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Ely boys top home meet, girls finish second

Keith Vandervort
Posted 10/7/20

ELY – The Ely High School boys and girls cross country teams hosted a triangular meet on their home course at the Ely Golf Course last Friday. The boys team had three of the top five finishers …

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Ely boys top home meet, girls finish second

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ELY – The Ely High School boys and girls cross country teams hosted a triangular meet on their home course at the Ely Golf Course last Friday. The boys team had three of the top five finishers to take first place against Virginia and Mt. Iron-Buhl. The girls team was edged by Virginia for a second.
“The kids are always excited to run at their home meet here in Ely,” said Head Coach Jayne Dusich. “Our golf course is one of the toughest area cross country courses, with the hills. The cold weather was good for running and there was no wind.  Times for most of our runners were very good as Virginia and MIB have plenty of good runners to race against.”
She said the race was changed up this year.
“They ran in waves with the boys first and girls second to make it more competitive and more fun to watch as we only had three teams,” she said. “It was fun to watch all the sixth to ninth grade boys and girls out there racing at the same time.”
For the boys 5,000-meter race, Virginia’s Cameron Stocks paced all runners with a time of 16:22. He was chased by Ely’s Jasper Johnston with a second-place time of 17:12. MIB’s JD Kayfes was third in 17:22, followed by Ely’s Emmett Faltesek, 17:46, and Gabriel Pointer, 17:52.
Other boys runners for the Timberwolves, with place and time, included: Jake Cochran, 8th, 18:24, Joey Bianco, 13th, 19:01, Jon Hakala, 20th, 20:03, Ben Cavalier, 24th, 21:58, Leo Stalmer, 26th, 22:43, and Riley Bishop, 31st, 34:01.
The varsity girls race was paced by MIB freshman runners Liz and Kate Nelson, with times of 20:12 and 20:13 respectively, followed by Ely’s Zoe Devine, third place, 20:21, Emma Lamppa, Virginia, 4th, 20:43, and Ely’s Phoebe Helms, 5th, 21:28.
Other Ely girls finishers, with place and time, included Brynn Vollom, 9th, 23:09, Sydney Durkin, 11th, 23:44, Gracie Pointer, 12th, 23:58, Julia Schwinghamer, 13th, 24:13, Elsie Vollom, 18th, 26:03, Abigail Thompson, 19th, 26:04, Amelia Pluth, 20th, 26:22, and Juliet Stouffer, 25th, 30:28.
Ely was set to wrap up the season on Tuesday at the Iron Range Conference Quadruple Tri at Eagle Ridge Golf Course in Colaraine. Section meet competition is scheduled for Oct. 12-13.