AURORA- North Woods distance runner Alex Burckhardt proved that youth is no obstacle to success last week, as the Grizzlies’ eighth-grader, running with the South Ridge Panthers, nailed down a …
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David Colburn
CHISHOLM- Grizzlies runner Joey Lakoskey scored double relay wins for the South Ridge/North Woods/Cherry track team at the Chisholm Blue Streaks invitational last Thursday in Chisholm.
Lakoskey was a member of the winning 4x200 relay with a time of 1:58, and she also ran with the winning 4x100 relay team that posted a time of 56.8 seconds.
Zuly Roach ran 34.18 in the 200 meters to finish fourth, and she placed eighth in the 800 with a time of 3:33.19.
Zoe Trip, Emily Trip, and Cooper Antikainen were all entered in the 100 meters but did not have times listed in the official results. Antikainen also was entered in the 200 but had no recorded time.
David Colburn
AURORA- Three North Woods athletes competing in the colors of the South Ridge Panthers took part in a quadrangular track meet on Thursday, April 29 at the Mesabi East sports complex.
Senior sprinter Joey Lakoskey had a hand in eight of the 56 points scored by the combined South Ridge/North Woods/Cherry girls squad. Lakoskey’s raced to a fourth-place finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.23 seconds, edged out of third by barely a tenth of a second by Hibbing’s Brynn Babich.
Lakoskey ran a strong third leg for the Panthers’ second-place 4x100 relay team, which clocked a time of 55.13 seconds. Other relay members included Kenna Ridge, Sophie Johnson, and Jaden Ellefson.