{"id":185612,"date":"2019-11-22T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185612"},"modified":"2019-11-22T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:40:40","slug":"vcsu-mens-womens-nsaa-cross-country-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185612","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Men’s Women’s NSAA Cross Country, Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOREST CITY, IOWA. (VCSU<\/a>) \u2013 Three Vikings placed in the Top 20 on Friday as the VCSU cross country teams competed at the NSAA Cross Country Championships.<\/p>\n

Teams faced a snow-covered and slick course during the race at Bear Creek Golf Course in Forest City, Iowa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freshman Grace Bachmeier<\/a> was the top Viking finisher, placing 16th overall in the women’s 5K race with a time of 21:51. Angeline Gannon<\/a> was just two spots behind as she placed 18th in the women’s race with a time of 22:03.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, Govani Garza<\/a> placed 20th overall, finishing the 8K race in a time of 28:18.<\/p>\n

Valley City State’s women placed fourth out of six teams, scoring 105 points. VCSU’s five team scorers all placed in the Top 30. Along with Bachmeier and Gannon, Kirsten Ranke<\/a> was 21st, Allyssa Weitkum<\/a> finished 23rd and Kristina Fricke<\/a> placed 27th. Dickinson State and Dakota State tied for first place in the women’s race with scores of 41. According to NAIA rules, both teams will qualify for the NAIA National Championships.<\/p>\n

Valley City State’s men placed sixth overall with a total of 143. Dakota State won the men’s race, scoring 29 points, and qualifies for the NAIA Championships.<\/p>\n

The meet was the final race of the season for the VCSU cross country teams. Complete results for the Vikings runners are below. Complete results from the meet can be found at:\u00a0http:\/\/wayzatatiming.com\/crosscountry\/2019\/NSAA\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Men’s Results
\nTeam<\/strong><\/u>
\n1. Dakota State, 29; 2. Viterbo University, 53; 3. Dickinson State, 82; 4. Bellevue University, 98; 5. Waldorf University, 106; 6. Valley City State, 143<\/p>\n

VCSU Individual Results<\/strong><\/u>
\n20. Govani Garza<\/a>, 28:18.2
\n28. Jayden Wheeling<\/a>, 29:09.8
\n32. Spencer Mattheis<\/a>, 29:35.1
\n45. Wolley Tuala<\/a>, 35:28.6
\n46. Jacen Eissinger<\/a>, 36:39.7<\/p>\n

Women’s Results
\nTeam<\/strong><\/u>
\n1. Dickinson State, 41; 2. Dakota State, 41; 3. Viterbo University, 80; Valley City State, 105; 5. Bellevue University, 112; 6. Waldorf University, 135<\/p>\n

VCSU Individual Results<\/strong><\/u>
\n16. Grace Bachmeier<\/a>, 21:51.8
\n18. Angeline Gannon<\/a>, 22:03.2
\n21. Kirsten Ranke<\/a>, 22:14.5
\n23. Allyssa Weitkum<\/a>, 22:36.8
\n27. Kristina Fricke<\/a>, 23:22.5
\n33. Avery Vasicek<\/a>, 24:39.3
\n35. Brook Tibke<\/a>, 25:22.4
\n41. Terese Kuhbacher<\/a>, 26:08
\n44. Tanya Campos<\/a>, 26:28.3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FOREST CITY, IOWA. (VCSU) \u2013 Three Vikings placed in the Top 20 on Friday as the VCSU cross country teams competed at the NSAA Cross Country Championships. Teams faced a snow-covered and slick course during the race at Bear Creek Golf Course in Forest City, Iowa. Freshman Grace Bachmeier was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185613,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185612\/revisions\/185613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}