Century's Ruby Ihmels 3-peats with Class A girls cross country win

JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Ruby Ihmels moved to North Dakota already a state cross country champion in Idaho, winning the state competition there as a freshman. The Bismarck Century senior will cap her high school career with four titles after Ihmels earned a three-peat of the North Dakota Class A girls cross country championship Saturday at Parkhurst Campground and Pipestem Reservoir. Ihmels clocked a winning time of 16 minutes, 50 seconds, beating out Williston senior Cambree Moss by over a minute and a half and setting a new Class A girls state meet record in the process. The previous state meet record was Ihmels winning time from last season, a 17:06.9. That mark was a follow-up from her 17:28.1 as a sophomore, which shattered the previous record of Jamestown s Meghan Ford by more than 30 seconds. Ford ran a 17:58.8 in 2020. Century also topped the team leaderboard with 33 points to secure its first team championship since 2014 and second overall. Ihmels attended T