June 30, 2025

Baxter’s Tuhn runs to win at West Marshall

By Troy Hyde

Baxter senior Elie Tuhn won another individual race at the West Marshall Invitational on Tuesday. Tuhn won the girls' 5K with a time of 20:35. (Troy Hyde/Newton News file photo)

STATE CENTER — Baxter senior Elie Tuhn won the West Marshall Cross Country Invitational on Tuesday.

Baxter’s girls’ team was short-handed but the Class 1A No. 8 Tuhn ran to an easy win, finishing in 20 minutes, 35 seconds.

Freshman Matt Richardson was eighth in the boys’ 5K race to lead the Bolts in a meet that was originally scheduled for Monday but was postponed due to weather.

Baxter’s boys finished seventh in the seven-team field. The Bolts scored 174 points. Collins-Maxwell won the meet with 57 points, while South Hamilton (66), Grand View Christian (76), Ankeny Christian Academy (90), West Marshall (101) and Colo-NESCO (119) completed the field.

Richardson’s time was clocked at 19:13. Curtis Gliem was 35th in 23:09. The rest of the Bolts’ lineup included Logan Rainsbarger (24:00) in 45th, Keenan Varner (25:40) in 53rd, Hudson Bethards (25:43) in 54th and Thomas Yoakum (31:29) in 61st.

The Baxter boys were without No. 2 runner Logan Jones and the girls did not have Lilie Vansice or Morgan Hansen.

Zoey Gliem finished second on the team in 10th. She was clocked in 23:03. Regan Russell (23:51) finished 17th and Emie Tuhn (23:58) was 18th.