The Red-Raider girls cross-country team traveled to Decorah, Iowa Saturday.  They raced some excellent teams from Iowa with currently ranked #1 teams Iowa West (large schools) and Decorah (small schools).  Central placed second with a score of 75 points.  The following runners scored for the Red-Raiders.  Miranda Sanchez 8th in 15:56, Morgan Sanger 12th in 16:09, Abby Knutson 14th in 16:15, Violet Weibel 20th in 16:42, and Kayla Guepfer 21st in 16:44.  I thought Violet ran her best race of the year showing great determination in her eyes  Marissa Fellenz ran a strong race placing 23rd in 16:45 and Megan Baumler running her first varsity race of the season placed 27th in 16:59.  This team is off to a solid start and needs to just keep training hard and improving. 

The JV placed 4th out of 9 teams.  Annie Waniger ran a very controlled and aggressive race.  She started off in about 25th at the 500 mark and just kept coming placing 6th overall in a very good time of 17:25 which would have been 40th in the varsity race out of 82 runners. She was followed by Anneliis Sartin-Tarn, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Ella Overholt, and Devin Edge and I thought these young ladies had their best race of the year also.  Good Gutsy kids.