NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee High School squads swept to team titles at the WIN cross country meets held at the Negaunee Township Hall trails on Thursday afternoon.

The Miners boys scored a near-perfect 18 points as Westwood had 74 and Ishpeming didn’t field a full team on the five-kilometer (3.1-mile) course for boys and girls.

The WIN acronym stands for the three schools involved in this meet. They also hold WIN competitions in a number of other sports during the school year.

In the girls meet, Negaunee rolled up 31 points to 51 for the Patriots as the Hematites again didn’t have a full team.

Negaunee's Judge Anderson leads in the second lap of the boys race at the WIN high school cross country meets held at the Negaunee Township Hall trails on Thursday. (Photo courtesy Daryl T. Jarvinen)

Despite the lack of a full team, Ishpeming junior Lola Korpi won the girls race by 45 seconds, finishing in 20 minutes, 9 seconds.

Miners senior Endla Harris was runner-up in 20:54, while Westwood junior Laretta Boburka came in third in 22:21.

Hematites sophomore Laynie Korpi was fourth in 23:09 and Negaunee junior Seere Helms-Gleason was fifth in 23:24.

The rest of the top 10 was about a minute to 2 1/2 minutes behind the first five finishers — Westwood junior Baylie LaVigne was sixth in 24:42, Negaunee junior Amara Rasmussen seventh in 24:53, Negaunee’s Emilia Hanninen eighth in 25:05, Negaunee senior Emily Marker ninth in 25:36 and Negaunee sophomore Cheyanne Larson 10th in 26:14.

The Negaunee boys had a 1-2-3-5-7 finish for its dominating victory.

Senior Judge Anderson won that race in 18:15, with senior teammate James Dank runner-up in 18:41 and Miners’ freshman Simon Jaklin third in 18:58.

In addition, Negaunee sophomore Michael Slawinski was fifth in 20:29 and Miners senior Joe McCollum seventh in 21:23.

Fitting between them was Ishpeming sophomore Levi Nicholls in fourth in 20:10 and Westwood junior Patrick Klump sixth in 21:15.

The rest of the top 10 was Ishpeming sophomore Joey Giroux in eighth in 21:33, Negaunee senior Devin Santilli ninth in 21:42 and Negaunee sophomore Caden Steede 10th in 21:47.

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