Huskies qualify for state in tight district race

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Minden edges Huskies by a single point for team title

  • In an amazing display of sportsmanship, Aurora’s Tyson Kottwitz encourages Brandon Fye to finish the race as the Central City runner had started to go down just before the finish line.
    In an amazing display of sportsmanship, Aurora’s Tyson Kottwitz encourages Brandon Fye to finish the race as the Central City runner had started to go down just before the finish line.

    Every single point matters in district cross country competition and the Aurora Huskies learned that the hard way Thursday, coming up one point shy of a team title but still confidently punching their ticket to this week’s Class C state meet in Kearney for the eighth straight year.
    With 400 meters left in the C-4 District meet on Aurora’s familiar Streeter Park course, coach Tony Sigler sensed that the Huskies were in command with five runners inside the top 20. That’s not how it ended, however, as Minden snuck in with just enough points to defeat Aurora by one, 41 to 42, for the district championship.
    “I thought all of our top five were in position to move in the last 400 or 500 meters and they didn’t,” Sigler observed. “Quite literally, we had five guys that all could have gotten one more. Even though it’s an individual sport as far as you’re competing, you’re scoring as a team and they found out the hard way how one point can make the biggest difference because we would have won a tie-breaker (based on a comparison of the No. 5 runners).”

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