HAM LAKE — Repeating as Class A champ was going to be a tough task for the New London-Spicer girls’ cross country team.
A season ago, the Wildcats claimed a championship at Les Bolstad Golf Course. With hopes of a repeat, NLS needed to get it done on a new course at Majestic Oaks Golf Club on Saturday.
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Ultimately, the Wildcats finished in sixth place with 187 points.
“We wished for a better outcome but on this particular day,” said NLS sophomore Kyla Vick. “We just raced the best we could.”
Mankato Loyola/Cleveland/St. Clair won the girls’ title with 96. Barnesville was the runner-up with 147, followed by St. Cloud Cathedral’s 153, Goodhue’s 156 and St. John’s Prep’s 164.
“It was definitely nerve-wracking,” Wildcats junior Hazel Vetsch said about stepping up to the starting line. “It’s a new course this year so we knew it was gonna be different.”
Vetsch elaborated on the course, “It was pretty hard because the course kind of bottlenecks pretty quickly so you have to kind of get out to a faster start. … At the beginning, I got blocked a little bit, but that was hard.”
Vick secured All-State honors for the second straight season. She finished in 24th place at 19 minutes...