Faster LFC Girls win at D-E

Section 1A girls cross country foes beware. Defending champion, 4th-ranked Lanesboro/Fillmore Central, is better than last season. At the D-E Invite, they did something they didn’t do last year. Repeating as champions was same as same. They did so putting six girls in the top ten (with a seventh in the top 20). LFC downed nearest competitor Rochester Area Home School 22 to 63. Already-known senior Kiera Olson led the way, taking second (19:31) overall to RAHS’s Kara Lindberg (19:05.7). Finishing third, putting her name in the LFC hat, was 8th grader Kaylee Arndt (19:48.7). Arndt ran with the team a season ago, but never finished so high. Leah Ruen (4th, 19:53.4), Bailey Ruen (6th, 20:00.4), Emily Snyder (7th, 20:01.4), Maddie Smith (10th, 20:19.0), and Ashley Miner (19th, 21:08.3) weren’t far behind. With four sub-20-minute times over the 5000-meters, LFC did something they didn’t at state, sections, or at last year’s D-E Invite. An incomplete LARP girls team was headed by sophomore Emily Didier (20th). The LARP boys, led by senior Dylan Linder (8th), took 4th. LFC’s boys finished 8th (of 8) with Casey Olson the top runner (22nd).