Roundup: Bureau Valley’s Elijah House places ninth in Patriot Invite

Bureau Valley’s Elijah House led the Storm to a 17th-place team finish in the 60-team varsity race in Saturday’s Patriot Invitational at Detweiller Park in Peoria.

House notched a personal record 16:07.7 on the 3.0-mile course, earning individual honors with a ninth-place finish

Ben Roth (58th, 17:04.9), Adrian Gallardo (101st, 17:48.), Maddox Moore (155th, 18:52.7), and Owen Larkin (193rd, 19:42.6) also scored for BV, all recording personal record times. Payton Walowski (200th, 19:55.9)and Landon Hulsing (213th, 20:13.4, PR) ran in the 6th and 7th positions.

Princeton freshman Augustus Swanson finished 90th with a time of 17:37, Robert Nelson was 247th (21:33) and Kamden Wahlgren was 260th (22:39).

In the girls race, Princeton’s Lexi Bohms finished 35th (19:53), Kianna Brokaw was 123rd (22:31), Avery Waca was 172nd (24:30), Claire Grey was 210th (26:26) and Ella Grey was 116th (27:31).

Rhiley Pinter was the lead runner for the JV Storm in this race, earning individual honors with a 32nd place finish and a 19:33.1 personal record. Andrew Roth (51st, 20:53.8) and Nathan Siri (73rd, 22:15) als oPR’ed in the JV race.

VOLLEYBALL

St. Bede fourth at Plano: The St. Bede Bruins finished fourth of 12 teams in Saturday’s Plano Invitational, falling to Johnsburg in the third place match 25-11, 25-16. In other matches, St. Bede defeated cHinkley Big Rock (26-24, 25-17) and Earlville (25-16, 25-14) and lost to Rosary (25-14, 15-12) and Rosary (25-10, 27-25).

All-tournament selection had Anna Lopez had eight kills, four blocks and three digs. Other leaders for St. Bede were Ella Hermes (8 aces, 5 kills, 46 digs), Emily Robbins (9 kills, 53 digs), Ella Mudge (24 digs), Amanda Wojcik (48 assists, 18 digs), Ari Heersink (3 aces, 21 digs), Ali Bosnich (3 aces, 19 kills, 6 blocks) and Ashlyn Ehm (9 kills, 3 blocks)