Sports

South's Wonders, West's Blanchet triumph on Hillside trails

Hunter Wonders and Lydia Blanchet put up the fastest times Saturday at the Lars Spurkland Scramble, a race held in honor of the former high school coach who died this week.

Their triumphs helped their teams win too. South, led by Wonders, topped the boys team standings and West, led by Blanchet, paced the girls. Service was the runnerup in both races.

Wonders enjoyed a big margin of victory in the boys 8-kilometer freestyle race. His time of 18 minutes, 11 seconds put him 20 seconds ahead of runnerup Benjamin Koenig of West Valley.

Blanchet's time of 20:37 gave her a nine-second edge over teammate Molly Gellert, the runnerup.

The race, a sanctioned high school event, was held on the Hillside trails at Service High. It was staged as a replacement for the annual Lynxloppet, the two-day pursuit race that was supposed to be at Kincaid Park but was cancelled because of insufficient snow there.

Coaches scrambled to put on a replacement race Saturday at Hillside, where there is more snow. They named it after Lars Spurkland, the 39-year-old former coach at East and Dimond who died Friday morning.

Lars Spurkland Scramble

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8-kilometer freestyle

Service High

Boys

Team scores

1) South 1:14:38.0, 2) Service 1:16:07.5, 3) West 1:17:02.5, 4) West Valley 1:19:22.4, 5) Colony 1:21:11.8, 6) Dimond 1:22:53.6, 7) Grace Christian 1:23:27.7, 8) Chugiak 1:27:16.2, 9) East 1:29:18.8.

Individual results

1) Wonders, Hunter (Sou) 18:11.9; 2) Koenig, Benjamin (WV) 18:31.4; 3) Knopp, Dawson (Col) 18:36.5; 4) Hoefler, Mathew (Sou) 18:37.4; 5) Schumacher, Gus (Ser) 18:37.8; 6) Balcao, Will (Sou) 18:38.5; 7) Jager, Luke (W) 18:40.1; 8) Tobin, Canyon (Ser) 18:49.7; 9) Truskowski, Conner (Ser) 18:59.0; 10) Fritzel, Trent (GC) 19:05.5; 11) Denton, Kelson (D) 19:06.6; 12) Wolfe, Hamish (Sou)19:10.2; 13) Consenstein, Jack (W) 19:12.9; 14) Bickford, Riley (W) 19:26.8; 15) Koenig, Jonathan (WV) 19:35.0; 16) Egeland, Brett (Sou) 19:38.8; 17) Hull, Andrew (Sou) 19:39.0 South; 18) Bassett, Zach (Ser) 19:41.0; 19) Mans, Will (W) 19:42.7; 20) Sayre, Tristan (WV) 19:44.0; 21) Kilby, Alex (Sou) 19:47.7; 22) Bickford, Ryan (W) 19:53.5; 23) York, Sam (W) 19:58.8; 24) Cvancara, Luke (D) 19:59.3; 25) Maytas, Paul (E) 19:59.5; 26) Peterson-Thompson, Dakota (Col) 20:13.4; 27) Cosgrave, John (GC) 20:19.0; 28) Wiese, Tristan (W) 20:25.2; 29) Wing, Brian (Chu) 20:33.8; 30) Thompson, Hunter (Ser) 20:41.7; 31) Harrison, Nick (Col) 21:09.5; 32) Birch, Garrett (Col) 21:12.4; 33) Darrow, Everett (WV) 21:32.0; 34) Hickey, Conner (E) 21:33.3; 35) Swingle, Finn (WV); 36) Denton, Kaden (D) 21:38.5; 37) Mumford, Ty (GC) 21:41.7; 38) Earnest, Aidan (WV) 21:44.0; 39) Brubaker, Ryan (Ser) 21:49.7; 40) Ginter, Jack (Chu) 21:52.7; 41) Latimer, Charlie (Chu) 21:58.7; 42) Cvancara, Dax (D) 22:09.2; 43) Barber, Micah 22:09.6; 44) Rueter, Gabe 22:13.2 ; 45) Farring, Tim (Col) 22:17.6; 46) Hartley, Morgan (D) 22:18.0; 47) Roach, Joshua (GC) 22:21.5; 48) Nitisaporn, Jonah (D) 22:28.4; 49) Parks, Hoxie (Homer) 22:34.4; 50) Davis, Jacob (Homer) 22:47.5; 51) Stoltz, Parker (WV) 22:49.8; 52) Anderson, James (Chu) 22:51.0; 53) Scholz, Tadhg (Homer) 23:02.1; 54) Wegner, Sergei (Valdez) 23:07.3; 55) Hinrichs, Ari (E) 23:18.3; 56) Haywood, Aden (E) 24:27.7; 57) Isaacson, Ethan (GC) 25:20.7; 58) Montoya, Zach (E) 28:34.6.

Girls

Team scores

1) West 1:26:08.7, 2) Service 1:28:41.5, 3) South 1:29:15.3, 4) East 1:30:38.6, 5) Chugiak 1:33:38.3, 6) Dimond 1:38:52.4, 7) Homer 1:40:54.5, 8) West Valley 1:42:21.7, 9) Colony 1:42:46.4.

Individual results

1) Blanchet, Lydia (W) 20:37.7; 2) Gellert, Molly (W) 20:46.4; 3) Tarbath, Emma (Ser) 21:08.4; 4) Hunt-Smith, Taryn (Ser) 21:36.4; 5) Flynn, Annika (Sou) 21:43.9; 6) Flynn, Morgan (E) 21:48.4; 7) Darnell, Anna (Sou) 21:58.1; 8) tie, York, Magdalen (W) and Amick, Abby (E) 22:06.8; 10) Jager, Ana (E) 22:08.5; 11) Terry, Ryan (Ser) 22:32.2; 12) Fick, Fiona (W) 22:37.8; 13) Bembenek, Irene (Sou) 22:46.6; 14) Grunblatt, Jenni (Sou) 22:46.7; 15) Denton, Kinsey (D) 22:50.1; 16) Booher, Hannah (Chu) 22:52.2; 17) Booher, Heidi (Chu) 22:55.2; 18) Kiekintveld, Naomi (Sou) 22:58.7; 19) Gellert, Carlie (W) 23:12.4; 20) Romey, Sage (Ser) 23:24.5; 21) Jenkins, Greta (Col) 23:28.1; 22) Nelson, Emma (Chu) 23:31.4; 23) Stevens, Kendall (W) 23:48.7; 24) Ditto, Julia 24:00.2; 25) Block, Jordyn (Col) 24:11.7; 26) Cook, Clare (Chu) 24:19.5; 27) Meeds, Maggie (Sou) 24:20.0; 28) Aist, Alisa (Ser) 24:33.6; 29) Ellert, Rachel (H) 24:34.1; 30) Fink, Megan (E) 24:34.9; 31) Wood, Jade (Sou) 24:35.9; 32) Von Imhof, Liesel (D) 24:40.9; 33) Hediger, Jewel (WV) 24:58.3; 34) Cvancara, Ruth (D) 25:01.5; 35) Presler, Peyton (WV) 25:01.8; 36) Daigle, Aspen (H) 25:15.7; 37) Ratzlaff, Zoe (WV) 25:25.3; 38) Wolf, Sara (H) 25:27.8; 39) Olsen, Lis (Col) 25:31.8; 40) Russell, Audrey (H) 25:36.9. 41) Allen, Stephany (Valdez) 25:46.6; 42) Devine, Lauren (Chu) 25:56.8; 43) Norris, Rylee (Valdez) 26:19.3; 44) Carney, Ally (D) 26:19.9; 45) Mueller, Olivia (Chu) 26:30.2; 46) Vantrease Mariah (H) 26:31.7; 47) Reitano, Kelin (WV) 26:56.3; 48) Langmann, Jasmine (D) 27:23.4; 49) Berbig, Cora (D) 27:38.7; 50) Robertson, Julya (Ser) 27:44.8; 51) Robicheaux, Mary (E) 28:01.7 52) Shick, Racheal (E) 28:02.0; 53) Freeman, Sarah (E) 28:23.2; 54) Willson, Roan (WV) 28:39.2; 55) Gottmeier, Brooke (WV) 28:55.4; 56) Meyerhofer, M.E. (Col) 29:34.8.

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