Norms Hold True at Heartland Run
For a second time this year, Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston cross country hosted a meet. At the top, a lot of this year’s running norms held true. LARPH boys won. LFC’s girls won. Their top runner, Autumn Rakosnik won. Starting with Matt Kingsbury’s host boys, it was not even remotely close. LARPH was one spot away from a perfect score. St. Charles’ Ivan Daood (16:56.9) got revenge on Tro-Card-Cane runner Isaac Rasmussen (17:08.5), topping the R-P junior for the individual title. A week earlier, at the St. Charles Meet, Rasmussen went one (17:15.3) and Daood (17:20.4) two. But Ramussen’s teammates, Trey Hegland (17:11.7), Wyatt Kreidermacher (17:16.6), Aaron Ploetz (17:19.7), and Brennan Kunst (17:21.6) placed third thru sixth, giving LARPH a team score of 20. Taking a very distance second and third were St. Charles (101) and Pine Island (111). LFC (159) took seventh and GMLOS (228) ninth. Grayson Speltz (8th place > 17:31.3) also made the top 10 for LARPH. Hunter Rislov (20th place > 18:13.5), Matthew Sprague (28th > 18:35.5), and Will Jewison (29th > 18:55.5) all then finished top 30. LFC’s top finishers were Riley Grant (18th > 18:06.8) and Andy Brown (25th > 18:26.5). GMLOS’ top finisher was Carter Glynn (22nd > 18:13.9). Eleven teams and 106 total individuals competed. On the girls’ side, LFC (54) topped Pine Island (78), Pacelli (78), and La Crescent/Hokah (84). GMLOS (173) took fifth by tiebreak, LARPH (174) seventh, and Kingsland (200) ninth of 10 full teams. LFC phenom Autumn Rakosnik continued her amazing season by blazing a trail to the individual title, her fourth this year. The freshman had a season-best 5,000-meter time (19:26.5) and was 33.6 seconds faster than second place finisher, Lancer Hope Docan-Morgan (20:00.1). Ellen Cullen’s Burros then placed five more in the top 22. Lillyan Kiehne (8th > 21:09.6), Eliza Cullen (12th > 21:45.2), Charity Kingsley (14th > 21:55.3), and Grace Kingsley (21st > 22:20.9) rounded out the scoring runners. Non-team-scoring runner Olivia Rindels (22:25.3) took 22nd place. LARPH’s Caitlin Bauer put together her second straight excellent run, as she took sixth place (21:05.6). She was also in sixth place at St. Charles’ Meet. Teammate Vada Larson (27th > 22:46.7) also made the top 30. Kingsland’s top runner was Kylie Meyer (16th > 21:57.10). GMLOS’ top runners were Naomi Warmka (23rd > 22:25.8) and Sadie Bustad (30th > 22:51.8). One-hundred-and-one girls competed. Each 5,000-meter race was run around Lewiston’s Heartland Golf Course.
(10/1 & 10/3)
Chatfield Invite (Stewartville’s guys (29) topped RAACHE (34) with Chatfield (94) taking third, D-E fourth, and W-K fifth. Tiger Josh Langseth (17:14.5) topped RAACHE’s Luke Dirks (17:21.1) for the individual title. Chatfield’s top finisher was Maddex Lanning (18:44.8) in 14th place (of 37 runners). Stewartville’s girls (31) also took first, topping RAACHE (52) and Chatfield (74) with D-E in fourth, W-K fifth. Gopher Lexi Kivimagi (20:23) topped Stewartville’s Selah Skaran (21:05.7) for first while Charlotte Oeltjen (21:43.1) took fifth place. Thirty-six girls competed. The 5,000-meter events were held at Chosen Valley Golf Course)