. Both the boys and girls teams ran better then last year. In comparison to last year at the same meet, Grant Gehring ran 3 minutes faster, James Villamor and Brandon Latimer ran 2 minutes faster and Hope McIntire ran 2 minutes faster. “So, I think we are starting out in a great position. Some really amazing talent in our 1A district so its going to take a full team effort and continued hard work for our teams or some individuals to make it to State. I was very happy to get our first meet in and get that experience under our belts,” said Poxleitner. Poxleitner also noted the overall winner for the boys was Cole Olsen of Clearwater Valley who was running with a CV-Kamiah co-op team. “That young man can just out and out run. WOW.” Olsen had a time of 13:51.19 for the 2.7 mile course, 18 seconds ahead of second place.
The start of the JV race with Madison Ulmer, Hope McIntire, Sierah Poxleitner and Kodie Tidwell. 
The crosscountry team on the dock after the race was over Saturday. Kneeling from left are Jacey Rambo, Madison Ulmer, Kylie Tidwell and coaches Jenny Arnzen, David Young and Glenn Poxleitner. Middle from left are Sierah Poxleitner, Hope McIntire, Kendra Duclos and Kodie Tidwell. Back from left are James Villamoor, Calli Perrin, Ciara Chaffee, Brandon Latimer, Luis Flores, Luke Schwartz and Grant Gehring. Not pictured is Ryan Glimp. Apparently several of the runners decided to jump into the river after photos were taken. PRAIRIE CROSS COUNTRY 2016 SEPTEMBER 10-Asotin hosted run at Chief Timothy Park, 9:45 a.m. 17-Seaport Invite-Clarkston 21-Bob Wiesel Invite, Moscow 13-Troy Invite District-TBA 29-State at Pocatello |
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