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Otter Girls Take Second Place in Opening CC Meet

By Craig Olson, 09/04/20, 5:00PM CDT

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The Fergus Falls girls’ cross country team opened their season with a second place finish in a triangular at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School which included St. Cloud Apollo and Willmar.  Willmar had a perfect score of 15 to win the event.  Fergus Falls edged Apollo 59-60 for second place.

Willmar eighth-graders Lauren Eilers (19:56.7) and Erin Eilers (20:05.3) were the top two finishers, followed by teammates Lyndi Koosman (21:00.8), Nina Dawson (21:07.9) and Hannah Quinn (21:08.4).

Senior Emily Nuss (22:12.7) was the top Otter finisher, taking seventh place.  Senior Sierra Hatlewick (23:03.5) was tenth, junior Ainsley Hansen (23:31.7) claimed eleventh place, and sophomores Karolyn Papon (24:35.3) and Rebecca Schindler (24:36.9) took fifteenth and sixteenth place, respectively.

Juniors Brooke Verkinnes (21:51.5) and Noelle Hackenmueller (22:23.5) were the top Apollo runners in sixth and eighth place.