Tigers Cruise To Home Meet Win, Three Finish In Top-6

 MONTICELLO — The Tipton Boy’s Cross-Country team won their second and third meets of the season last week with wins in their home invitational on Tuesday and at Monticello last Saturday. The Tigers maintain their top spot in the Class 2A rankings.

 At Monticello, Tipton was the top team in the final team standings with a team score of 47. Second-placed Western Dubuque scored 56 and Center Point-Urbana was third with 88 points.

 There were seven ranked teams at the meet. In Class 3A, 14th ranked CPU; in Class 2A, No. 1 Tipton, No. 6 Monticello, No. 7 Camanche, and No.
13 Mid-Prairie; and in Class 1A, No. 3 Maquoketa Valley. Also at the meet was Western Dubuque who is in the “others to watch” category in Class 3A. In all, there were 15 scoring teams at the meet.

 The Tigers were led by three, top-10 finishers. Junior Caleb Shumaker placed second in 16:19 and senior Trent Pelzer was 4th in 16:45 to give THS two, top-5 finishers. Sophomore Cody Bohlmann placed 10th. All seven Tigers finished in the top 35 runners at the meet and finished their race in under 18:00. Jackson Edens nearly cracked the top-10, placing 11th in 17:01. Other Tipton finishers were Landan Hill 20th in 17:31, Andrew Olseen 26th in 17:37 and Ty Nichols 33rd in 17:57.
Wilton also was at the meet, the Beavers placed 12th in the team race. Zach Hein led the Beavers with a 25th place finish in 17:37.

Tigers Cruise To Home Meet Win, Three Finish In Top-6
 TIPTON — The Tipton boys cross-country team dominated the 15-team eld at their home invitational last Tuesday. Warm weather didn’t sideline the e ort of THS as they cruised to a first-place finish with 35 team points. River Valley Conference foes Northeast and Camanche were a distant second and third place with 116 and 117 points. Solon was fourth with 136 points.
 The Tigers had three runners place in the top-10. Caleb Shu- maker placed second in 16:45 and Trent Pelzer placed fourth in 17:08. Jackson Edens was sixth in 17:27. Cody Bohlmann nearly cracked the top-10 with an 11th place finish in 18:27. Other THS finishers were Lan- dan Hill 12th, Andrew Olseen 15th, and A.J. Thumma 28th. Wilton placed sixth with a team score of 160 points. Zach Hein placed in the top-10 with an eighth-place finish in 17:54. Buddy Darting nearly placed in the top-15, with a 16th place finish in 18:58.
 Durant ran at the race and placed eighth with 211 points. The Wildcats have been hanging around the
Class 1A state rankings and had one runner place in the top-25. Drake Shelangoski placed 25th in 19:39 to lead Durant. Nathan Moomey and Kayden Johnson finished in the top 40 placing 31st and 33rd.
 North Cedar placed 14th as a team with 390 points. Jacob Spahr placed 68th to lead the Knights. David Redhage was 74th in 22:57 and Samuel Choate 75th at 22:58.

The Tiger junior varsity team won the JV meet scoring 23 points. The Tigers had four of the top-5 finishers. Cascade was a distant second with 53 points. Ty Nichols placed second, Troy Butler third, Bob Ryan fourth, and Craig Shaffer fourth.

Monticello Invitational Saturday, September 14 Monticello, IA
Boy’s Team Scores: 1. Tipton 47, 2. Western Dubuque 56, 3. CPU 88, 4. Monticello 120, 5. Mid-Prairie 123, 6. Camanche 163, 7. Maquoketa Valley 198, 8. Davenport Assumption 200, 9. Jesup 228, 10. Cascade 291, 11. Anamosa 297, 12. Wilton 321, 13. Clayton Ridge 368, 14. Springville-CC 398, 15. Dyersville-Beckman 426. No Team Scores: North Linn.

Individual Team Results:
TIPTON (47): 2. Caleb Shumaker 16:19, 4. Trent Pelzer 16:45, 10. Cody Bohlmann 16:55, 11. Jackson Edens 17:01, 20. Landan Hill 17:31, 26. Andrew Olseen 17:37, 33. Ty Nichols 17:57.
WILTON (321): 25. Zach Hein 17:37, 58. Ethan Bailey 19:06, 59. Jake Walton 19:08, 85. Gavin Reid 21:38, 94. Connor Bierman 24:33.

Junior Varsity Results:
Team Scores: 1. Western Dubuque 28, 2. Tipton 36, 3. Monticello 91, 4. Cascade 141, 5. East Dubuque 153, 6. CPU 177, 7. Mid-Prairie 197, 8. Jesup 202, 9. Davenport Assumption 233, 10. Anamosa 256, 11. Dyersville- Beckman 314, 12. Clayton Ridge 361. No Team Scores: Camanche, Maquoketa Valley, North Linn.

Individual Team Results:
TIPTON (36): 2. AJ Thumma 18:15, 4. Troy Butler 18:27, 5. Bob Ryan 19:04, 10. Dalton Esbaum 19:19, 15. Brandon Valet 19:38, 18. Craig Shaefer 19:53, 23. Brody Deerberg 20:14.

Tipton Cross-Country Invitational Tuesday, September 10
Tipton, IA

Boy’s Team Scores: 1. Tipton 35, 2. Northeast 116, 3. Camanche 117, 4. Solon 136, 5. Calamus-Wheatland 152, 6. Wilton 160, 7. Anamosa 178, 8. Durant 211, 9. Wapello 213, 10. DeWitt 219, 11. Iowa City Regina 254, 12. North Linn 296, 13. Midland 296, 14. North Cedar 390, 15. Louisa-Muscatine 396. No Team Scores:

Cascade, West Liberty.

Individual Team Results:
TIPTON (35): 2. Caleb Shumaker 16:45, 4. Trent Pelzer 17:08, 6. Jackson Edens 17:27, 11. Cody Bohlmann 18:27, 12. Landan Hill 18:32, 15. Andrew Olseen 18:50, 28. A.J. Thumma 19:46.
WILTON (160): 8. Zach Hein 17:54, 16. Buddy Darting 18:58, 30. Ethan Bailey 19:52, 37. Jake Walton 20:28, 69. Gavin Reid 22:20, 81. Colby Brown 23:23. DURANT (211): 25. Drake Shelangoski 19:39, 31. Nathan Moomey 19:53, 33. Kayden Johnson 20:23, 49. Xander Fleming 20:58, 73. Braden Wagner 22:53, 85. Colyn Dean 24:00, 95. Michael Frisch 28:47.
NORTH CEDAR (390): 68. Jacob Spahr 22:14, 74. David Redhage 22:57, 75. Samuel Choate 22:58, 86. Milo Easterly 24:00, 87. Chance Cinkovich 25:14.

Junior Varsity Boys
Team Scores: 1. Tipton 23, 2. Cascade 53, 3. Solon 58, 4. DeWitt 108, 5. Northeast 137, 6. Iowa City Regina 178, 7. Wapello 194. No Team Scores: Anamosa, Calamus-Wheatland, Camanche, North Cedar, North Linn, West Liberty, Wilton.

Individual Team Results:
TIPTON (23): 2. Ty Nichols 18:51, 3. Troy Butler 19:19, 4. Bob Ryan 19:34, 5. Craig Shaffer 20:41, 20. Caleb Jedlicka 21:48, 21. Zach Fisher 21:51. Brody Deerberg 22:10, Brandon Valet 22:56, Gavin Belitz 23:01, Tiger Emrich 23:50.
NORTH CEDAR (NTS): 91. Marshall VanOort 28:30, 93. Leighton Tjaden 29:34, 96. Ryan Spahr 32:12.
WILTON (NTS): 35. Connor Bierman 23:08.