Photos by Paul Trende
The Week of Monday, October 3 had area cross country teams hosting meets. Chatfield held its annual run at Chosen Valley Golf Course on Tuesday while LARPH hosted at Lewiston’s Heartland GC Thursday.
Kivimagi/Strande Go 1-2 at Gopher Home Meet
Chatfield’s home cross country meet featured two of the five ‘Journal 11’ teams, the Gophers and Kingsland. Twelve total squads ran at the 5,000-meter races. On the girls side, the home Gophers battled PEM for first place. Chatfield (50) fell a couple points short to the Bulldogs (48). The Gophers had runners 1, 2, 9, 17, and 21. PEM’s top 10 exploits, runners 4, 5, 6, 7, and then 26, led them to the tight win. Byron (79) took third while RAACHE, Stewartville, Goodhue, W-K, Schaeffer, BP, and Kingsland finished in that order. Gopher 8th grader Lexi Kivimagi (20:59.8) and senior Aletta Strande (21:07.28) paced the field, taking first and second ahead of RAACHE’s Sarah Baum (21:18.50). It was the second time the duo went 1-2, but the first time at a race with double-digit teams. Teammate Ella Bakken (9th > 22:08.18) finished top 10. Charlotte Oeltjen (17th > 22:45.73) and Savannah Thompson (21st > 22:56.74) finished top 25. Seventy-one gal runners competed. The Gopher girls have three second place finishes this year, twice to PEM and once to Cotter. On the guys side, Stewartville (37) took first over RAACHE (68) and W-K (112). Chatfield (125) took fourth followed by BP, Schaeffer, D-E, Cannon Falls, PEM, Byron, and Goodhue. Kingsland was incomplete. W-K’s Cole Arens (17:39.10) bested Stewie’s Isaiah Fitzgerald (17:53.36) for first. Knight Cole Kruegel (17:57.33) took third. Chatfield’s top finisher was Gabe Erding (7th > 18:23.79). Treyton Lanning (17th > 19:30.21) of Chatfield, Knights Andrew Imm (18th > 19:30.83) and Josh Meskill (22nd > 19:46.77), finished top 25. Kingsland’s Garrison Hubka did not compete. Seventy-seven guys competed.
LARPH Boys, Hendrickson Win Ole Olmstead Meet
LARPH hosted its second run of the year, the “Ole Olmstead” meet at Lewiston’s Heartland Golf Course. The hosts, LFC, and GMLOS competed amongst nine total teams. Matt Kingsbury’s LARPH guys (33) posted their fourth win of the year, easily topping Pine Island (71) and GMLOS (92). LFC (147) took sixth (of eight complete). PI’s Braxton Osterhaus (17:14) was meet champion over “always groomsman” Ryan Prinsen (17:24.3) of the hosts, who tallied his fourth second place of the year. Prinsen’s been LARPH’s top runner at every event. All five of LARPH’s scoring runners finished top 10. Tyler Betthauser (5th > 17:56.6), Brennan Kunst (7th > 18:11.5), Matthew Sprague (9th > 18:29.4), and Aaron Ploetz (10th > 18:29.9) joined Prinsen. It was their first bigger race with five in the top 10. Sam Adamczyk (16th > 19:04.2) gave LARPH six in the top 20. LFC’s Isaac Snyder (17:35.8) took third while GMLOS Carter Glynn (18:09.3) and Tate Georgen (12th > 18:48.7) took sixth and 12th (of “Journal 11” runners). Finishing in the top 25 were LARPH’s Isaac Rasmussen (22nd > 19:20.5) and Dave Wallace (24th > 19:27), and GMLOS’ Erik Shaw (23rd > 19:25.4) and Cohen Wiste (25th > 19:36.3). Ninety-five guys competed, as St. Charles, LC/H, D-E, and Hayfield joined the above four squads. On the girls side, GMLOS took 8th (of nine), but senior McKenna Hendrickson chalked up her second straight, and third overall, first place finish. Hendrickson (20:37.8) bested nearest foes, PI’s Alivia Levi (21:15.1) and LFC’s Lillyan Kiehne (21:17.7). It was Hendrickson best time while finishing first. LARPH’s Lauren Honken posted her highest this year in taking fourth (21:29.3). Her teammates, Ellie Ekern (11th > 22:18), Vada Larson (12th > 22:24.2), and Serenity Ernst (20th > 23:05.1), also finished top 20, as did LFC’s Addie Miner (17th > 22:43). Sixty-nine girls competed. PI (52) beat Austin-Pacelli (95) and LARPH (96) for first. LARPH took third by sixth-runner tie-breaker. LFC took seventh. Each race was 5,000-meters.
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