Welcoming Fatima and St. Francis Borgia to Owensville High School (OHS) for a home tri-meet on their cross country course, Matt Candrl’s OHS harriers looked to defend their home course.

Running a shortened two-mile course for their season opener, senior Zach Holtmeyer won the varsity boys race in a time of 10:23.20.

Joining Holtmeyer in the top 10 were Cristopher Reyes (3rd, 11:24.59), Drake Dietrich (4th, 11:26.48), Grayson Lairmore (5th, 11:26.87) and Dylan Dietrich (10th, 11:57.21).

Those five runners helped the Dutchmen top the team standings with 23 points ahead of Fatima (39) and Borgia (67).

Also running for the Dutchmen were Roman Crowe (12th, 12:04.41), Max Altemeyer (13th, 12:06.97), Brock Rutledge (21st, 13:15.95), Brahm Winter (28th, 14:52.25), Ethan Blankenship (29th, 15:25.03), Christian Steele (30th, 15:35.94), Seth Mitcham (35th, 15:55.69) and Logan Hackstedt (40th, 17:47.97).

Ella Davidson (7th, 15:48.82) and Leah Hayes (8th, 15:56.50) led a quartet of Dutchgirls in the girls race.

Also running for OHS were Meredith Reed (21st, 18:51.65) and Avery Poggas (22nd, 19:35.09).

OHS will run this weekend on Saturday, Sept. 5 in the New Haven Invitational at New Haven City Park in JV and Varsity racing action.

Middle School races will begin the slate of races at 8 a.m., along Highway 100 in Franklin County.