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Burro Girls Claim First at D-E Meet
Top runner Autumn Rakosnik ran away with the individual crown and Ellen Cullen’s LFC girls team put their five scoring runners all in the top 20 to claim the Dover-Eyota cross country meet team title. Rakosnik ran with section foes and 2023 state qualifiers Olivia Yotter of Lake City and Lexi Kivimagi of Chatfield for a while before pulling away. Rakosnik crossed the line in 20:20 while Yotter took second (20:59) and Kivimagi third (21:11). GMLOS’ Naomi Warmka finished fourth (22:37), her highest placing ever. But LFC got Lillyan Kiehne (7th place > 23:02), Charity Kingsley (8th > 23:03) and Grace Kingsley (10th > 23:10) in the top 10 while Eliza Cullen (20th > 24:34) rounded out LFC’s scoring runners. Journal-covered runners Charlotte Oeltjen (9th > 23:07) of Chatfield and Kylie Meyer (12th > 23:17) of Kingsland also made the top 15. LFC (45) topped nearest foe Rochester Area Home School (71) and Lake City (72). Dover-Eyota (105), Chatfield (108), GMLOS (120), and Kingsland (144) also competed at the 65-girl, 5,000-meter event. On the guys’ side, RACE (39) topped Lake City (71) with Chatfield (101) taking third. PEM (108), LFC (119), D-E (124), and GMLOS (135) followed. RACE’s Luke Dirks (17:28) took first over Lake City’s Eric Anderson (17:42) with PEM’s Nolan Pfeilsticker (17:56) taking third. GMLOS had the top ‘Journal-covered’ finisher as Carter Glynn (18:00) took fourth. He was the only athlete from GMLOS, Chatfield, or LFC in the top 10. The Burros top runner was Riley Grant (12th > 19:09). Chatfield had two in the top 20, Maddex Lanning (15th > 19:19) and Ben Peeters (18th > 19:29), and two more, Alden Pearson (22nd > 19:59) and Aiden Johnsrud (25th > 20:08), in the top 25. GMLOS’ Teague Alden (19:41) took 20th while LFC’s Cooper Pickett (19:45) took 21st. Seventy-two boys ran at the 5,000-meter event held around Dover-Eyota’s school grounds.
Cross Country (9/14)
Luther College All-American Meet (LARPHs boys and LFC’s teams competed against all-sized schools from Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Iowa City’s boys (85) topped Bloomington-Jefferson (118) for that title with LARPH (203) taking a respectable sixth. LFC took 24th of 30 total teams. Onalaska’s Manny Putz (15:10.3) topped Iowa City-Liberty’s Keegan Decker (15:46.2) for the individual title. Putz has won the last three ‘All-American’ titles. Brennan Kunst (16:42) took 20th, Trey Hegland 31st (17:02.1), Wyatt Kreidermacher 42nd (17:12), Isaac Rasmussen 51st (17:18.8), and Grayson Speltz 59th (17:30.8) to give LARPH five in the top 60 of 243 total runners. On the girls’ side, Pleasant Valley (36) topped Dubuque-Senior (91) for the team title. LFC (411) took 14th of 28 total teams. Minnetonka’s Avery Marasco-Johnson (18:12.3) won the individual title over Rochester-JM’s Abigail Tri (18:27.5). LFC’s Autumn Rakosnik took a very respectable 15th place (19:13.3) amidst 242 runners)
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