Runners break from the starting line at the start of the girls varsity race Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Rachel Beaner runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Lincoln Woodring held the early lead on the field Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Walker Larson runs past some of the cheering spectators on hand Wednesday for the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Frederick Area’s Laura Sumption, left, runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Rachel Beaner, second from the right, compete Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. At far left is Christian’s Grace Steger. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Frederick Area’s Morgan Sumption competes Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Sumption finished second while Frederick Area won the team title. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Grace Steger runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Lincoln Woodring, center, runs ahead of Faulkton’s Hunter Niederbaumer, left, Warner’s Dillon Browning, far left and the rest of the field Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Warner’s Dillon Browning competes Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Runners in the boys varsity race take off at the start Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Ipswich’s Ashlinn Hartwell runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Shawnteah La Croix competes Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Ella Boekelheide runs to the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Boekelheide won the race. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Frederick Area’s Milo Sumption competes Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Justin Haven, right, leads teammate Nathan Melius, left, as they compete Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Frederick Area’s Johnathan Bretsch, left, runs to the finish line ahead of Northwestern’s Justin Haven, back right, Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Drops of water rain down around Ipswich’s Taylor Thorson after he doused himself with a cup of water provided by a teammate during Wednesday’s Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Faulkton’s Hunter Niederbaumer runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Walker Larson runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Warner’s Dillon Browning runs for the finsh line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Ella Boekelheide, right, leads Frederick Area’s Morgan Sumption, center and the rest of the field as they compete Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Boekelheide and Sumption finished first and second repectively while Frederick Area won the team title with Northwestern finishing second. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Northwestern’s Lincoln Woodring runs for the finish line Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich.Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Rachel Beaner, center, gets sprayed with water as she and teammate Grace Steger run with Frederick Area’s Laura Sumption at Wednesday’s Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Aberdeen Christian’s Walker Larson competes Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021 
Faulkton’s Hunter Niederbaumer, left, closes in on Northwestern’s Lincoln Woodring, right, as they compete Wednesday in the Lake Region Conference Cross Country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich. Niederbaumer went on to win the race with Woodring placing third. Photo by John Davis taken 10/6/2021
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