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Sean Fries Concludes Minnesota Prep Career With Record-Setting 14:50.6 Performance; Maddie Gullickson Wins Class 3A Individual Title, Leading No. 7 Wayzata Girls To Fourth Straight Team Title By Keenan Gray of DyeStat For a third consecutive year, the class 3A boys champion at the Minnesota state championships delivered a course-record performance. Following the acts of Robert Mechura at the 2023 and 2024 state meets, Minnetonka senior Sean Fries became the first Minnesota prep to break 15 minutes at the state meet on the 5-kilometer course at the Les Bolstad Golf Course on Saturday in Falcon Heights. Fries improved his runner-up finished last fall by 16 seconds, running 14 minutes, 50.6 seconds to lower Mechura’s course best of 15:03.7. Fries’ victory margin was nearly 34 seconds ahead of Owen Stuwe of Shakopee, who finished second in 15:24.5. The Blaine boys took down favorites Wayzata and Rosemont for the program’s first team title, scoring 77 points. David Meberg finished fourth in 15:34.2 to help propel the Bengals. The No. 7 nationally ranked Wayzata girls claimed a fourth title in a row in 3A, scoring 27 points to best St. Michael-Albertville by 66 points. Maddie Gullickson, in her final cross country race in Minnesota, won her first state individual title in 16:54.3 as part of Wayzata’s dominating team effort, including all five individual scorers finishing in the top 15. Wayzata's performance was sensational and is sure to move the team up in the national rankings. Charlie Loth and the St. Paul Como Park boys swept the individual and team titles in the class 2A boys race. Loth ran a personal best 15:31.1 to hold off Gabe Hallen of Orono by three seconds in the individual race, leading St. Paul Como Park defeating Perham 75-89 for the program’s first team title. Keira Friedrich of St. Peter won the class 2A girls title by a comfortable 19 seconds, running 18:03. Minneapolis Southwest, featuring a fourth-place individual finish by Annika Midness, beat Perham 38-52 for the school’s first team title in cross country. Erik Semling of Cotter/Hope repeated as the class 1A boys champion in 15:19.7. Despite Cotter/Hope taking the first three individual spots, the Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston team proved to be better on the day, scoring 67 points for the program’s first state title. Margaret Duffy of St. John’s Prep broke 18 minutes in the class 1A girls race, winning in a time of 17:55.5 to beat defending champion Audrey Brownell of Staples-Motley by 19 seconds. New London-Spicer and St. Cloud Cathedral each scored 97 points in the team race, but New London-Spicer was awarded the state title with its sixth runner finishing five spots ahead of St. Cloud Cathedral’s. TEAM CHAMPIONS Class 3A – Blaine boys 77 points, Wayzata girls 27 points - RESULTS Class 2A – St. Paul Como Park boys 75 points, Minneapolis Southwest girls 38 points - RESULTS Class 1A - Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston boys 67 points, London-Spicer girls 97 points - RESULTS |
