He’s won every other 5000-meter cross country race he’s ran this year, so adding TRC Champion to his accolades list was only fitting. LARP sophomore Luke O’Hare (17:30.2) continued his front-running season by besting PEM’s Austin Dawley (17:33.1) for the Three Rivers Conference title. It’s O’Hare’s sixth straight win. He shaved nearly a minute off last year’s 9th place time (18:24.7). His efforts helped LARP’s boys take second (65) to PEM (29). The Bulldogs had five in the top 11 (2, 3, 4, 8, 11). LARP’s Aiden Ellinghuysen (6th > 18:01.8), Tyler Rislov (14th), and Ricky Buchanon (18th) finished top 20 (of 140 runners). Four other Cardinal-Trojans (Mitchell Ledebuhr, Gabe Huelskamp, Aleric Frick, Brad Colbenson) finished in the top 35. Chatfield finished 5th behind top 30 runners, 8th grader Treyton Lanning (19th) and Evan Wright (27th). LFC took 10th and Kingsland 11th (of 11). Neither squad had a top 30 runner. On the girls side, last year’s top county runner, state-qualifier Kaylee Arndt, made her season debut (injured). LFC’s stand-out sophomore finished fifth overall (21:01.1) in a time slightly less than her finish at last year’s TRC meet. The top five girls from last year were the top five this year (different order). Cotter’s Ping sisters, Grace (18:45) and Lauren (19:03.1) took first and second, followed by teammate Morgan Arnold (19:44.3), PEM’s Madilyn Simon (20:34) and then Arndt. The Ramblers (49) won the girls team title over PEM (70). Chatfield took fourth, LFC fifth, and LARP sixth. Kingsland was incomplete. Gopher 8th grader Aletta Strande took 8th. Teammates Beatrice Martin (15th), Katelyn Dornack (20th), and Abbi Gillespie (21st) finished top 30. LARP had a trio in the top 20, seventh grade move-ups Ellie Ekern (13th) and Lauren Honken (17th), plus Hannah Linder (19th). LFC’s Brielle Ruen (25th) and Addie Miner (29th) finished top 30, as did Kingsland’s Susan Mettler (24th). The race was run at Lewiston Country Club. All runners to finish top 21 made All-Conference.
O’Hare TRC C-C Champion
