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Coming off a second-place team finish to Class AA Stewartville at the St. Charles Meet, Ellen Cullen’s Lanesboro/Fillmore Central girls group grabbed top placing at LARPH’s second home run of the year. At Lewison’s Heartland Golf Course, the Burros (58) bested nearest foes LARPH (69), La Crescent/Hokah (89), and PEM (92) with D-E (103), St. Charles (139), GMLOS (141), and Kingsland (185) following (of complete teams). It was the LFC’s girls’ first team win of the year, as they were TRC champs last year and took a tight fourth at sections. The Burros got five in the top 25 of 55 total runners. Junior Autumn Rakosnik led the way by taking fifth (20:14.9). She was the defending champion of the meet (19:45.08). Rakosnik is ranked #9 in state. Running in a group were then Grace Kingsley (22:28.8), Charity Kingsley (22:29.5), and Olivia Rindels (22:32), as they took 12th, 13th, and 14th places. Eliza Cullen was then the team’s fifth scoring runner in 23rd place (23:16.2). The Lancers had three in the top eight, but their last two scoring runners were outside the top 30. LARPH had four in the top 25 and their fifth took 26th. Leading the way was the state’s #1-ranked runner in Class A, LARPH’s Caitlin Bauer. The junior (18:28) topped nearest foes, LC/H’s #5-ranked Maya Bartosova (19:11.7) and #7-ranked Hope Docan-Morgan (19:31.4), Hayfield’s #8-ranked Hadley Doman (19:37.9), and LFC’s #9-ranked Rakosnik (20:14.9). The meet thus featured five girls ranked in state in Class A. It was Bauer’s seventh win in seven tries this year, as she has also won the La Crescent 4,000-meter “Crazy Buffalo” run (15:02), the Luther “All-American” Invite (18:13.1), the Roy Griak High School Girls Gopher Competition (17:33.7), a previous home meet at Ferndale Golf Course (19:27.3), Winona’s “Jim Flim” Meet (18:24.3), and the St. Charles Meet (18:43.5). She is in the midst of the best cross country running season ever covered by the Fillmore County Journal Sports. Bauer’s teammate Emily Helgemoe (20:46.9) took seventh (20:46.9) while Vada Larson took 16th (22:50.3) and Glory Erickson 24th (23:18.2). Leading GMLOS were Audrey Main in 10th place (22:06.1) and Sadie Bustad in 18th (22:59.5). Leading Kingsland was Reeyin Lanning in 20th place (23:05). On the guys’ side, Pacelli (35) topped LARPH (51) for first with D-E (101), LFC (110), St. Charles (140), LC/H (158), PEM (161), and GMLOS (169 following (of complete teams). Section 1A foes LARPH (#2), Cotter/HL (#3) and Pacelli (#5) are all ranked in state as of the September 28 polls. The Shamrocks had four in the top nine including race champion, 11th-ranked Zemecha McManus (16:20.6) and third place finisher Isaac Johnson (16:49.5). LARPH’s top runner, #3-ranked Brennan Kunst, took second (16:31) between the two. Kunst was champ at his previous three races (Ferndale, Winona, St. Charles). Grayson Speltz took 7th (17:12.4), Will Jewison 11th (17:55.1), Cole Timm 15th (18:14.1), and Cory Kotsmith 16th (18:20.1) to round out the scoring fivesome for the hosts. Henry Meyer did not score for LARPH but took 18th place (18:58.9). Leading LFC was Andy Brown in 10th place (17:46.4) while Riley Grant took 19th (19:09.8). GMLOS was led by Ethan Schnable in 21st place (19:22.4). Fifty-four guys competed. Each run was 5,000-meters around Lewiston’s Heartland Golf Course.
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