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Flamin' Angels place fifth

A four-person team representing the Star Herald coverage area, the Flamin' Angels was one of 36 teams to start the race and one of 31 squads to finish the event at Crane Lake on Friday.

Competing in the four-person team division, Luverne's Lisa Mulder, Ashley Gacke and Erica Smith, and Ellsworth's Janelle Jenniges placed fifth in the division with a four-day time of 34:13.15.

Fourteen teams started the race in the four-person division, and 12 finished the event.

Team Geezer, consisting of St. Cloud's Reuben Wagenius and Chris Haukos, Hutchinson's Dan Nissen and Litchfield's Peter Royer, won the division title with a time of 31:33.06. They bested the second-place team by 57 minutes.

The Flamin' Angels placed fifth in their division during three of the days of competition, and seventh on one day.

They were fifth during both bicycle races (from Luverne to St. Cloud, and from St. Cloud to Eveleth with respective 9:49.45 and 8:47.07 efforts, and they were fifth in the run from Eveleth to Cook with a 5:33.52 performance.

Team coach Dave Duffy was concerned with how the team would perform during the 50-mile canoe race on the Vermillion River prior to the race. His concern was realized when the team posted the division's seventh-best time of 10:02.31 during the last day.

The event was good to Minnesota teams as five of the six division winners came from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

A trio from Deephaven won the three-person team title by 1:27 with a time of 32:17.11. David Gigerich, Lindsay Brown and Darren Aschoff formed the team called ZT United.

Winning the two-person team's men's masters division were Savage's Henry O'Donnell and Maple Grove's Mark Skinner. They won the division by 1:30 with a time of 32:45.42. competing under the name of True Grit.

Minneapolis' Tracy Sides and Chicago's Ginder Sides, competing as team B2B Sides' Way, won the women's open division title with a time of 41:21.29, while Cop N Doc, consisting of Crystal's Sandra Gouldson and Minneapolis' Bill Emerson, won the couples open title with a time of 40:05.17. Both teams were the lone entries in their division.

The Tri-Animals kept Minnesota teams from making it a complete sweep by winning the menÕs open division with a time of 32:21.32. Eau Claire's (Wis.) Tim Dusick and Phillips' (Wis.) Jesse Haynes won the division by 3:15.

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