City High Places Eighth at Class 4A State Cross Country Meet
Ryan Murken
Your Prep Sports
FORT DODGE – Few teams can boast the state meet resume that City High has built over the past several decades.
The Little Hawks added on to that resume again on Saturday.
Making its sixth consecutive state meet appearance City High posted its fourth straight top-eight finish placing eighth at the Class 4A state meet at Lakeside Golf Course in Fort Dodge.
City High finished with 225 points, one point in front of ninth-place Davenport Central and 16 points in front of Waukee.
Cedar Falls won the 4A team title with 96 points to finish five points in front of runner-up Ankeny Centennial.
Waukee Northwest was third with 102 points and Pleasant Valley was fourth with 103 as the top four teams in 4A were separated by just seven points.
City High was led by eighth-grader Laine Barnes who finished 26th overall in a time of 18:57.4 in her state meet debut.
Senior Grace Hamann capped a stellar prep career with a 33rd place finish in a time of 19:08.4.
A four-time state qualifier Hamann finished in the top 33 at state in each of her final appearances in Fort Dodge.
Freshman Mari Bechtel finished 44th in a time of 19:23 while freshman Anna Fischer finished 73rd in a time of 19:49.5.
Junior Calissa Fruin 20:01.2 was 80th in Lucy Sherburne finished 83rd in 20:09.5 and Madeline Fischer placed 98th in 20:29.6.
Liberty High freshman McKenzie VeDepo finished 61st in her debut at the state meet in a time of 19:37.9.
West High sophomores Adrienne Hodge and Ava Twait both moved up in their second consecutive state meet appearances.
Hodge was 96th last season as a freshman but climbed all the way to 52nd on Saturday in a time of 19:31 which was more than 40 seconds faster than her time from a year ago.
Twait was 84th last season and finished 70th on Saturday in 19:59.9.
Class 4A State Meet
At Lakeside Golf Course
Team scores – 1. Cedar Falls 96; 2. Ankeny Centennial 101; 3. Waukee Northwest 102; 4. Pleasant Valley 103; 5. Johnston 159; 6. West Des Moines Valley 208; 7. West Des Moines Dowling 218; 8. City High 225; 9. Davenport Central 226; 10. Waukee 241; 11. Linn-Mar 249; 12. Norwalk 272; 13. Cedar Rapids Prairie 286; 14. Dallas Center-Grimes 288; 15. Western Dubuque 346
Individual medalists – 1. Charlee Gall (Cedar Falls) 17:13; 2. Maddie Millage (Pleasant Valley) 17:30; 3. Emmy Stubbendeck (Waukee Northwest) 17:33.6; 4. Giana McCombs (Pleasant Valley) 17:46.7; 5. Presley Moeller (Davenport Central) 17:52.6; 6. Emma Weih (West Des Moines Valley) 18:00.8; 7. Hailey Kozloski (Linn-Mar) 18:05.3; 8. Isabel Spradling (Des Moines Roosevelt) 18:08.9; 9. Joley Sullivan (Davenport Central) 18:10.7; 10. Natalie Cogdill (Ankeny Centennial) 18:13.1; 11. Emma Stanley (Ames) 18:19.5; 12. Emerly McNally (Cedar Falls) 18:19.8; 13. Rebecca Flick (Ankeny Centennial) 18:27.6; 14. Ellie Blevins (Ankeny Centennial) 18:35.9; 15. Avery Driscoll (Waukee) 18:40.6
City High (225) – 26. Laine Barnes 18:57.4; 33. Grace Hamann 19:08.4; 44. Mari Bechtel 19:23; 73. Anna Fischer 19:49.5; 80. Calissa Fruin 20:01.2; 83. Lucy Sherburne 20:09.5; 98. Madeline Fischer 20:29.6
West High – 52. Adrienne Hodge 19:31; 70. Ava Twait 19:47.6
Liberty High – 61. McKenzie VeDepo 19:37.9
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