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STEVENS POINT – Stevens Point swept the team titles for the second-straight year and D.C. Everest senior Sara Mlodik won the girls race for the fourth season in a row at the 2023 Wisconsin Valley Conference Cross Country Meet on Saturday at Standing Rock Park.
The Stevens Point boys dominated again, sweeping the top seven spots in the 5-kilometer race to finish with a perfect score of 15. Marshfield was fifth with 155.
Aloysius Franzen, last year’s runner-up, won the boys race in 15:06.5 for Stevens Point, 38 seconds ahead of teammate Ethan Olds. Last year’s conference champion Bode Erickson took fourth.
Stevens Point has won every boys conference meet title since 1977 except for two – in 1987 when it finished second, and in 2020 when it did not compete in fall sports until the alternate spring season during that school year.
Owen Hoerneman took 10th in 17:27 to lead the Marshfield boys.
The girls title for Stevens Point is its ninth since 2012 and second in a row. Marshfield took third with a pair of top-10 finishes as Natalie Scharenbroch was fifth in 19:46.4 and Adeline Lonsdale was 10th in 21:01.2.
Mlodik won in 18:33.7, 13 seconds better than she finished when winning last year’s title.
Marshfield will compete at a WIAA Division 1 sectional next Saturday, Oct. 21, at Menomonie High School.
2023 Wisconsin Valley Conference Cross Country Meet
Oct. 14, at Standing Rock Park, Stevens Point
Girls
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 32; 2. Wausau West 51; 3. Marshfield 89; 4. Wausau East 122; 5. D.C. Everest 126; 6. Wisconsin Rapids 145; 7. Merrill incomplete.
Top 10 and Marshfield finishers: 1. Sara Mlodik (DC) 18:33.7; 2. Tessa Bruckhart (SP) 19:03.7; 3. Elexa Marciniak (WW) 19:38.3; 4. Sarah Hopp (SP) 19:44.8; 5. Natalie Scharenbroch (MAR) 19:46.4; 6. Jalyssa Groskreutz (SP) 19:51.5; 7. Celia Sinz (WW) 20:11.5; 8. Leah Ottosen (WW) 20:18.5; 9. Lorena Hill (ST) 29:24.1; 10. Adeline Lonsdale (MAR) 21:01.2; 23. Ava Raab (MAR) 22:11.7; 25. Miriam McKee (MAR) 22:26.6; 26. Carolina Sullenger (MAR) 22:30.6; 27. Natalie Schmitt (MAR) 22:31.7; 32. Kassidy Christopher (MAR) 23:28.5; 38. Keara Ronning (MAR) 24:18.0.
Boys
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 15; 2. D.C. Everest 79; 3. Wausau West 87; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 100; 5. Marshfield 155; 6. Wausau East 165; 7. Merrill 182.
Top 10 and Marshfield finishers: 1. Aloysius Franzen (SP) 15:06.5; 2. Ethan Olds (SP) 15:44.0; 3. Cooper Erickson (SP) 16:02.7; 4. Bode Erickson (SP) 16:08.0; 5. Andrew Dziak (SP) 16:19.3; 6. Graham Ballard (ST) 16:29.9; 7. Cooper Gunderson (ST) 16:35.1; 8. Josh Neilitz (WW) 16:40.2; 9. Matt Frank (SP) 16:49.7; 10. Owen Hoerneman (MAR) 17:27.1; 32. Lincoln Berger (MAR) 19:43.1; 35. Maxx Oertel (MAR) 19:54.1; 37. Alexander Parker (MAR) 20:01.6; 41. Ehmrey Schmoll (MAR) 20:27.0; 45. Willis Weinzatl (MAR) 20:36.1; 48. Paul Ugoretz (MAR) 21:41.0.
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