Lady Knights win own invitational

By ROB HAMILTON

Northmor’s girls claimed first place at their own invi­ta­tional last Mon­day, fin­ish­ing with 38 points to Pleasant’s 45 in the seven-team invitational.

Dani Blum won the race for the Knights, fin­ish­ing in 19:43.91. She was fol­lowed by Kendall Fout, who took fifth in 21:46.39. Bri­anna Heminger was sev­enth in 22:30.30 and Isabelle Dit­ul­lio placed ninth in 22:59.22 to also be in the top 10.

Kelly Pope claimed 16th in 24:08.71, while Kayla Duryea was 20th in 24:29.55 and Katie Bur­son placed 39th in 26:48.7.

Also, Jes­sika Clark fin­ished 48th, Saman­tha High was 54th, Naomi Heil­man placed 56th, Mikki Chap­man was 68th, Kat­lyn Stiver ran 70th and Kyn­dall Williams took 76th.

High­land placed fifth in the meet behind Lydia Hockenberry’s 17th-place fin­ish in 24:10.53. Kayla Davies placed 23rd in 24:58.42 and Angel­ica Pres­ley claimed 26th in 25:40.86.

Katie McClung ran 28th in 25:49.24, while Jena Buch­holz was 29th in 25:10.1. Nic­hole Carter placed 33rd in 26:04.45 and Saman­tha Thomp­son took 36th in 26:17.02.

Also, Katie Davies was 51st, Kathryn Spear­man fin­ished 52nd, Bethany Porter placed 55th, Bri­anna Dado took 61st, Adri­ane Swet­land was 62nd and Brit­tany Stevens ran 73rd.

Plac­ing sixth was Card­ing­ton. Shelby Brady took 11th place in 23:22.33 to lead the team. Jae­lyn Bal­lard ran 25th in 25:36.77 and McKen­zie Smith was 32nd in 25:55.63.

Sami Ben­nett ran 44th in 27:36.65 and MaKen­zie Coul­ter placed 45th in 27:46.59 to round out the Pirate runners.

Fred­er­ick­town won the boys’ race with 40 points. High­land scored 97 to place third in the meet and tops among Mor­row County teams.

Logan Eber­sole won the race for the Scots, tak­ing first in 17:56.72. Devin John­son placed 13th in 19:34.94 and Josh Irvin was 15th in 19:43.73.

Kevin Jones was 38th in 21:47.17 and Layne Bur­son placed 40th in 22:13.99. Nick Parks ran 62nd in 26:03.86, while Jonah Maggs placed 69th in 27:38.5. Also, Andrew Jack­son was 75th.

Card­ing­ton placed fourth in the meet as Jacob Long took sec­ond place in 17:57.75, while Mitch Yake claimed fourth in 18:04.38. Mike Queener ran 41st in 22:15.15, Josh Queener took 44th in 22:20.41 and Jared Gan­de­lot ran 45th in 22:43.68.

Matt Queener placed 61st in 25:37.57, while Alex Elam took 67th in 26:38.01. Also, Ian Sny­der was 73rd.

North­mor placed fifth in the meet. Joe Vitte was 14th in 19:40.58 and Jacob Hill fin­ished 17th in 20:14.82. Clint Crose placed 35th in 21:39.02, while Chris Stiver ran 36th in 21:43.51.

Matthew Kimes placed 64th in 26:23.68, Rod­ney Good­man ran 66th in 26:37.79 and John Pfis­ter took 72nd in 28:32.78.

Gilead Chris­t­ian came with four run­ners to fall just short of field­ing a full team. Caleb Mosher led the Eagles by plac­ing sev­enth in 18:41.67, while Aaron Mar­tin was 26th in 20:52.02.

Also, Lucas Stan­d­ley ran 59th in 24:24.16 and Eric Grey took 74th in 29:20.54.

Mount Gilead took sec­ond place in the mid­dle school boys’ race, while High­land was fourth and North­mor placed fifth.

The Indi­ans were led by Nick Weiss, who placed sixth in 13:32.05. Jason Bolha ran sev­enth, Matt Robin­son took 12th, Josh Conaway placed 16th, Jonathan DePhillips ran 32nd, Tyler Clark was 36th and Josh Moli­tor ran 48th.

For High­land, Chris­t­ian Buch­holz placed 10th in 14:05.1. Also, Jacob Serio took 26th, Joel Adkins placed 28th, Jacob Smith took 34th, Tyler Bowens fin­ished 38th, Jud­son Thomp­son was 54th and Alex Pres­ley ran 55th.

North­mor was paced by A.J. White, who was fourth over­all in 13:14.85. Ethan Chap­man fin­ished 40th, Manny Heil­man took 43rd, Sebas­t­ian Lopez fin­ished 51st and Kyle Ditty was 52nd.

Card­ing­ton, who didn’t have a full team, got a third-place fin­ish in 13:12.01 from Quinn Maceyko. Caleb White placed 17th and Spencer Ben­son ran 37th.

Also not hav­ing a full team was Gilead Chris­t­ian. For them, Derek Good­man placed 13th in 14:31.14, Justin Jones was 19th, Kyle Mat­tingly ran 33rd and Seth But­ter­field placed 41st.

In the girls’ mid­dle school race, North­mor fin­ished sec­ond. Kris­ten Duryea took 10th in 15:38.11, while Amanda Dykiel fin­ished 12th, Kar­alee Pat­ter­son ran 13th, Brook­lyn Mayes placed 16th, Racheal Mor­ri­son ran 18th, Syd­ney Jen­nette took 24th, Selena Cortez placed 29th, Vivi­enne Cutrupi placed 37th, Sara Drumm ran 38th, Alyssa Pearce was 40th, Rayanna Loyer got 41st, Sarah Dud­ley placed 44th, Han­nah Quibell was 52nd, Emily Mangette ran 58th, Adria Houghtby took 60th and Caitlin Adkins was 67th.

Fin­ish­ing third was High­land, as Laura Spear­man was fifth in 15:15.22 and Sophia Thomp­son placed sixth. Meg Mitchell was 14th, Jenna Brown ran 39th, Olivia Longhenry took 65th and Madi­son Chaf­fee was 66th.

Fourth place went to Mount Gilead, who was led by Han­nah Bush’s sec­ond place fin­ish in 14:30.13. Darcy Picker ran 17th and Dani Har­ter claimed 19th. Also, Addy Chap­man got 36th and Kayla Barker fin­ished 47th.

Tak­ing sev­enth was Cardington’s team, as Sage Bran­non was 21st in 16:34.6. Cait­lyn Lee-Rosch fin­ished 35th, Jor­dan Deskins was 48th, Kyn­dall Spires ran 53rd and Shelby Kyrk placed 63rd.

Gilead Chris­t­ian had one run­ner com­pete, as Lind­sey Millinger took 26th in 17:11.61.

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