![]() ![]() ![]() That didn’t stop Samantha Stokesbary and Brooklyn Goelz from clawing their way through the 256-runner pack. “I wanted to see what Taylor (Post) and Naomi (Wallace) could do, but on back-to-back days they tweaked their ankles … ‘you gotta be kidding me, I just broke my girls’ team!” “On the girls’ side, I had a couple injuries last week so I decided to sit them out just to play it safe,” Moeller said. The Arrows had just two entries in the girls’ varsity 5K, as their top pair was out of the lineup Friday. Voss looked fit in pacing his way to a time of 19:28.75, good for 240 th in the large field, while Landon Johnson (20:51.05), Lucas Zupp (21:06.08) and Merrick Heidebrink (21:23.08) followed in the 287 th, 290 th and 294 th positions, respectively. Strasser came in 78 overall with, as Moeller noted, an outstanding time for his run of the 2022 campaign. The PAS senior went out strong and held a solid top-30 position in the early stages of the run, before fading against a fierce field of 299 harriers. We’re coming in quicker, which is really fun.”Ī two-time state-meet qualifier in Minnesota, Strasser was chomping at the bit in his second Twilight race. Same with Aiden (Voss) I think he ran 30 seconds faster this year than he did last year at this meet. So, to see him come out that strong is pretty cool. “Caden (Strasser) ran more than a minute faster, a 17:19, which is probably one of his better average times from last season. ![]() “I was looking at last year’s results for comparison and on the boys’ side pretty much all the boys, except one, ran exceptionally faster – which is pretty exciting to see,” Pipestone Area head coach Mark Moeller said. The Arrows had five varsity runners in an elite field in the boys’ high school varsity 5K event and most ran better than last year, when PAS competed at the meet for the first time. Pleasant temperatures and a 12-mile-an hour wind greeted JV, varsity and college XC teams from South Dakota and several surrounding states, making for some tight turns in the early stages of each of the six events. An even smaller contingent of Pipestone Area harriers took to the flat, yet meandering Yankton Trail Park course for the 11 th annual Augustana Twilight meet Friday night in Sioux Falls, S.D. ![]()
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