Lund-Andersen ninth to lead Bulldogs at Farragut

SPIRIT LAKE — Despite three varsity runners resting for the weekend, the Bulldog boys and girls cross country teams showed their depth and each finished fifth among 13 teams at the Timberlake Invitational on Saturday at Farragut State Park.

Borah and Capital, both of Boise, won the respective boys and girls races.

In the boys race, Finan Lund-Andersen took 9th place out of 99 runners in his first race of the season after sitting out last week with the flu. He stormed the challenging 5K course in 16:52 to earn meet medalist honors. He was followed by Clay Rasummusen (17:38) in 23rd, Reilly Wolf (17:41) in 24th and Cole Dillon (17:48) in 25th) in a tight pack, with Peik Lund-Andersen (18:41) rounding out the scorers in 47th. Ephraim Weisz, who has been a consistent top five for the team, was out resting a sprained ankle for the meet.

The Boys JV team placed fourth due to incredible team pack running. Story Crosset placed 11th out of 150 runners in 18:57, Gabe Merithew was 20th in 19:32, Hyrum Hunker 21st in 19:32, Garrett Pierce 24th in 19:34, Dutt Rogers in 25th in 19:34 and Wyatt Hagen was 27th in 19:40.

The Sandpoint girls were led by Junior Hannah Davidson, who placed 15th out of 77 runners with a time of 21:10 to earn meet medalist honors. Also earning medalist honors was Niah Brass, who placed 19th in 21:23. Sharon Rowe was 23rd in 22:10, Farli Boden was 26th in 22:25, Dana Beaty was 34th in 22:34 and Chloe Braedt was 41st in a PR 22:58 for the girls.

The Bulldog girls were competitive with the Boise 5A schools, even with top five runners Katherine Kaul and Rainey Woodward out for the meet.

The girls JV team placed fourth in the meet, led by freshman Mesa Keating, who ran a PR time of 23:19 to place 8th out of the 70 runners. Paige Davidson was 15th in 23:58, Chloe Pierce was 17th in 24:06, Erin Meek 24th in 25:01 and Valerie Wickboldt was 33rd in 25:51 to round out the 5 scorers.

Sandpoint will be running again next Saturday at Hayden Canyon.