Jakob McCleary returned from mono and won the boys’ race. Carson Hespe, Micah Thompson, Bjorn Anderson, and Carter Flatau (taking a wrong turn and running an extra 30 meters, came back and passed the number one runner from Detroit Lakes for the perfect score). Caden Doll, Aiden Kennedy, and Elijah Morris rounded out Perham’s top 8 runners.  Detroit Lakes was second with 51 points and Hawley took third with 67.

Here are the individual boys’ varsity results by team:
Perham
1. Jakob McCleary 17:46.4, 2. Carson Hespe 17:57.3, 3. Micah Thompson 18:36.7, 4. Bjorn Anderson 18:46.4, 5. Carter Flatau 19:16.8, 9. Caden Doll 19:21.9, 11. Aiden Kennedy 19:41.3, 14. Elijah Morris 19:49.5, 18. Gabe Thompson 20:38.8

Detroit Lakes
6. John Bergum 19:17.2, 7. Clint Andresen 19:18.4, 10. Ryan Bergum 19:34.8, 12. Cole Weber 19:42.2, 17. Mason Hamar 20:31.8, 20. Casey Parks 21:01.5, 21. Jacob Trout 21:06.8, 23. Jackson Zurn 21:30.9

Hawley
8. Hayden Grani 19:21.6, 13. Landon Bakke 19:46.9, 15. Ben Geeslin 19:52.8, 16. Ian Kronbeck 20:01.3, 19. Gage Fossen 20:51.9, 22. Brevin Stoa 21:11.8

Hawley put up a score of 26 and Perham scored 31 points in a tight girls’ race.  “Kaia Starzl, Mya Morris and Gracie Morris gave us a great 1-2-3 punch with all 3 finishing within 10-12 seconds of each other,” reported Perham Head Coach Jeff Morris. “Returning to the lineup was Aspen Rhode and along with Quincy Anderson rounded out the top 5 with great races. Liz Birkeland, Mia Lung and Lauryn Rustad rounded out the top 8 Perham runners. The cool part today is we put 7 runners ahead of Hawley's # 5 runner.”

Hawley had the champion, Lily Olson, runner-up, Faith Rustad and fourth place finisher, Lily Peterson.  Starzl was third, Gracie Morris fifth and Mya Morris sixth for Perham.

Here are the individual girls’ varsity results by team:
Hawley
1. Lily Olson 20:29.4, 2. Faith Rustad 20:29.8, 4. Lily Peterson 21:27.6, 7. Ivy Tickel 21:34.8, 12. Piper Myran 22:16.6, 14. Ingrid Rustad 22:50.5, 16. Eagen Hastings 23:15.3, 18. Mia Tickel 23:44.7

Perham
3. Kaia Starzl 21:18.2, 5. Gracie Morris 21:29.3, 6. Mya Morris 21:30.6, 8. Quincy Anderson 21:59.1, 9. Aspen Rhode 22:01.4, 10. Mia Lung 22:07.4, 11. Liz Birkeland 22:07.7, 13. Lauryn Rustad 22:47.6, 19. Stella Strong 23:51.5, 20. Mary Wunderlich 2:02.0, 23. Lola Strong 24:23.4

Detroit Lakes
15. Katie McConkey 23:07.0, 17. Julia Stefl 23:26.0, 21. Kira Wolf 25:08.4, 22. McKenna Mallow 25:10.8

Perham returns to action next Wednesday, September 30th against Staples and Pequot Lakes, then the following week Perham will host the HOL Conference Championships on Tuesday, October 6th.