Running, perhaps, its best overall team race yet, the state’s fourth-ranked Class A high school girls’ cross country team — the Murray County Central / Fulda Warriors — dominated their own 9-Team Invitational at the Slayton Country Club last Tuesday, September 24.
On another rather hot and humid day, the Warriors won their fifth team title of the fall with a low score of 24 — 33 points better than second-place Southwest Minnesota Christian / Edgerton’s total of 57.
Leading the victory was junior Morgan Gehl — who claimed her sixth consecutive individual title, having finished first in every one of MCC / F’s meets in 2019. Gehl ran away from the 42-finisher varsity field with a 5,000-meter time of 18:26 — 119 seconds faster than the second-place time of 20:25 run by Marissa Whitehead of Martin County West.
Gehl’s spectacular time was 21 seconds faster than the sixth-place time of 18:47 in the varsity boys’ race over the same 5,000-meter course.
“Morgan was so far in front that we needed a second lead cart to show the way for the rest of the runners,” declared MCC / F head cross country coach Dominick Damm. “She continues to really run strong and smooth.”
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