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Two Huskies post all-state finishes in cross-country
Sophomore Jakob Hiett achieved the goal
he'd set for himself at the state 4A cross-coun-
try championships Saturday, Nov. 3, at Lane
Community College, placing eighth to finish in
the top 10.
His run capped an up-and=down season
for the Huskies, one downer being the non-ap-
pearance of senior Daniel Danforth, who quali-
fied for state at the Oct. 25 district meet, but did
not run due to disciplinary reasons.
The girls team, running at state for the
fourth straight year, finished 12th in the team
race as Nicole Rasmussen led them with a
12th-place individual finish in 20:16.
Both she and Hiett came away with al-state
honors, both finishing on the second team.
Though the course used for the state meet
is held at the same location as the Sky-Em dis-
trict championships, LCC, the layout is differ-
ent and the course appeared slower Saturday"
than the previous week at district as nearly all
Sky-Em runners failed to even match the times
they ran on Oct. 25.
"It was a slow course," Coach Billy
Snow said. "At the bottom of the one hill kids
were almost having to come to a stop so they
wouldn't slide. Everybody was slower."
Rasmussen was the only Husky to actually
improve on her time from last week, doing so
by 12 seconds. She beat Sisters' Zoe Falk, who
ran 29 seconds faster than Rasmussen to win
the district title the previous week, on Saturday
and also finished well ahead of Scappoose's Tia
Carnahan, whom she'd never beaten before.
"This week she had people to run with,"
Snow said of Rasmussen. "Last week Zoe
made that breakaway and Nicole was by her-
self for two or three miles."
Paige Sanders was the Huskies' second
runner, finishing 43rd in 21:52.
"I was just really tired today," she said,
adding that she had been aiming for all-state
recognition, which goes to the top 28 runners.
"I didn't really do that well."
But, Sanders .said, considering that the
Sweet Home girls didn't look like they had a
chance to even make state early in the season
when Rasmussen was living in North Dakota,
it was a positive to be in the meet.
"Just being here was good," she said.
Sierra Swanson was 79th, in 23:45, Halley
Hummer was right behind her in 80th (23:46)
• and Candalynn Johnson was 105th (30:14) to
round out the Huskies' scoring.
"I was really excited that we got to come
to this meet," said Swanson, a freshman.
She said the difference between other
meets the Huskies have been in was the com-
petition.
"You definitely have a lot of people that
you can pass in it," she said of the race. "In
district you don't have a lot of people that you
can pass - big spaces. There's more motivation
here.
"I did not break my PR, which I was hop-
. ing to do, but I know it's a tough course. But
for most part, think I did OK."
Snow said he was "pleasantly surprised"
Nicole Rasmussen
by the girls' performance.
"I was hoping the girls team wouldn't fin-
ish last," he said. "I didn't look real close at
the other teams, I just knew we weren't a real
strong team."
The girls individual title went to Katy Pot-
ter of Siuslaw, who outran fellow seniors Sierra
Brown of Hidden Valley and two-time defend-
ing champion Alisha Luna of Klamath Union
to win the title after placing third behind Luna
and Brown last year.
La Salle won the team title with 54 points,
followed by Klamath Union (70), Molalla (76)
and Scappoose (175) on the awards stand. Sis-
ters was seventh with 194 points.
On the boys side, Siuslaw's Matthew
Campbell finished first in 15:49 to lead a 1-2-
5-9-17 sequence by the Vikings to win the team
title with 29 points, ahead of Noah Valley (52),
La Salle (93) and Hidden Valley (122). Sisters
was ninth (240) and La Pine was 14th (287).
Hiett, who finished 28th last year at state
in 17:22, stayed just behind the front pack of
runners for much of the race, pacing primarily
off of Sisters' Brandon Pollard, whom he beat
for this year's district championship.
"The rivalry between Brandon Pollard and
I is really great," Hiett said. "I was afraid he
was fight behind me the whole time or some-
one else was coming. I just really gutted it out
in that last 400. And it paid off. I wanted top
10 and got eighth. My freshman year, I ran just
to run at state. Here I ran to achieve something
and see what I could do."
Hiett said his biggest progress this year
was disciplining himself early in the race.
"Not going out of chute so fast, trying to
keep calm," he said. "I think I did a really good
job of that here at state and at districts. I run
a lot smarter, faster races when I do that. Now
Paige Saunders
I've got a feel for what it should be like."
Snow noted that both Hiett and Rasmus-
sen achieved the goals they'd set.
"Our goal for Jakob was to go down there
and run the same type of race as he did last
week and he did. With Nicole, our goal was
top 20 and she was 12th, with an improvement
form her district time, which was pretty im-
pressive given the course conditions.
"There were some milestones reached
there, some goals reached."
Girls Team Scores: (1) La Salle 54; (2) Klamath Union
70; (3) Molalla 76; (4) Scappoose 175; (5) Siuslaw 184;
(6) Phoenix 191; (7) Sisters 194; (8) Cascade 214; (9)
Stayton 235; (10) Crook County 240; (11) YamhilI-Carl-
ton 261; (12) Sweet Home 277; (13) Sutherlin 283; (14)
Ridgeview 292.
Top 10 and Sky-Era League Finishers
(1) Katy Potter (Siuslaw) 18:56; (2) Sierra Brown (Hid-
den Valley) 19:04; (3) Alisha Luna (Klamath Union)
19:29; (4) Nevina DeLuca (Phoenix) 19:45; (5) Amanda
Welch (La Grande) 19:46; (6) Carly Veasy (La Salle)
19:49; (7) Charlie Davidson (Scappose) 19:57; (8) Em-
ily Bever (Molalla) 19:58; (9) Christina Tyson (Klamath
Union) 19:58; (10) Dakota Steen (Ridgeview) 19:59;
(12) Nicole Rasmussen (SH) 20:16; (21) Zoe Falk (Sis-
ters) 20:53; (24) Breanna Wright (Cottage Grove) 20:59;
(41) Macadia Calavan (Sisters) 21:39; (43) Paige Sand-
ers (SH) 21:52; (54) Mary Stewart (Sisters) 22:13; (55)
Natalie Marshall (Sisters) 22:13; (65) Madison Boettner
(Sisters) 22:49; (71) Katie Stewart (Sisters) 23:25; (79)
Sierra Swanson (SH) 23:45; (80) Halley Hummer (SH)
23:46; (94) Aria Blumm (Sisters) 25:11; (105) Canda-
lynn Johnson (SH) 30:14; (106) Tashana Mithen 30:54.
Boys Team Scores: (1) SJuslaw 29; (2) North Valley 52;
(3) Lit Salle 93; (4) Hidden Valley 122; (5) Scappoose
198; (6) Philomath 211; (7) North Bend 223; (8)
Astoria 226; (9) Sisters 240; (10) Newport 240; (11 ) Bak-
er 255; (12) Crook County 262; (13) Molalla 280; (14) La
Pine 287.
Top 10 and Sky-Era League Finishers
(1) Matthew Campbell (Siuslaw) 15:49; (2) Mitchell But-
ler (Siuslaw) 15:49; (3) Jonathan Cornish (North
Valley)16:02; (4) David Cornish {North Valley) 16:02; (5)
Mack Marbas (Siuslaw)16:09; (6) Brett Willyard (Sea-
side)16:09; (7) Pake Benthin (Molalla) 16:34; (8) Jakob
Sierra Swanson, left, and Haiiey Hummer
battle a pair of Cascade runners at state.
Jacob Hie
Hiett (SH) 16:40; (9) Hayden Schaffner (Siuslaw) 16:44;
(10) Will Thompson (La Salle) 16:44; (14) Brandon Pol-
lard (Sisters) 16:47; (44) Nick Clark (La Pine) 17:55; (53)
Austin Smith (La Pine) 18:07; (57) Dyut Fetrow (Sisters)
18:18; (61) lan Baldessari (Sisters) 18:21; (65) Izaak
Kanzig (Sisters) 18:33; (71) Taylor Ogle (La Pine) 18:43;
(73) Tyress TurnsPlenty (La Pine) 18:47; (74) Devon
Calvin (Sisters) 18:50; (79) Shea Krevi (Sisters) 18:59;
(80) Niico Haddad (La Pine) 18:59: (81) Gabriel Rice
(Sisters) 18:59; (83) Thorin Wilson (La Pine) 19:07; (89)
Gavin Boen (La Pine) 19:29.
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