Cheney team will try again in Districts
Medical Lake's Kaylee Dennler won another individual title and was named the Northeast A League's Most Valuable Runner at district competition Oct. 26.
SPOKANE – Cross country is a sport of notable distances like 5,000 meters which equates to just a bit over 3 miles.
But as was the case with Medical Lake teams in the Oct. 26 district championships what separated the Cardinals from their goals were mere seconds.
In boys competition over the 5,000-meter course at Lakeside High School is was less than 10 seconds that was the difference between how the Cardinal boys will be represented at regionals next week in Yakima.
As it shook out, Colville won in a tiebreaker with their sixth man's finish to edge Lakeside after a 41-41 tie with Medical Lake third at 43. The Cardinals will advance four athletes to regionals.
The girls were more cut and dried where Lakeside won with 35 points and ML second with 40. Both send teams to the next round where five teams advance to state on Nov. 9 in Pasco.
With Kaylee Dennler running a 20 minute, 12.95 second time finishing just 4 1/2 seconds ahead of Lakeside's Sadie Meyring (20:17.19), the Medical Lake junior standout finished her Northeast A League season undefeated and earned its most valuable runner honor.
"We lost the Lakeside by five points, that's the closest we've been to them in a long time," head coach Gene Blankenship said, adding,"(And) we only ran six girls."
Remember, cross country events are scored lowest to highest finishers starting at one, two, three and so on.
Critical to the Cardinals finish were sophomore Autumn Trout (21:15.57) in fourth and the team's lone senior, seventh-place Hannah Luzier (21:47.56).
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