Cobbers Have Promising Season Start at SJU Invitational!!
(COLLEGEVILLE)-- The 2004 Cobber men's cross country team had two provens and a whole lot of unknowns coming into the season. In the opening meet at St. John's, the provens continued to challenge for the top spots in the meet and the unknowns quickly became known. 

Seniors Nick Myran (Kenyon, Minn./Kenyon-Wanamingo HS) and Ben Nylander (Lisbon, N.D./Lisbon HS) both finished in the top fifteen of the meet and both ran the opening race injury-free. The Cobbers then received solid performances from their newcomers to help the team finish third in the team standings. Concordia finished the meet with 116 points. St. John's won the invitational with a low score of 19 points.

Myran started his senior season by finishing sixth and has now set the stage for a storied last year in maroon and gold. Last year he earned all-region and all-conference honors in cross country and narrowly missed earning All-American honors at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Meet. His final time over the 8,000 meter course was 27:11, less than 50 seconds behind the overall winner. 

Nylander finished 16th in a time of 28:02. He will be benefited this season by a year of training. Last year he was hampered by an injury all season long.

The next wave of Cobber runners featured sophomore Dan Bye (Mankato, Minn./Mankato Loyola HS) and freshmen Scott Dinsen (Hastings, Minn./Hastings) and Matt Putratz (Mazeppa, Minn./Zumbrota-Mazeppa). Bye, solidly locked in as the team's number three runner, ran 30:21, while Dinsen finished in 31:06 and Putratz completed the course in 31:25.

The Cobbers will travel to Rapid City, S.D. to participate in the South Dakota Tech Invite on Saturday, September 11 at 11:00am at Robbinsdale Park.
 

SJU Invitational Action Pictures
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Saint John’s University Cross Country Invitational 
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Collegeville, Minn.

Men’s Results – 8,000 Meters

Team Scores
MSU-Mankato        1-2-4-5-7-9-10       19
Saint John’s       3-8-13-15-16-19-21   55
Concordia-Moorhead 6-14-26-34-36-38-40  116
Concordia-St. Paul 12-17-22-24-43-50    118
Martin Luther      11-20-23-33-37-41-45 124
MSU-Moorhead       18-27-28-29-30-31-39 132
North Central      25-35-44-46-49-51-53 199
Northwestern       32-42-47-48-52       221
Crown              Incomplete

Individual Scores
1 Robert Berger, Mankato          26:24
2 Jason Rengo, Mankato            26:34
3 Tim Smit, Saint John’s          26:38
4 Dan Ristau, Mankato             26:50
5 Scott Fiksdal, Mankato          26:57
6 Nick Myran, Con-Moorhead        27:11
7 Tom Myers, Open                 27:26
8 Aaron Bumgarner, Open           27:27
9 Erik Teig, Mankato              27:30
10 Mitch Van Bruggen, Saint John’s 27:37
t11 Quinn Dauer, Mankato          27:46
t11 Pat Lehmann, Mankato          27:46
13 Tom Moldenhauer, Martin Luther 27:50
14 Marcus Breitbarth, St. Paul    27:51
15 Kelly Fermoyle, Saint John’s   27:54
16 Ben Nylander, Con-Moorhead     28:02
17 Mark Rapacz, Open              28:03
18 Dan Duhs, Open                 28:11
19 Paul Jeske, Saint John’s       28:22
20 Chris Erichsen, Saint John’s   28:27
21 Aron Stumvoll, Con-St. Paul    28:37
22 Joe Lynch, MSU-Moorhead        28:44
23 Scott Lindell, Open            28:46
24 Eric Nelsen, Saint John’s      28:48
25 Marshall Milbraith, Martin Luther 28:57
26 Jeff Lundgren, Saint John’s    28:58
27 Darren Larsen, Saint John’s    28:59
28 Yonas Seyum, Mankato           29:08
29 Kyle Warren, Con-St. Paul      29:12
30 Dan Dobbe, Saint John’s        29:25
31 Riley Flanders, Saint John’s   29:31
32 Cameron Green, Saint John’s    29:34
33 Michael Marschel, Open         29:40
34 Lew Grobe, Saint John’s        29:45
35 Matt Kurke, Saint John’s       29:51
36 Derek Johnson, Saint John’s    29:55
37 Adam Wolf, Saint John’s        30:03
38 Brian Peterson, Open           30:06
39 Brady King, Saint John’s       30:10
40 Jon Martens, Martin Luther     30:11
t41 Paul James, Con-St. Paul      30:14
t41 Ben Tillus, North Central     30:14
43 Dan Bye, Con-Moorhead          30:21
44 Nick Jannsen, MSU-Moorhead     30:26
45 Dane Moreland, MSU-Moorhead    30:28
46 Steve Solum, MSU-Moorhead      30:30
47 Brian Anderson, Open           30:33
48 Erik Crawford, Open            30:43
49 David Messer, Saint John’s     30:46
50 Leighton Reuss, MSU-Moorhead   30:48
51 Brandon Beaudry, MSU-Moorhead  30:49
52 Ryan Gifford, Northwestern     30:56
53 Jeff Doll, Saint John’s        30:57
54 Max Mogren, Open               30:59
t55 Paul Kanzenbach, Martin Luther 31:06
t55 Scott Dinsen, Con-Moorhead    31:06
57 Jeremy Sutton, Saint John’s    31:13 
58 John Gieske, North Central     31:16
t59 Matt Putratz, Con-Moorhead    31:25
t59 Jeremiah Schmieg, Martin Luther 31:25
61 Andy Burton, Crown             31:38
62 Nathan Lodermeier, Con-Moorhead 31:39
63 Timothy Nescheim, MSU-Moorhead 31:41
64 Rocky Jantzen, Con-Moorhead    31:49
t65 Jon Labbs, Martin Luther      31:51
t65 Chad Velde, Northwestern      31:51 
67 Eddy Malnor, Saint John’s      31:55
68 Hassan Guyo, Con-St. Paul      32:04
69 Charlie Sawyer, Saint John’s   32:12
70 Ben Eilers, Saint John’s       32:13
71 John Kohlhaas, Saint John’s    32:16
72 Tim Austin, North Central      32:21
73 Steve Brummer, Saint John’s    32:22
74 Travis Flanders, Saint John’s  32:30
75 Fred Stock, Saint John’s       32:40
76 Colin Rieke, Martin Luther     32:43
t77 Dustin Weege, Con-Moorhead    33:11
t77 Adam Patil, Saint John’s      33:11
79 Blake Hanson, Saint John’s     33:16
80 Dustin Blum, Con-Moorhead      33:21
81 Aaron Korf, Con-Moorhead       33:30
82 Joe Woldt, Martin Luther       33:33
83 Jason Stoffel, Saint John’s    33:44
84 Jim Tilus, North Central       33:52
85 Ethan Bielke-McCallum, St. John’s 35:11
t86 Eli Snyder, Northwestern      35:17
t86 Ryan Strange, Northwestern    35:17
88 Sam Gavin, Saint John’s        35:26
89 Nate Ehlers, Martin Luther     35:55
90 Tim Matthiess, Martin Luther   36:38
91 Joel Putz, Martin Luther       37:06
92 Chris DePoian, North Central   37:10
93 Ben Hoff, Martin Luther        37:13
94 Andrew Jones, Con-St. Paul     37:48
95 Curtis Larson, Crown           38:14
96 Nick Haasch, Martin Luther     38:49
97 Charlie Griffith, North Central 39:50
98 Jon Matthews, Northwestern     42:50
99 John Crabtree, North Central   51:49