Lady Knights first at Highland

By ROB HAMILTON

North­mor won the girls’ meet at last Tuesday’s High­land Invi­ta­tional thanks to being able to put a pack of run­ners in the top 10.

While second-place Fred­er­ick­town claimed the top two places in the race, North­mor had five of the next seven run­ners to wind up win­ning by a 28–37 margin.

Dani Blum took third place in 21:48.5, while Kendall Fout was fourth in 22:49 and Isabelle Dit­ul­lio ran fifth in 23:02. Bri­anna Heminger fol­lowed, tak­ing sev­enth place in 23:55.3. Also, Kayla Duryea was ninth in 24:16.6.

Katie Bur­son fin­ished 13th in 25:49.2 and Kelly Pope ran 15th in 25:54.5 to round out the team’s top seven.

Also, Naomi Heil­man was 35th, Mikki Chap­man took 40th, Kat­lyn Stiver placed 41st and Kyn­dall Williams took 42nd.

The host school took third in the meet, as Lydia Hock­en­berry fin­ished 11th in 25:08.8 and Jena Buch­holz was 14th in 25:53.8.

Kayla Davies was 17th in 26:20, Saman­tha Thomp­son took 18th in 26:24.5, Nic­hole Carter fin­ished 19th in 26:38.9, Angel­ica Pres­ley placed 20th in 26:45.7 and Katie McClung ran 21st in 26:47.8.

Also, Sarah Klugh took 28th, Bethany Porter placed 30th, Kathryn Spear­man claimed 32nd, Adri­ane Swet­land fin­ished 33rd, Bri­anna Dado took 37th and Mikayla Robin­son fin­ished 38th.

Card­ing­ton placed fourth with Shelby Brady plac­ing sixth in 23:31.3 and Jae­lyn Bal­lard claim­ing 12th in 25:40.6.

Sami Ben­nett took 25th in 27:31.9, while McKen­zie Smith ran 26th in 27:38.8 and MaKen­zie Coul­ter took 27th in 28:01.1. Also, Shaina Kern claimed 43rd in 45:47.8.

Fred­er­ick­town took first place in the boys’ meet, with Card­ing­ton plac­ing sec­ond with 62 points and North­mor fin­ish­ing two points behind them.

The Pirates were led by race win­ner Jacob Long, who fin­ished in 18:01.4. Mitch Yake ran fourth in 19:16.3.

Mike Queener was 21st in 22:33.3, while Josh Queener placed 25th in 23:34.4, Jared Gan­de­lot took 26th in 24:33.1 and Matt Queener ran 27th in 25:08.8.

Also, Ian Sny­der claimed 33rd in 28:08.5 and Alex Elam was 35th.

Northmor’s top run­ner was Jacob Hill, who was ninth in 20:01; while Andrew Stiver took 10th in 20:34.9 and Joe Vitte placed 12th in 20:50.9.

Chris Stiver took 17th in 21:36.4, while Clint Crose placed 20th in 22:14.4 and Matthew Kimes fin­ished 29th in 25:39. John Pfis­ter took 30th place in 26:19.8.

Also, Rod­ney Good­man was 31st and Mike Adkins ran 37th.

High­land, who fin­ished fourth in the meet, was led by Logan Ebersole’s second-place fin­ish in 18:21.1.

Josh Irvin ran eighth in 19:48.8, while Kevin Jones was 14th in 21:10.2. Nick Parks was 28th in 25:11.6 and Randy Ray claimed 32nd in 27:42.9 to round out the Scots.

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