CARSON CITY — The Bear Lake cross country team ran to a pair of top-10 finishes at the annual Don Baese Carson City-Crystal Invitational on Saturday.

The Laker girls (151) placed sixth of 12 teams while the boys (213) placed eighth of 15 in their division.

“I thought the kids did awesome,” Bear Lake coach Eric Ross said. “They had quite a hard week of workouts and I’m not sure if I was expecting them to perform as well as they did. There was a lot of (personal records) for both the boys and girls.

“It was a pretty good day for everybody. I was really, really happy with the way they performed. It just shows that they are getting stronger.”

Bear Lake senior Jaylee Brown led the girls team with 23rd place in the time of 21.29.8. Brown was followed by teammates McKaya Groenwald (25th, 21:35.0), Keena Gilbert (27th, 21:50.9), Kelly Babcock (36th, 22:22.4), Alycia Peterson (48th, 23:21.1), Meredith Hengy (56th, 23:45.7) and Alyson Fink (74th, 25:18.8).

Senior Tyler Groenwald paced the Laker boys with a 22nd place in the time of 17:44.2. Groenwald was followed by teammates John Girven (30th, 18:09.3), Shane Peterson (50th, 19:03.2), Jared Bair (57th, 19:25.2), Kyle Nettler (67th, 19:42.6), Alex Ringel (73rd, 20:03.6) and Stephen Verrett (77th, 20:15.2).

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