{"id":295798,"date":"2025-09-23T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295798"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:36:26","slug":"vcsu-cross-country-competes-at-blue-hawk-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295798","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Cross Country Competes at Blue Hawk Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vcsu-crosscountry2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vcsu-crosscountry2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vcsu-crosscountry2025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vcsu-crosscountry2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vcsu-crosscountry2025-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Medora ND (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University Cross Country teams went out to Medora, N.D. to compete in the Blue Hawk Invitational, hosted by Dickinson State University on Saturday, Sept. 21.<br>\u00a0<br>The Vikings did not record a team score in the contest but were led by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/frida-barrera\/4926\">Frida Barrera<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(23:04.7) and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/paiton-flick\/4925\">Paiton Flick<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(24:35.6) take third and fifteenth place respectively in the women&#8217;s 6K.<br>\u00a0<br>Viking men were led by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/zach-baumgartner\/3993\">Zach Baumgartner<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0a sophomore running a 28:15.9 taking 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place. Following Baumgartner was\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/mason-brehmer\/3892\">Mason Brehmer<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(28:49.5) in 32<sup>nd<\/sup>,\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/tate-minnihan\/3991\">Tate Minnihan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(30:18.9) in 47<sup>th<\/sup>, and Issac Eichhorst (31:43.6) in 52<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>VCSU Women&#8217;s Finishes:<\/strong><br>3.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/frida-barrera\/4926\">Frida Barrera<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 FR \u2013 23:04.7<br>15.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/paiton-flick\/4925\">Paiton Flick<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 FR \u2013 24:35.6<br><a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.com\/Race\/Results\/118983#resultSetId-586609;perpage:100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Full Women&#8217;s Results<\/a><br>\u00a0<br><strong>VCSU Men&#8217;s Finishes:<\/strong><br>22.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/zach-baumgartner\/3993\">Zach Baumgartner<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 SO \u2013 28:15.9<br>32.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/mason-brehmer\/3892\">Mason Brehmer<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 SR \u2013 28:49.5<br>47.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/tate-minnihan\/3991\">Tate Minnihan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 SO \u2013 30:18.9<br>52.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/isaac-eichhorst\/3893\">Isaac Eichhorst<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0\u2013 SR \u2013 31:43.6<br><a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.com\/Race\/Results\/118983#resultSetId-586611;perpage:100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Full Men&#8217;s Results<\/a><br>\u00a0<br><strong>UP NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>Viking Cross Country is headed to Jamestown to compete in the Jimmie Invitational on Friday, Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medora ND (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University Cross Country teams went out to Medora, N.D. to compete in the Blue Hawk Invitational, hosted by Dickinson State University on Saturday, Sept. 21.\u00a0The Vikings did not record a team score in the contest but were led by\u00a0Frida Barrera\u00a0(23:04.7) and\u00a0Paiton Flick\u00a0(24:35.6) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":292823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295798","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295800,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295798\/revisions\/295800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}