RESULTS
Notables
-Top five CSS runners all post personal-best times
-Boedigheimer leads Saints in all seven races this season
-Boedigheimer was top UMAC finisher in the field
WAVERLY, Iowa (
csssaints.com) – Sophomore
Isaac Boedigheimer (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) led the St. Scholastica men's cross country team on Saturday at the NCAA Division III Central Region Championships finishing 29
th overall and earning All-Region accolades for the second straight year.
Results
Team Scores: 1. Wartburg-52, 2. Carleton-88, 3. St. Olaf-138, 4. St. Thomas-141, 5. Loras-154, 20. CSS-521
Individual Winner: Tris Dodge (Carleton) – 24:51
Top Performances
Boedigheimer, who finished 22
nd at this event last year and just missed qualifying for Nationals, would finish 29
th on Saturday with a personal-best time of 25:37. Boedigheimer would be the only Saint to finish in the top 100.
Sophomore
Ryan Steger (Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) came across next for the Saints in a personal-best time of 27:05 and 105
th overall. Freshman
Nick Matelich (Bozeman, Mont./Bozeman HS (Montana State)) was 116
th overall with a personal-best time of 27:15.
Fellow freshman
Donny Pooler (Solon Springs, Wis./Northwestern HS) was the fourth Saint across the finish line in a personal-best time of 27:29, good enough for 130
th overall. The final Saint to score was another freshman
Bjorn Larson (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS (Colorado State)) in 141
st place with a personal-best time of 27:48.
Freshman
Max Botz (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Apollo HS) was 150
th overall with a time of 28:04 and the final CSS runners competing was freshman
Nick Meyer (Wabasha, Minn./Wabasha-Kellogg HS) in 198
th overall with a time of 31:41.
End of Season
The season ends for the youthful squad. The Saints don't have any seniors and expect
Easton Foss (Pine City, Minn./Pine City HS) back for 2019.
For future news on the St. Scholastica men's cross country program; keep checking csssaints.com.
