Lady Knights, Indians both win invitationals

By ROB HAMILTON

Northmor’s girls’ cross coun­try team took first place in the Blue race at Saturday’s Ontario Invitational.

Both the Knights and Smithville tied with 49 points in the six-team race, but North­mor had the better-placed sixth run­ner to fin­ish in first place.

Dani Blum won the race in 20:11, while Kendall Fout took ninth in 22:38.

Isabelle Dit­ul­lio fin­ished 12th in 22:51, Kayla Duryea placed 15th in 23:20 and Bri Heminger took 19th in 23:41. Kelly Pope placed 23rd in 24:13 and Naomi Heil­man ran 53rd in 28:44.

Also, Jes­sika Clark was 60th and Kate­lynn Stiver placed 69th.

In the boys’ Blue race, North­mor placed eighth, as Jacob Hill was 30th in 19:23 and Joe Vitte took 46th in 20:01.

Andrew Stiver ran 53rd in 20:35, while Chris Stiver fin­ished one place after in 20:38. John Pfis­ter placed 110th in 25:21, Rod­ney Good­man was 119th in 27:50 and Mike Adkins ran 122nd in 31:25.

Gilead Chris­t­ian also was in this race and they took ninth of 11 teams. Caleb Mosher led the way by tak­ing 16th place in 18:31.

Danny Bruce claimed 56th place in 20:40 and Aaron Mar­tin fin­ished 60th in 20:56. Also, Lucas Stan­d­ley was 92nd in 22:35 and Eric Gray took 113th in 25:27.

The Eagles also had one girl com­pete in the Blue race, as Kris­ten Mohre fin­ished 48th in 27:40.

High­land com­peted in the Gold races at the meet, with the girls tak­ing 13th place out of 15 teams.

Jena Buch­holz led the way for the Lady Scots, plac­ing 58th in 24:32. Lydia Hock­en­berry took 75th in 25:18, while Katie McClung ran 87th in 25:41 and Saman­tha Thomp­son was 94th in 25:58.

Katie Davies took 99th in 26:17 and Angel­ica Pres­ley was 100th in 26:19. Sarah Klugh took 125th in 27:32. Also, Bethany Porter was 134th, Bri­anna Dado took 145th and Mikayla Robin­son ran 151st.

The boys’ team took 16th place in their race. Josh Irvin ran 40th in 19:14, while Kevin Jones took 68th place in 20:02.

Also, Nick Parks was 130th in 23:08, Layne Bur­son took 140th in 23:25 and Jonah Maggs was 155th in 26:08.

Lan­caster Invitational

Mount Gilead’s girls were first and their boys’ team was sec­ond at the Lan­caster Invi­ta­tional on Saturday.

The girls took first of 16 teams, as Ray­chel Gress won the race in 20:05. Jenna Ship­man was fifth in 21:01 and Rachel Bush took sev­enth in 21:15.

Bryanna Bolha placed 14th in 21:49, while Taryn Chap­man took 26th in 22:31. Also, Sophia Friesen placed 27th in 22:36 and Kelsey Sny­der got 31st place in 25:12.

In the open race, Ken­zie McKir­gan placed 19th, Emma Weiss was 152nd, Kendra Hart­man took 156th, Hope Hack was 176th and Tay­lor Clark took 216th.

The boys were led by Tyler Beck, who was third in 17:08, as they took sec­ond in a 17-team race. Jason Hea­cock placed 10th in 17:41, while Josh Wood­dell ran 13th in 17:47.

Logan Chap­man took 36th in 18:56, Nic Pomeroy was 46th in 19:04 and Paul Melcher ran 47th in 19:15. Also, Cam­den West placed 61st in 19:59.

In the open race, Tim Williamson fin­ished 26th, Ethan Hat­field ran 31st, Kyle Ciballi placed 34th, Bran­son West was 44th, John Wal­lis took 49th, Ken­ton Picker placed 57th, Nicholas Mid­daugh was 63rd, Michael Lash­ley ran 112th and Wade Hawk claimed 115th.

In the mid­dle school races, the boys’ team placed 24th of 42 squads (second-best among Divi­sion III teams), while the girls were 18th of 34 (also second-best of com­pet­ing D-III squads).

Nick Weiss led the boys, plac­ing 29th in 12:10. Also, Josh Conaway was 111th, Matt Robin­son took 127th, Jason Bolha ran 157th, Jonathon DePhillips got 212th, Tyler Clark ran 239th and Josh Moli­tor was 248th. Also, Anthony De La Cruz ran in the open race.

For the girls, Han­nah Bush took 56th place in 14:02. Darcy Picker ran 101st, Addy Chap­man fin­ished 110th, Dani Har­ter placed 148th and Kayla Barker was 167th.

Card­ing­ton also ran in this meet, with the boys tak­ing eighth place in the Divi­sion III race.

Jacob Long was sec­ond over­all in 16:49, while Mitch Yake placed sev­enth in 17:29. Mike Queener was 40th in 19:01, Josh Queener took 55th in 19:46 and Seth Vaught ran 80th in 21:12.

Also, Jared Gan­de­lot claimed 83rd place in 21:15 and Matt Queener was 108th in 23:13.

In the open race, Clay­ton Cain was 144th, Ian Sny­der placed 162nd and Alex Elam took 172nd.

The girls’ team took 15th place, as Jae­lyn Bal­lard fin­ished 58th in 24:51 and McKen­zie Smith was 68th in 25:16.

Sami Ben­nett ran 69th in 25:20, MaKen­zie Coul­ter was 81st in 26:12 and Shaina Kern placed 109th in 39:41.

The junior high girls’ team was 22nd of 34 squads. Sage Bran­non placed 105th in 15:06, while Caitlyn-Lee Rosch was 123rd and Kyn­dall Spires took 125th. Also, Jor­dan Deskins placed 139th, Cort­ney Chaney took 207th, Hanna Finni­cal placed 235th and Shelby Kyrk was 238th.

In the boys’ open race for junior high run­ners, Quinn Maceyko took sixth in 12:32.8, while Spencer Ben­son ran 181st and Toby Bev­eridge was 202nd.

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