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TCT sports round-up for Aug. 28-Sept. 4: Ballard's Paityn Noe sets girls' cross country record

joe randleman, ames tribune
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Ballard's Paityn Noe, the defending Class 3A girls' state cross country champion, set a new girls' 5-kilometer record at the Lynx Invitational in Webster City Aug. 30. Noe completed the course in 17 minutes, 23.60 seconds.
Ballard's Paityn Noe, the defending Class 3A girls' state cross country champion, set a new girls' 5-kilometer record at the Lynx Invitational in Webster City Aug. 30. Noe completed the course in 17 minutes, 23.60 seconds.

The Ballard girls' cross country team opened the season with a record-setting individual performance and a team victory at the Lynx Invitational in Webster City Aug. 30.

The Bomber boys also had a strong showing at Webster City, placing third out of 16 teams.

The Ballard volleyball team suffered its first loss in a thrilling five-set match with Adel-Desoto-Minburn Aug. 30 at Huxley. The loss put the Bombers at 6-1.

The Collins-Maxwell cross country teams both placed fourth in the Small School Division at the Pella Invitational Saturday. The Spartan volleyball team dropped to 0-3 with a three-set loss to BCLUW Sept. 1 at Collins.

Here is what we learned from the second week of competition for the Bomber and Spartan volleyball and cross country teams:

Paityn Noe sets girls' 5k record

Ballard senior Paityn Noe set a new state record in the girls' 5-kilometer run during the Bombers' opening cross country meet at the Lynx Invitational.

Noe, the defending individual state champion in Class 3A, completed the course in 17 minutes 23.60 seconds to edge out the old record of 17:23.9 set by Ames' Camille Jackson at the 2019 state meet. She outdistanced her nearest competitor at Webster City, Algona's Moriah Knapp, by nearly 2:30.

Noe's efforts helped Ballard, ranked third as a team in 3A, take first at the Lynx Invitational with 33 points. North Polk, ranked seventh in 3A, came in second with 66 points.

Ava Vance and sophomores Brynn Wilson, Ava Richardson and Annika Larson also placed in the top 10 for the Ballard girls. Vance took fifth in 20:54.81, Wilson eighth in 21.28.11, Richardson ninth in 21:28.79 and Larson 10th in 21:29.16.

The Ballard boys scored 85 points to trail only second-ranked (3A) North Polk's perfect score of 15 and 19th-ranked Algona's 81 points at Webster City.

Austin Shoen and Seth Pencook led the Bomber boys. Shoen placed 10th with a 5k time of 17:41.56 and Pencook ran a 17:56.32 to finish 12th.

Jayden Leland ran an 18:33.86 to place 18th, Bradley Sage took 22nd in 18:55.12 and Max Davidson was 23rd in 19:04.24 to complete the scoring for the Bombers.

Spartan teams both produce three top-20 runners at Pella

Both Collins-Maxwell cross country teams placed three runners in the top 20 at the Pella Invitational.

The Spartan boys scored 81 points to trail Mid-Prairie (34), Pella Christian (49) and Lynnville-Sully (80) and defeat Baxter (122) in the Small School Division at Pella Saturday.

Ethan Haus placed third individually for the Collins-Maxwell boys with a 17:37.2 showing. Pella Christian's Kaden Van Wyngarden won in 17:05.5 and Mid-Prairie's Emmett Schwartzendruber was second in 17:25.4.

Austin Hennick ran a 19:23.7 to place 15th for the Spartan boys. Hunter Lee was 22nd in 20:10.8, Isaiah Hill 25th in 20:31.7 and Silas Kimberley 30th in 20:40.3.

The Collins-Maxwell girls finished with 91 points to finish one point behind Lynnville-Sully's third-place score of 90 and three points ahead of Eddyville-Blakesburg's fifth-place score of 94. Defending 2A state champion Mid-Prairie cruised to the girls' team title with 20 points and Pella Christian was second with 66.

Freshmen Triona Scott and Cypress Erickson placed 12th and 13th with respective times of 23:43.1 and 23:43.2 as the top runners for the Spartan girls. Chloe Wierson placed 22nd in 24:41.3, Ashlynn Davis was 26th in 25:31.3 and Erica Houge 27th in 25:36.1 as the other runners to score for Collins-Maxwell.

Defending 2A individual champion Danielle Hostetler of Mid-Prairie won the girls' race in 19:12.8

Ballard's Hailey Flanders (12) returns the ball against ADM during the second set of the Bombers' five-set loss to the Tigers at Ballard High School Tuesday, August 30, 2022, in Huxley, Iowa.
Ballard's Hailey Flanders (12) returns the ball against ADM during the second set of the Bombers' five-set loss to the Tigers at Ballard High School Tuesday, August 30, 2022, in Huxley, Iowa.

Ballard volleyball team drops heartbreaker

The Ballard volleyball team dropped a heartbreak in its Raccoon River Conference match with ADM Aug. 30.

The Bombers nearly improved to 7-0 after the two teams went to a rally game.

Ballard rebounded from a 25-23 loss in the first set to take the next two by scores of 25-22 and 25-21. But ADM came back with a 25-20 victory in the fourth set to force a rally game, where a Bomber comeback attempt fell just short in a 17-15 loss.

Both teams had similar efficiency rates on their attacks with Ballard's at 35 % and ADM's 38 %. The Tigers held a 10-8 advantage in kills per set, which offset Ballard's 32 blocks, 98-90 % advantage in serving accuracy and 11-6 edge in aces.

Alliyah Thompson, Memphis Inglett and Brenna Baumgardner each had eight kills, Brooklyn Baumgardner seven and Kasey Larson six for Ballard. Brooklyn Baumgardner had nine blocks, Brenna and Thompson seven apiece and Larson six.

Payton Askelsen led Ballard in the back row with 16 digs. Riley Askelsen handed out 24 assists and added three aces, Ally Baker dished out 14 assists and Hailey Flanders came up with three aces.

The Collins-Maxwell volleyball team struggled in its loss to BCLUW. The Spartans fell by scores of 25-4, 25-8 and 25-12.

Statistics for the match were not available at press time.

This article originally appeared on Ames Tribune: TCT sports round-up for Aug. 28-Sept. 4: Paityn Noe runs record time