Set personal record and dropped 43 seconds from 2010 time at section meet
Farmington, fielding one of the younger lineups in the field, finished 14th among 16 teams at the Section 1AA Championships held Thursday, Oct. 27, at Brooktree Golf Club in Owatonna.
Lakeville South literally ran away with the title, out-pointing runner-up Lakeville North 37-100. Both schools move on to the state finals slated for St. Olaf College on Saturday.
Dover-Eyota/St. Charles ranked third with 169 points, followed by Austin 175, Rochester Century 186, Owatonna 198, Albert Lea 211, New Prague 214, Northfield 214, Red Wing 217, Rochester John Marshall 275, Hastings 284, Rochester Mayo 286, Farmington 289, Winona 379 and Faribault 409.
Freshman Sofia Chadwick paced the Farmington effort with a 27th place finish in a clocking of 15:39.8 over the 4000-meter course. Sophomore Maricia Pachecho (32nd in 15:43.8) and junior Maria Kiminski (42nd in 15:50.7) were right on her heels.
Freshman Alexis Johnson (92nd; 17:01.4); freshman Sarah Cummings (96th; 17:09.1); freshman Victoria Jacoby (98th; 17:11.6) and junior Ashley Durbin (109th; 18:20.3) rounded out the Tiger varsity scorecard.
"Sofia (Chadwick) ran an amazing section race," coach Heidi Revels said. "She took 1:11 off her time from last year and missed a personal record by two seconds.
"Maricia (Pacheco) set a new personal record by three seconds and Maria (Kiminski) not only set a new personal best but also beat last year's time by 43 seconds."
Revels said that the future looks bright for her young squad but it has some hard work to do between now and the start of the 2012 fall season.
"We need to continue to close the gap between our third and fourth runners and then do the same for the fourth through seventh girls," Revels said. "This team has the potential to do so much more and coach Lippold (Lisa) and I will continue to brainstorm on ways to work on year-long training for our runners."
