Lady Indians take first place in own invitational

By ROB HAMILTON

The Mount Gilead girls’ cross coun­try team claimed the team title at their own invi­ta­tional, held Saturday.

In the four-team meet, Mount Gilead scored 24 points to edge Colum­bus Acad­emy by seven. River View and Card­ing­ton followed.

Bryanna Bolha paced the Lady Indi­ans by fin­ish­ing sec­ond in 20:43.47. Ray­chel Gress fol­lowed in third place with a time of 20:44.84. Jenna Ship­man fol­lowed in fifth place in 20:55.17 and Rachel Bush was sixth in 21:01.65.

Taryn Chap­man placed 11th in 21:46.59, while Maken­zie McKir­gan ran 16th in 22:26.6 and Sophia Friesen took 17th in 22:39.15.

Also, Emma Weiss was 41st, Lexis Hin­kle fin­ished 44th, Kendra Hart­man ran 46th and Tay­lor Clark placed 50th.

For the fourth-place Pirates, McKen­zie Smith placed 18th in 23:23.58 and Jae­lyn Bal­lard claimed 21st in 23:53.2.

Sami Ben­nett took 29th in 25:09.37, while MaKen­zie Coul­ter took 38th in 26:18.87 and Shaina Kern placed 55th in 37:25.

In the boys’ race, Mount Gilead’s score of 47 was sec­ond to River View’s 43, as the Indi­ans took sec­ond place.

Tyler Beck placed third in 17:09.27 to lead the Indi­ans, while Jason Hea­cock ran fifth in 17:38.15. Josh Wood­dell claimed 10th in 18:03.36 and Nic Pomeroy fin­ished 14th in 18:46.87.

Grant Picker was 17th in 19:00.34, while Kyle Ciballi took 18th in 19:02.76. Round­ing out the var­sity was John Wal­lis, who fin­ished 24th in 19:12.94.

Also, Ethan Hat­field was 27th, Cam­den West took 31st, Tim Williamson ran 32nd, Logan Chap­man placed 34th, Ken­ton Picker was 35th, Bran­son West was 40th, Nicholas Mid­daugh ran 41st, Michael Lash­ley took 52nd and Wade Hawk was 54th.

For the Card­ing­ton boys, who took fourth of five teams, Jacob Long fin­ished sec­ond over­all in 16:57.9 to lead the team. Mitch Yake placed eighth in 17:59.89 and Mike Queener was 13th in 18:34.95.

Josh Queener took 28th in 19:18.08, while Seith Vaught was 38th in 20:13.71 and Jared Gan­de­lot fin­ished 39th in 20:15.5. Matt Queener was 51st in 21:35.66.

Also, Alex Elam was 67th, Clay­ton Cain took 68th and Ian Sny­der ran 70th.

River View won both mid­dle school races, while Mount Gilead took sec­ond and Card­ing­ton was third.

In the boys’ race, Mount Gilead was led by Jason Bolha, who was fourth in 12:50.62. Matt Robin­son was ninth, Josh Conaway took 10th, Jonathon DePhillips ran 19th, Tyler Clark took 21st and Josh Moli­tor was 24th.

For Card­ing­ton, Quinn Maceyko placed third in 12:30.83. Caleb White was 16th, Spencer Ben­son took 18th, Dal­las Crum took 20th, Ethan Racer placed 22nd and Toby Bev­eridge claimed 26th.

Mount Gilead’s girls were paced by Han­nah Bush, who took sec­ond place in 14:20.18. Addy Chap­man fin­ished ninth, Darcy Picker took 10th, Kayla Barker was 13th and Dani Har­ter ran 15th.

The mid­dle school Pirates had Jor­dan Deskins fin­ish fifth in 14:44.59, while Kyn­dall Spires fin­ished sixth, Sage Bran­non was eighth, Cait­lyn Lee-Rosch placed 14th, Cort­ney Chaney took 19th, Han­nah Fini­cal was 25th and Shelby Kyrk ran 26th.

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