Spencer, Ia (Northwest Iowa Now) – Spencer hosted one of Class 3A’s State Qualifying Cross Country Meets Wednesday at the Spencer Municipal Golf Course.
In the Girls race, it was Natalie Anderson running 18:20.31 to take 1st Place. In 2nd was Harlan’s Ashlyn Rau with a time of 18:38.6 and Glenwood’s Grace Berglund took 3rd at 18:52.85.
Sioux Center placed 4th and 5th with Adurina Jones running 19:01.53 and Molly Isakson was 5th at 19:19.47.
Storm Lake was led by Silvia Kampbell, running a time of 19:43.14 to finish 13th.
In front for Spencer was Minnie Matthiesen at 20:03.28 which was good for 18th.
The team score had Sioux Center dominating with 51 points. Harlan was 2nd with 102, edging out a 3rd place MOC-Floyd Valley team with 111. Spencer took 8th and Storm Lake was 10th.
For the Boys race, Gavin Weber of Algona won with a time of 16:06.71. In 2nd was Storm Lake’s Joel Ramirez-Parra with a time of 16:20.94. Drew Cundy of Sioux Center ran 16:22.41 to finish 3rd with MOC-Floyd Valley’s Isaac Hummel in 4th at 16:35.16. Caden Kooiker of Sioux Center took 5th at 16:35.5.
Spencer was led by Rylei Koppie, who took 8th, qualifying for the State Meet with a time of 16:48.12. Also on his way to the State meet is Nathan Rodriguez for Spencer who clocked 17:07.93
In the team score, Sioux Center won with an outstanding 33 points. Storm Lake also put together a nice team performance together, qualifying as a team for the State meet with a 2nd place score of 72. In 3rd was MOC-Floyd Valley, scoring 91 points. Spencer was 4th, missing qualifying as a team by 42 points with a team score of 133.
