Congratulations to the Storm Junior High Boys as they won their second meet this season in Paynesville on Thursday, September 23.
Bolstered by three top 10 finishes and six top 16 finishes, the boys captured the team title with 37 points, topping runner up New London-Spicer by 23 points. Rocori was third with 73. Melrose followed at 86 and BOLD was the last complete team with a score of 118.
Jack Grabinski traversed the 2500 meter course (1.55 miles) in 10:26 finishing in the runner up position, just four seconds behind the winner. Sam Ringger was four seconds behind Jack and finished in fifth. Ryan Sweeney ran a 10:57 good for 10th place. Isaac Freese finished 12th and Nathan Wollak and Dakota Johnson came in together at the 15th spot.
Ian Galligan covered the very hilly 3.1 mile course in Paynesville in 18:51, good enough for a 9th place finish.
On the girls side, Julia Severson finished just 7 seconds out from the 15th place medal, finishing with a time of 18:08 in the 4000 meter (2.5 mile) race. In the JV race, Colleen Schimnich (4th), Nicole Bukowski (6th), Matraca Conarro (12th) and Marissa Leeb (13th) won ribbons.
Michaela Wolfe nabbed the 14th spot in the Junior High Girls race with a time of 12:34.
Congratulations to all the runners for another fun day at the races!
Go Storm!
