The men's cross country team finished fourth in the season opener at Webster City on Monday afternoon.  The Bombers would score 107 team points.  Gilbert won the meet scoring 22 team points.

Max Davidson finished is a time of 18:04.80 good enough for a 11th place finish.  Bradley Sage finished 14th in a time of 18:18.50.

Comments From Head Coach Scott Barth:

"Like I said with the girls, our top 4 ran pretty well at Webster City. There were 122 total runners on the boys side and our top 4 tucked well in the top 20 to get us off to a very competitive start. All teams that placed in front of us were ranked and through 4, we were right there. Again, we need to find that #5 to fully make us a competitive team overall. The development of Max Davidson and Bradley Sage from last season to now has been really good and they got us off to a good start. Newcomers Graden Hermann and Jameson Witt competed hard and ran good initial races for us - they both have great potential to develop a ton over the season. Alex Weeks, running on 10 days of training as a late comer to the program, ran admirably in his inaugural race. Kaleb Dee gave a good effort as well. Jude Jones ran well in the JV race to put himself in contention for varsity as well. I think we do have several candidates to fill out those 5-7 spots, but we definitely will need to train hard to make up some ground. If we can focus on what we need to focus on, we will find that #5, which is the key for the season."

The Bombers are back in action on Tuesday - September 5 when they compete at the Winterset Invitational Meet.  The meet will feature the middle school, junior varsity, and varsity and will start at 4:15 PM.

LYNX INVITATIONAL MEN'S TEAM SCORES

1. Gilbert, 22

2. North Polk, 80

3. Nevada, 81

4. Ballard, 107

5. Fort Dodge, 150

6. Humboldt, 176

7. Waverly-Shell Rock, 182

8. Webster City, 187

9. Boone, 215

LYNX INVITATIONAL MEN'S INDIVIDUAL TIMES

11 Max Davidson, 18:04.8

14 Bradley Sage, 18:18.5

17 Graden Hermann, 19:09.58

18 Jameson Witt, 19:10.66

47 Alex Weeks, 21:52.57

48 Kaleb Dee, 21:53.59

56 Braden Kubichek, 23:13.9