Photo by Paul Trende
After running a pair high-caliber cross country meets, LARPH’s boys got back a smaller, more local event. They got back to winning. Team Card-Tro-Cane was just one runner away from a perfect score at the St. Charles Meet. Only Stewartville’s Nolan Schatz (17:23.5), in third place, kept LARPH away from perfection. They had five of the other top six runners. Senior Isaac Rasmussen (17:04) came across the line first to win his second run of the year. Grayson Speltz was a few seconds behind (17:14.1) in second place. Taking fourth, fifth, and sixth were Brennan Kunst (17:28.7), Aaron Ploetz (17:31.4), and Trey Hegland (17:37.5). Non-scoring team runners Hunter Rislov (17:53.4) and Will Jewison (18:13.4) took 8th and 11th place respectively. Team LARPH (18) won the event over nearest foes Stewartville (56), Dover-Eyota (118), and Chatfield (121). LFC and GMLOS also competed, taking sixth and ninth (of nine teams). The Gophers’ top runner was Ben Peeters (18:24.8) in 15th place. LFC’s top runner was Riley Grant (18:42.8) in 19th place. GMLOS did not have anyone in the top 40 of 70 total finishers. On the girls side, LFCs Autumn Rakosnik (19:54.7) won her third run of the year, topping nearest foes La Crescent/Hokah’s Hope Docan-Morgan (20:05.3) and Lake City’s Olivia Yotter (20:16.7). Yotter owned a win over Rakosnik at the shorter La Crescent run earlier this year. Taking fourth was LARPH standout Caitlin Bauer (20:58.7). Chatfield’s Lexi Kivimagi (21:39.8) took seventh. LFC got two more in the top 20, as Charity Kingsley (22:56.3) and Lillyan Kiehne (23:00.7) took 14th and 15th places. GMLOS was led by Naomi Warmka (23:13.5) in 17th place. Lake City (71) won the team event over Stewartville (78) and D-E (85) with LFC in fourth place (104). Chatfield took sixth, GMLOS seventh, and LARPH ninth (of 10 complete teams, 67 runners).
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