The Wildcats won three of four races and placed multiple skiers in the top five in each race.

In the women’s five-kilometer freestyle race with 101 competitors on Saturday, sophomore Nadine Matter led NMU with a runner-up finish in 16 minutes, 24.7 seconds. Sophomore teammate Katerina Hyncicova was a second behind her in third in 16:25.7.

Northern freshman Malin Boerjesjoe was fifth in 16:31.2, freshman teammate Molly Miller seventh in 16:46.7, freshman Hilde Eide 10th in 16:50.6 and sophomore Savanna Fassio 12th in 17:31.1.

NMU junior Kjetil Baanerud won the men’s freestyle race with 98 racers in 28:04.3, while senior teammate Mathias Aas-Rolid was just barely more than a second behind as runner-up in 28:05.5.

Hilde Eide

Freshman Tobias Moosmann was the next Northern skier to finish, though no place was available, in 29:43.3, with NMU freshman Maurus Grond 14th in 29:53.9, junior Daniel Streinz, no place available, in 29:55.0 and junior Xavier Mansfield 21st in 30:18.6.

On Sunday in the women’s 15K classic, the Wildcats claimed the top three spots with racers less than a second and a half apart. Eide won in 51:49.2, Miller second in 51:49.4 and Boerjesjoe third in 51:50.6.

Matter was seventh in 52:24.8 and Hyncicova eighth in 52:27.7.

For the men in their 20K classic with 32 competitors, Aas-Rolid won in 58:17.0, Streinz was fourth in 59:46.6, Moosmann fifth in 59:52.1, Grond 11th in 1:01:54, freshman Matt Bourne 13th in 1:02:18.9 and Mansfield 23rd in 1:07:09.5.

The Wildcats will head out of state again this weekend in Cable, Wisconsin, at the Birkie Start Trailhead for the Michigan Tech CXC Cup/CCSA Qualifier.

Mathias Aas-Rolid

Information compiled by Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee. His email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.