Cross Country: LARPH Boys, LFC’s Rakosnik Show Well at Massive Luther Run
LARPH’s boys are ranked #1 in state in Class A. LFC’s girls are ranked #6. Each squad plus Chatfield’s teams took on the massive Luther All-American Invite featuring top runners from all sized Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin schools. LARPH’s boys (147) took fifth (of 25 full teams) only behind #3 Iowa City-City High (67), #4 Cedar Rapids-Prairie (80), #4 in AAA Minneapolis-Washburn (117) and #17 Iowa City-Liberty (126). The three Iowa schools are all Class 4A. It was LARPH’s best finish at the event, topping last year’s 6th place showing. Chatfield also competed, taking 17th while LFC was incomplete. LARPH put four in the top 30 and seven guys in the top 100 (of 232 finishing runners). Isaac Rasmussen (16:29) took an impressive 11th place, the highest Journal-covered boy showing since Kingsland’s Garrison Hubka took 14th place in 2022. He moved up from 51st place last year (17:18.8). Grayson Speltz (17:01.2) and Brennan Kunst (17:01.7) took 26th and 27th places. Speltz improved from 59th place last year (17:30.8) while Kunst was LARPH’s highest finisher last year in 20th place (16:42). Trey Hegland (17:06.1) took 31st and Will Jewison took 64th (17:53.4) to round out team Tro-Card-Cane’s scoring runners. Chatfield’s top finisher was Ben Peeters (17:51.8) in 60th place. Non-scoring runner Aaron Ploetz of LARPH took 66th (17:56.9) while Hunter Rislov (18:12.6) took 84th place. Iowa City-Liberty’s #2-ranked Keegan Decker (15:09.8) breezed to individual title over Linn-Marr/Marion’s #9 Ethan Cheney (15:51.7). On the girls side, LFC took 21st place, LARPH 26th, and Chatfield was incomplete (of 30 complete teams). But Burro Autumn Rakosnik (19:03.4) took 9th place, surpassing her excellent 15th place finish (19:13.3) last year. LARPH’s Caitlin Bauer (20:32.3) also had a good showing, taking 40th place (of 230 finishing runners). Chatfield’s Lexi Kivimagi (21:40.6), in her first race of the year, took 76th place. Pekin’s 1A #1-ranked Chloe Gosser (18:17.7) was the girls individual champion ahead of Pleasant Valley’s 4A #2 Maddie Millage (18:28.7). Pleasant Valley (56), #1 in 4A, won the girls team title over #4 Iowa City-City High (88) and #7 Dubuque-Senior (145). The meet featured a ton of ranked runners and teams.
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Rochester-Mayo Invite (Rosemount’s boys (42) topped Eastview (75) for the boys team title. GMLOS took 18th (of 18). Rosemount’s Channing Goodwin (16:21.2) and Abram Anderson (16:28.2) went 1-2. Winona (80) topped Stillwater Area (95) for the girls team title. GMLOS took 15th (of 16). Rochester-John Marshall’s Abigail Tri (19:17.7) topped Stillwater’s Greta Shockey (19:42.7) for the individual crown. Neither GMLOS team had anyone in the top 50 (of over 100 runners))
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