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State boys cross country meet is almost a dead heat
At first glance Saturday morning in the State Class AAA Boys Cross Country Meet at Majestic Oaks Golf Course in Ham Lake, it looked as if Wayzata and Minneapolis Washburn were tied for the championship with 127 points. That’s what the scoreboard said, so everyone connected to the two team were scrambling to see how the tie would be broken. Then came the bad news: A runner from Brainerd had edged Wayzata’s Blake Knutson by three-tenths of a second for 41st place. The discovery left Washburn at 127 points and moved Wayzata’s points to 128. “It would have been nice if we had won,” Wayzata head coach Mark Popp said. “But it is what it is. There are a lot of good runners here, and they all mixed it up. It was harder than ever to make All-State [top 25 in the race].” Wayzata’s pack ran together, which has been the formula for success all season. Rosemount and Maple Grove went out faster than the Trojans did on Saturday. “I thought Rosemount would be tough to catch, but we did catch them,” coach Popp said. Leading the way for Wayzata were juniors Charlie Williams and Thomas Berndt, the 13th and