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STATE CROSS COUNTRY
HELENA // OCT. 25
CLASS A // BOYS
JONATHAN EASTWOOD BELGRADE
CAMERON MIEKLE HAMILTON
KARILL APEDAILE HAMILTON
7. KYLE MCLAUGHLIN BELGRADE
JALEN TWO LEGGINS HARDIN
CARSON JESSOP CORVALLIS
13. JOSH JESSOP CORVALLIS
15. TANNER LEHR
HAMILTON 16:45.50
CLASS A // GIRLS
SAMANTHA MUNDEL CFALLS
AMELIA GARDNER CORVALLIS
Columbia Falls’ Samantha Mundel is lifted into the air by Whitefish’s Sarah Latcham after the pair finished first and second in the Class A race. GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
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TYLER MORGAN LAUREL
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RONALD VENEMA CORVALLIS
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KOLE TISON HAMILTON
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10. AUSTIN STRADLEY CUSTER CO.
15:22.24
15:29.21
16:05.82
16:09.63
16:14.59
16:15.39
8.
CALEB WARE HARDIN
16:16.62
16:17.72
16:21.59
16:27.44
12. ASHTON JONES DAWSON CO.
16:36.25
16:39.00
14. SAGE SCHOONEN DILLON
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Mundel Cruises to Class A Championship
COLUMBIA FALLS SENIOR WINS STATE TITLE; WHITEFISH GIRLS GRAB SECOND-PLACE TROPHY
it,” Latcham said afterward. “I trained incredibly hard this summer. That was the one thing in my mind when I was putting in 12-mile days. I knew what I wanted.”
Latcham’s No. 2 finish fu- eled Whitefish to second place as a team for the second year in a row. The Lady Bulldogs tal- lied 94 points. Barrett Gray fin- ished ninth (19:58.16) and Pey- ton Twete was 18th (20:33.45). Sarah Perez earned 25th (20:45.99) and Annika Gordon was 40th (21:18.55).
Polson’s Ryan Harrop earned seventh (19:53.72).
Corvallis won the team ti- tle with 65 points. Hamilton was third with 130 points.
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SARAH LATCHAM WHITEFISH
ALBONY JESSOP 5. CORVALLIS
7. RYAN HARROP POLSON
BARRETT GRAY WHITEFISH
MEI LI STEVENS HAMILTON
13. RACHEL DAVID HAVRE
LYNN REYNOSO
15. CORVALLIS 20:20.16
By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
race with high expectations af- ter winning her second North- western A divisional title a week earlier. She jumped out front early on and held off a swarm of runners, including Whitefish’s Sarah Latcham.
As Mundel turned up the
pace, Latcham held her posi- tioning and finished in second (18:45.64).
“Last year at state I was 16th and was the first person not to get a medal. It made me really hungry for a medal this year and I came back and I got
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he kept hearing the foot- steps behind her, but Sa- mantha Mundel never
16:39.05
16:44.92
18:19.70
18:45.64
4.
JAYCIE SCHMALZ HAMILTON
18:59.17
6.
KAITLYN POSS FERGUS
10. KAITLIN STROMBERG HAMILTON
19:38.14
19:40.54
19:50.21
8.
LEXI GRADWOHL LAUREL
19:53.72
19:57.36
19:58.16
19:59.74
looked back.
The senior from Columbia
Falls pushed herself into the lead pack and held on to win the Class A state cross country championship in Helena last weekend. A year after placing ninth at state, she crossed the finish line first, 18:19.70.
“I actually pushed myself to where I almost passed out,” she said afterward. “That was my goal for this race.”
Mundel entered the final
“I ACTUALLY PUSHED MYSELF TO WHERE I ALMOST PASSED OUT. THAT WAS MY GOAL FOR THIS RACE.” SAMANTHA MUNDEL
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amilton placed four runners in the top 15 en route to the Class A boys
12. EMILY REGAN CUSTER CO.
20:03.43
14. GRACE KURFMAN CORVALLIS
20:08.40
20:14.08
20:15.47
title.
Jonathan Eastwood won
the individual title, 15:22.24. Whitefish’s Keaton Grove was the top local runner, fin-
ishing 26th in 17:05.38.
2014