Posted: 2/12/03

Moen lone Ranger to reach state in alpine

Berk Brown
Sports Editor

Ryan Moen will make his second straight trip to the alpine state meet while a teammate missed making the trip by less than a second.

Moen placed seventh individually at the Section 7 meet at Biwabik last week to qualify for this weekís state meet. His time for two combined races was 1:13:42.

Teammate Jason Higgins narrowly missed a top-10 finish and trip to state. He finished 12th in 1:15.44. The 10th-place finisher had a time of 1:14.61.

As a team, the Forest Lake boys placed fifth out of 16 teams with a score of 244. Duluth East (307) and Chisago Lakes (299) finished first and second, respectively.

Chad Bjorklund had the third-best performance for the Rangers, finishing 32nd in 1:23.09. Chris Muske was 50th in 1:31.08 while Mark Grundtner was 81st in 2:01.36.

In the girls race, the Rangers finished fifth as a team with a score of 172.

Duluth East (274) and Chisago Lakes (246) finished first and second, respectively.
Junior Rachel Kissner led the Rangers with a 23rd-place finish in a time of 1:28.05.
Sophomore Amanda Connelly was 30th in 1:10.19 while freshman Becky Keller placed 36th in 1:32.63.

Junior Katy Hallberg was 39th for the Rangers in 1:33.47 while seventh-grader Carly Bass was 52nd in 1:39.98 and sophomore Kelly Haglund was 75th in 2:31.30.

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