Thursday's cross country meet was the Lucky Lindy Invitational held in Little Falls.

 

The Becker girls team  placed fifth out of 18 teams.   The Bulldogs had five out of the seven varsity girls earn personal records for the day, along with nine of the JV girls also earning PRs.

 

Alli Hendrickson placed seventh overall with a time of 19:31.90 to earn a medal amongst very good competition. The next two Becker runners were once again Lexi Dehmer in 16th and Julia Bengston in 17th, as they passed several runners over the last portion of the race. Their times were 20:18.20 and 20:21.00 — both personal records.

 

Sydney Stommes, in her first varsity race and second cross country race ever, really stepped up, placing 58th with a personal record time of 21:52.40.  Also getting personal records were Victoria Kolbinger in 65th with 22:11.4 and Alli Garding in 67th  with a 22:20.10.  

 

Tate Spinner rounded out Becker’s varsity in 86th, running a time of 23:16.1 despite an injury.  

 

“The girls are improving every meet and are very exciting to watch,” said Head Coach Trish Reimer-Kealy.

 

Team scores: 1). Perham 92; 2). Hopkins 95; 3). St. Cloud Tech 120; 4). Moorhead 159; 5). Becker 163; 6). Bemidji 182; 7). Rocori 190; 8). Alexandria 216; 9). Grand Rapids 217; 10). United North Central 231; 11). Detroit Lakes 275; 12). Brainerd 276; 13). Greenway Nashwauk-Keewatin 303; 14). Roseau 317; 15). Sauk Rapids-Rice 448; 16). St. Cloud Apollo 450; 17). Little Falls 452; 18). Fergus Falls 481.

 

The Becker JV girls placed third overall in the field of 18 schools.  Jada Rositas was 14th (23:08.8 - PR), Callie Doucette 25th (23:49.0 - PR), Siera Knick 26th (23:49.6), Allyna Storms 27th (23:49.8), Gabrielle Imm 28th 23:50.3 - PR), Cayla Pauman 25:06.7 - PR), Shannon Sydow 52nd (25:28.9 - PR), Caylah Chonsky (25:48.0 - PR), Renee Tripp (26:23.8), Haley Benda (26:234.2), Elli Schwartz (26:24.6), Kayden Westin (27:13.7), Alyssa Thielen (28:10.2 - PR), Jessica Sand (28:19.8), Laura Pancoast (29:32.2) and Karly Kowalsky (29:32.4).

 

The Becker boys varsity team placed 15th out of 21 teams.

 

Caleb Foster was again Becker’s #1 runner, placing 36th in a season best time of 17:51.0.

 

Jonathan Novak  came next for Becker in 72nd place, also running a season best time (18:33.3) followed by Keith Sorensen in 94th (19:02.5).

 

Basil Ricker continues to improve in his first CC season, getting a PR time of 19:04.5 for 96th. He moved up from the team’s seventh runner to their fourth with his effort Thursday. Next was Olsen Pancoast (19:08.8), Luke Pappenfus also PR’d with a time of 19:11.3 and Sam Somrock ran 19:50.9.  

 

“This is the earliest in the season that we have gotten all seven guys under 20:00,” said Reimer-Kealy. “There has been better consistency for the boys so far this year and they are running more as a team.”

 

Team scores: 1). Sartell 90; 2). Perham 110; 3). Detroit Lakes 114; 4). Rocori 114; 5). Moorhead 148; 6). Little Falls 159; 7). Alexandria 165; 8). Bemidji 181; 9). Brainerd 207; 10). Greenway/Nashwauk-Keewatin 280; 11). St. Cloud  Tech 289; 12). Monticello 308; 13). St. Cloud Cathedral 350; 14). Grand Rapids 391; 15). Becker 398; 16). Sauk Rapids-Rice 445; 17). Foley 445; 18). Roseau 446; 19). St. Cloud Apollo 550; 20). UNC 577; 21). Fergus Falls 621.

 

The JV boys were led by Lachlan Lahr with a time of 21:24.9, followed by Brett Parson (22:59.4), Brendan Potter (23:42.1) Erik Parson (24:09.2) and Logan Lahr (25:46.3).

 

Becker’s top junior high runners were Bennett Edling, David Myers and Aaron Gregory for the boys. Madison McDonald, Abby Nelson, and Olivia Mateyka for the girls.

Becker’s next meet is the Roy Griak invitational at the UofM Les Balsted Golf Course  Saturday for the varsity runners.