Cross Country: Variables Stay Constant at LARPH’s Lewiston Run
At the top of things, cross country variables stayed constant as LARPH hosted its second meet of the year, this time at Lewiston’s Heartland Golf Course. Matt Kingsbury’s guys and LFC gal runner Autumn Rakosnik continued to be head and shoulders above the field. With another low team score, LARPH’s guys (21) won their fifth meet of the year, topping nearest foes Pine Island (80), Pacelli (96), and St. Charles (96) by a wide margin. LFC (114) took fifth and GMLOS ninth of nine full teams. R-P senior Isaac Rasmussen (16:49.61) won his third race of the year, topping nearest foes, his teammates Brennan Kunst (16:57.38) and Grayson Speltz (17:06.15). Rasmussen ran his second sub-17-minute, 5,000-meters, Kunst his first in a season-best-time. LARPH went 1-2-3-6-9. Aaron Ploetz (17:24.94) took sixth and Will Jewison (17:48.20) ninth to complete the team’s scoring runners. Hunter Rislov (18:41.15) took 16th to also make the top 20. And LARPH’s Trey Hegland did not run. The Card-Tro-Canes now have six runners who each have at least three top 10 finishers this year. Rasmussen, Speltz and Kunst each have five top 10 finishes. LFC was led by Riley Grant (18:23.84) in 15th place while Andy Brown (19:08.84) and Cooper Pickett (19:25.18) took 21st and 22nd places. Sixty-three runners completed the varsity race. On the girls side, it was again the Autumn Rakosnik show. The LFC sophomore won her fourth race of the year (19:45.08) by a wide margin over second place Hope Docan-Morgan (20:24.57) of La Crescent/Hokah and Bella Robinson (21:19;.82) of Dover-Eyota. The Burros (82) as a team took second behind Pine Island (50) with PEM (89) just in third place. GMLOS (117) took a narrow fifth behind D-E (116) while Kingsland took eighth and LARPH took ninth (of nine teams). LFC put four in the top 25 with Charity Kingsley (22:41.61) taking 11th, Grace Kingsley (23:10.31) 19th, and Eliza Cullen (23:45.66) 25th places. GMLOS had three in the top 25; Naomi Warmka (22:53.48) in 13th place, Audrey Main (23:08.93) in 18th, and Sadie Bustad (23:14.14) in 20th place. Kingsland’s Reeyin Lanning (22:49.49) took 12th place to lead her team. Vada Larson (23:22.84) took 21st to lead LARPH. LFC senior Lillyan Kiehne did not run, nor did top LARPH runner Caitlin Bauer.
Cross Country (9/30)
Chatfield Meet (Stewartville’s boys (35) beat RAACHE (53), W-K, (82), Chatfield (93), D-E (103), and Blooming Prairie (152). Tiger Nolan Schatz (17:31.3) downed RAACHE’s Luke Dirks (17:37.6) for the individual title. Chatfield’s top finishers were Ben Peeters (18:18.7) and Ivar Stavlund (19:00.1) in 10th and 17th places at the 5,000-meter, 49-competitor event. Stewartville’s girls (48) topped BP (61), RAACHE (63), D-E (87), Chatfield (112), and W-K (134). BP’s Gloria Hernandez (20:39.7) topped RAACHE’s Brita Sviggum (21:03.1) for the individual title. Chatfield’s top finishers were Lexi Kivimagi (22:04.4) and Adeline Schild (23:01.3) in 7th and 15th place at the 5,000-meter, 41-competitor event)
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