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2016 Season underway  Print this Weeks Schedule 2016 Meet Schedule Team Handbook (8-04-2016) Mobile AppNews & Announcements09/17/2016 - Sandpoint JV Teams win, Boys Varsity 4th at Hayden Canyon: The Sandpoint Cross Country JV teams took center stage this weekend at the Hayden Canton Invitational. Both JV teams took 1st place in a meet ... read more 09/10/2016 - Boys and Girls place 5th at Farragut Invitational: Timberlake hosted the second annual Farragut Invitational at Scott's Field in Farragut State Park on Saturday, and even with 3 Varsity athletes... read more 09/01/2016 - Sandpoint Girls Win Post Falls Invite, Boys Third: For the first time in over a decade the Sandpoint Cross Country Team started their season at the Post Falls Invite, and they started the year r... read more SHSXC Legends Video (v2)A video of the SHSXC Legends 2015 edition.
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<br /><p>The Sandpoint Cross Country JV teams took center stage this weekend at the Hayden Canton Invitational. Both JV teams took 1st place in a meet out of the 18 teams at the meet. The girls team placed all 5 scoring running in the top 10, led by the 4th place finish of freshman Heather Wallace, who ran a 21:51 over the 5k course for 4th place out of the 78 runners. She was followed by sister Corina Wallace in 7th, Mesa Keating in 8th, Paige Davidson in 9th and Chloe Pierce in 10th. The girls team score was a 33, beating 2nd place Lincoln County by 9. Three more girls beat the team Varsity Qualifying Standard of 23:30, placing 13 girls under the standard so far this year.</p>
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<br /><p>The boys JV was nearly as dominant, winning the meet with a team score of 50, 21 point ahead of 2nd place The Dalles of Oregon. There were 184 runners in the boys race, and the first place Sandpoint finisher was Sloan Woodward in 18th with a time of 18:57. He was followed by Hyrum Hunsaker in 9th, Kyle Almeida in 10th, Garrett Pierce in 11th, and Dutt Rogers in 14th to round out the top 5 scorers. Two more boys dropped under the boys team Varsty Qualifying Standard of 19:30, so there are now 15 boys under the standard for the year.</p>
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<br /><p>The Boys Varsity continued to race well, placing 5th out of the 18 teams at the meet. Fin Lund-Andersen was the highest finisher for Sandpoint, running an impressive time of 16:48 and placing 6th out of the 127 runners in the race. Fin was followed by Clay Rasmussen in 24th place (17:33), Cole Dillon in 27th place (17:35), Reilly Wolfe in 29th (17:43)and Riley McGinnis (18:15)running another strong race for 44th and the last scoring spot. Story Crossett and Gabriel Merithew were 51st and 52nd for the 6th and 7th slots. The Girls Varsity was held out of the race to focus on a hard training week with October approaching.</p>
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<br /><p>Sandpoint will be running again October 1st in Lewiston. Next Friday the Cross Country team will be putting on a Kids Clinic for kids in the school district grades 4-6 at 3:30 at the Sandpoint High School Track.</p>', 'true');){kind=link}
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<br /><p>Timberlake hosted the second annual Farragut Invitational at Scott\'s Field in Farragut State Park on Saturday, and even with 3 Varsity athletes resting for the weekend, Sandpoint had a great meet and showed their depth. There were 13 full teams at the meet, and Sandpoint Boys and Girls Varsity each placed 5th, while both JV teams placed 4th.</p>
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<br /><p>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). Peik Lund-Andersen (18:41) was 47th for the last scoring spot. Ephraim Weisz, who has been a consistent top 5 for the team, was out resting a sprained ankle for the meet. The Boys JV placed 4th due to incredible team pack running. Story Crosset placed 11th out of 150 runner 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.</p>
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<br /><p>The Sandpoint girls also place 5th in the Varsity race, led by Junior Hannah Davidson who placed 15th out of 77 runner with a time of 21:10 to earn meet medalist honors. Also earned 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 girls were competitive with the Boise 5A schools, even with top 5 runners Katherine Kaul and Rainey Woodward out for the meet. The girls JV placed 4th 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.</p>
<br /><p>Sandpoint will be running again next Saturday, September 17th at Hayden Canyon.</p>', 'true');){kind=link}
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<br /><p>For the first time in over a decade the Sandpoint Cross Country Team started their season at the Post Falls Invite, and they started the year right where the left off, with fantastic team running and great results. The Post Falls course at Kiwanis Park is a multi-loop course on dirt trails with multiple challenging hills. The girls varsity took first out of 7 full teams with a score of 44, beating 2nd place Coeur d\'Alene by 15 points. Sandpoint was led by Katherine Kaul, who placed 2nd overall (20:09) behind two time defending State Champion Katherine Ruck from Moscow. Hannah Davidson was 8th, Niah Brass 11th, Dana Beaty 13th and Rainey Woodward 14th, Sharon Rowe 16th and Farli Boden 18th to place all 7 girls in the top third of the race. In the girls JV race, Sandpoint also took first place with 25 points led by Sophomore Chloe Braedt who was third in 24:34. Mesa Keating was 4th, Paige Davidson 6th, Chloe Pierce 7th and Erin Meek 8th to put all 5 scorers in the top 8 out of 47 runners. It was a great way to start off the season.</p>
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<br /><p>The boys Varsity placed third out of 12 teams with Varsity runners Fin Lund-Andersen and Sloan Woodward out sick. Stepping in for Fin in the front spot was Junior Cole Dillon, who ran a smart, tactical race to place 15th place out of 83 runners in 18:14. Teammate Clay Rasmussen was right behind 16th, Reilly Wolfe in 21st, Ephriam Weisz 24th, and Riley McGinnis in 37th to round out the scoring 5. In the boys JV race, the Sandpoint team placed 2nd out of 11 teams with a team score of 68. The JV race was the largest of the day with 107 runners, and the first runner in was Peik Lund-Andersen in 6th place (19:50). Wyatt Hagen was right behind in 7th, Garrett Pierce was 14th, Dutt Rogers 15th and Jacob Jackson was in 30th for the top 5 boys scorers.
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<br /><p>Sandpoint will run their next meet on September 10th at Farragut State Park.</p>', 'true');){kind=link}