In their final regular season meets, the Meskwaki Settlement School’s cross country team ran in Alleman and Jewell last week.

To begin the week, the Warriors traveled to North Polk high school in Alleman on Monday, Oct. 5, to run at the North Polk Invite. The boys varsity team finished in 7th place with 197 points. They were led by freshman Jesse Bear, who earned 13th place with a time of 18:20. Finishing behind him were teammates: junior Jarvis Bear (40th, 19:47); junior Jaymison Hill (44th, 20:30); junior Roman Tricky (54th, 23:15); and junior Hepan Azure-Mitchell (60th, 25:35).

Two varsity girls ran for the Warriors at Alleman. Finishing in the top-50 were: sophomore Bree Scabbyrobe (22nd, 22:28) and senior Dorothy Bear (48th, 24:22).

Later in the week, on Thursday, Oct. 8, MSS traveled to Jewell to compete at the Jim Klein Invite at the Jewell Golf and Country Club. The Warriors ran three varsity runners on the day, with Jesse Bear leading the way again for the boys’ squad (13th, 17:49). Jarvis Bear finished in 43rd with a time of 19:22. Scabbyrobe was the lone varsity runner for the girls, running a time of 21:07 to finish in 21st place.

The meets represented the Warriors’ final tune-ups before postseason competition began. On Wednesday, Oct. 13, MSS traveled to Waverly for the annual Iowa Star conference meet. Results of the meet were not known by press time this week. Following that, the Warriors will compete at their Class 1A state-qualifying meet on Thursday, Oct. 22 (location to be announced).