Lake Placid’s Clara Boutelle, left, and Harley Cohen race in a meet at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sept. 19. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid cross country team held its first home meet of the season at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Tuesday. Despite cold and rainy weather, the Blue Bomber runners faired well with the girls sweeping its meet. The boys split.

Lake Placid head coach Mel Frazer said this is the type of weather her team likes.

“Other teams not so much, but Lake Placid kids … they like it,” she said.

The Blue Bomber girls topped the Beekmantown Eagles 23-32 and the AuSable Valley Patriots 15-50. On the boys side, Lake Placid scored better than the Patriots, winning 21-36, but fell to the Eagles 23-36.

Lake Placid’s Kai McKinnon took the top spot in the girls race, finishing with a time of 22 minutes, 34 seconds. McKinnon was followed by Beekmantown’s Lexie Rostak (24:32) and Olivia Drowne (25:42).

Lake Placid’s Jesse Carlson competes in the boys race on Sept. 19. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

“The girls ran nice and tight,” Frazer said. “Kai was up ahead, but my two, three four and five were nice and tight, which is important for good scoring.”

After the two Beekmantown runners crossed the finish line, Lake Placid’s final four girls finished starting with Holly Erenstone in 26:54, Clara Boutelle in 27:37, Jenna Fay in 27:39 and Harley Cohen in 27:43.

After finishing as the runner-up in last week’s meet in Saranac Lake, the Blue Bombers’ Aidan Fay claimed first in the boys’ race in a time of 18:11.

“Aidan ran smarter this week,” Frazer said. “He let some of the other kids do the pulling, which obviously benefited him.”

When the race started, Fay ran at his own pace, allowing three other runners to take the lead. On the second lap, Fay passed all three runners for the win.

Beekmantown’s Jon Slick (18:36) finished in second and his teammate Nolan Lairdman (18:43). AuSable Valley’s top runner was Kelton Dupuis placing fourth in 19:17. Lake Placid’s Colin Francis was fifth in 19:43.

The Blue Bombers’ Ethan Cash (20:59) finished in ninth place in the boys race. Cash’s teammates Colton Kondrat (23:53) finished in 15th out of 34 boys runners and Jim Gugliemi (24:29) was 17th.

The Lake Placid cross country team will race again on Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. at the McComb State Park in Peru. The Blue Bomber boys are currently 4-4, while the girls are 3-4.

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Individual Results

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Boys

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Aidan Fay (LP), 18:11; J. Slick (BT), 18:36; N. Lairdman (BT), 18:43; K. Dupuis (AV), 19:17; Colin Francis (LP), 19:43; S. Page (BT), 20:10; M. Page (BT), 20:43; H. Miller-Whipple (BT), 20:55; Ethan Cash (LP), 20:59; A. Semeraro (AV), 21:24; L. Strickland (BT), 21:50; H. Chavez (MBV), 22:25; M. Goodwin (BT), 23:43; E. Hoffman (BT), 23:51; Colton Kondrat (LP), 23:53; P. Rabideau (BT), 24:11; Jim Gugliemi (LP), 24:29; A. Mulvey (AV), 24:37; O. Pray (AV), 24:46; Sean Roth (LP), 24:49; M. Thomas (BT), 25:43; R. Bell-Carter (BT), 25:43; Jesse Carlson (LP), 26:17; C. Horton (BT), 26:21; C. Recor (BT), 26:55; A. Yelle (BT), 27:00; L. Dearborn (BT), 28:48; Robert Bowen (LP), 30:54; Calvin Branchaud (LP), 31:36; M. Morin (MBV), 31:41; T. Fisher (MBV), 31:49; M. Fountain (BT), 33:13; A. Swetson (AV), 34:30; K. Smith (MBV), 53:54.

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Girls

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Kai McKinnon (LP), 22:34; L. Rostak (BT), 24:32; O. Drowne (BT), 25:42; Holly Erenstone (LP), 26:54; Clara Boutelle (LP), 27:37; Jenna Fay (LP), 27:39; Harley Cohen (LP), 27:43; C. Benware (BT), 28:01; S. Welch (BT), 28:03; H. Porter (BT), 28:06; E. Pelkey (AV), 28:39; Karissa (MBV), 29:17; O. Burin (BT), 30:39; A. Gravat (AV), 31:20; R. Coupal (BT), 31:35; K. Jewell (BT), 31:35; L. Tybndis (MBV), 31:43; A. Cota (MBV) 31:53; J. Robinson (BT), 32:22; K. Warren (BT), 32:37; S. Rey-Winner (BT), 35:38; M. Perry (AV), 35:56; K. Bishop (BT), 36:39; J. Hart (AV), 44:14.