Detroit Lakes’ Julia Steff and Isla Pender put up impressive times on Tuesday afternoon to lead the Lakers to a first-place finish at Tipsinah.
Steffl (20:40) and Pender (20:44) took third and fourth to pace the Lakers as the fastest team at the West Central Area invite. The Lakers finished with a team score of 43, edging out the host school by two points.
Sadie Johnson took sixth with a time of 21:49, while Karlie Skarie finished in 15th place (26:16). Lilly Baethke rounded out the top five Lakers in 17th place with a time of 23:36.
Detroit Lakes’ performance followed a second-place finish at the Mid-State Conference meet last Thursday. The Lakers finished behind Staples-Motley (34) with 73 team points, which was good enough to beat Park Rapids by six.
Pender took sixth place with a time of 20:34. Steffl was seven seconds behind in eighth place, while Johnson raced to ninth (20:58). Skarie (22:55) and Baethke (23:07) took 27th and 31st.
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Boys take third at WCA.
The Detroit Lakes boys team missed a second-place finish by one point at Tipsinah. Breckenridge-Wahpeton totaled 61 points to the Lakers’ 62. West Central Area cruised to a first-place finish with 19 points.
Cole Weber took sixth place with a time of 18:18. The next fastest Laker was Francis Braydon in 11th at 19:10. Casey Parks (19:55), Joe Skinner (10:22) and Micah Barberg (20:24) took 16h, 17th and 18th place, respectively.
At Mid-State, Weber paced the Lakers again to a 14th-place finish in 18:21. Francis took 17th with a time of 18:46, while Parks (20:14), Barberg (20:23) and Skinner (21:05) completed the Detroit Lakes top five. Xander Jessen (21:10) took 31st and 32nd.
The Lakers took fourth in their conference meet with 114 points. Park Rapids Area (39), Staples-Motley (42) and Pequot Lakes (45) earned the top three team scores.
