By 605 Sports Staff

VOLGA — The Clark/Willow Lake girls and Flandreau boys captured team titles at the Sioux Valley Invitational cross-country meet on Tuesday at Meadow Creek Golf Course.

Clark/Willow Lake finished with 31 points, two points ahead of Flandreau (33). Sioux Valley finished third with 42 points, while Great Plains Lutheran (56) and Madison (68) rounded out the top-five.

The Flandreau boys finished with a score of 19 points, while Madison (41) and Deubrook Area (53) finished second and third, respectively. Sioux Valley (66) and Great Plains Lutheran (90) rounded out the top-five.

Individually, Great Plains Lutheran’s Halle Bauer won the 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:45.10. Flandreau’s Faith Wiese (19:07.66) and Deuel’s Jaycee Hourigan (19:29.38) placed second and third, while Clark/Willow Lake’s Kamryn Nesheim (19:40.91) and Sioux Valley’s Liberty Trygstad (20:00.49) finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

On the boys side, Deuel’s Ricky Berndt captured the individual award with a time of 16:40.69. Madison’s Dylan Gerdes placed second with a time of 17:34.22, while Flandreau’s Lurick Dailey finished third (17:40.54). Deubrook Area’s Landen Johnson (17:55.43) and Flandreau’s Matthew Gassman (18:07.46) finished fourth and fifth, respectively.