Runners better times at I'Falls X-country meet

Submitted by
Coach Sariina Kalli

International Falls Invitational Cross Country Meet
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Girls Varsity/JV 4000 meters
1st Victoria Alexander 15:16 (-2 sec PR)
4th Emily Fraser 15:55
10th Saragh Fraser 16:11
16th Skylar Arpin 16:33 (-29 sec PR)
36th Katelyn Ericksen 18:17
40th Katie Laugtug 18:28
50th Sara Achen 19:21 (Auto PR)
55th Kendall Ericksen 19:35 (Auto PR)
69th Beth Crompton 21:10 (68 sec PR)
70th Melissa Gutenkunst 21:35 (-57 sec PR)
72nd Lexi Ubel 21:42 (-1:35 PR)
78th Amber Stavig 26:46 (-5 sec PR)

Girls Team
1 Grand Rapids 29
2 Lake of the Woods 65
3 International Falls 102
4 Ely 114
5 Eveleth-Gilbert 133
6 Virginia 156
7 Dryden 167
8 Mesabi East 184

Girls Junior High 3200 meters
1st Elizabeth Fraser 13:58
No Team Score

Boys Varsity/JV 5000 meters
30th Bryan Hasbargen 18:57
39th Dyson Dahl 19:34 (-10 sec PR)
61st Nolan Short 21:33 (-1:32 PR)
63rd Ben Washburn 21:48 (-36 sec PR)
66th Nolan Lapos 22:01.11 (-36 sec PR)
67th Zach Lockner 22:01.22 (-48 sec PR)
74th Max Kasberger 23:08 (-40 sec PR)

77th Ryan Cooper 23:35
81st Eduardo Thome 25:21 (-13 sec PR)
82nd AJ Washburn 26:09 (-1:08 PR)

Boys Team
1 Eveleth-Gilbert 34
2 Grand Rapids 60
3 Virginia 63
4 Mesabi East 85
5 International Falls 121
6 Lake of the Woods 176
7 Dryden 202

Meet Tidbits
Freshman Canadian Victoria Alexander cut her personal best 4000-meter time by another two seconds, finishing 35 seconds ahead of second place runner Megan West of Mesabi East. Eighth grader Skylar Arpin dropped under 17 minutes for the first time, finishing with a 29-second PR, in 16:33. Senior Katie Laugtug finally broke the PR she set back in 2005, completing the course in 18:28. Seventh graders Sara Achen and Kendall Ericksen jumped up to varsity this race, and each earned automatic PRs in a distance one half mile longer than the junior high races they have been running. Achen made it on the varsity team in her first attempt at the distance. All five JV girls earned PRs as well, the largest improvement coming from Lexi Ubel’s 1:35 decrease.

Most of the boys continued their streaks of improvement with PRs ranging from 10 seconds to more than a minute. In only his second 5000-meter race ever, eighth grader Nolan Short ran one minute, 32 seconds faster than his one attempt, at Hawley, last year. Sophomore AJ Washburn had the next largest improvement, coming in 1:08 faster than any previous race. Sophomore Dyson Dahl has gotten faster at each meet this season, improving nearly two minutes from his Sept. 10 race in Roseau. Senior Nolan Lapos, juniors Zach Olson and Eduardo Thome, and sophomores Max Kasberger and Ben Washburn, all dropped their times for the second or third consecutive race.