Paris, Van-Far, Missouri Military Academy and Community R-6 each ran on Gans Creek Cross Country Course on Saturday for the Brian T. Simpson Invite, gaining experience on the state meet course and …
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Paris, Van-Far, Missouri Military Academy and Community R-6 each ran on Gans Creek Cross Country Course on Saturday for the Brian T. Simpson Invite, gaining experience on the state meet course and some even gained some hardware and personal records.
Kinnaman breaks Paris girls record at Gans Creek, Lady Coyotes runner-up
Landen Chapman has already set the Paris boys 5,000-meter record twice this year, and Saturday was Mairyn Kinnaman’s second shot at history.
Kinnaman set the Paris girls record for the second time this season with a 20:51.17 to finish seventh out of 97 runners at the Brian T. Simpson Invite at Gans Creek in Columbia and led the Lady Coyotes to a second-place team finish. The Paris girls finished with 63 points behind Monroe City’s 50 points in the eight-school field, and the boys were sixth out of 20 schools with 227 points.
After Kinnaman, Alexandra Tullius was ninth with a 21:28, Ava Crain was 20th with a 22:28, Kaylee Johnson was 25th with a 23:26, and Midori Williams was 45th with 25:05.
Chapman led the boys with a ninth-place time of 17:40 out of 165 runners, David Elzea was 52nd with a 19:34, Hayden DeOrnellas was 73rd with a 20:16 and Owen Buie was 77th with a 20:20.
Childs, Hopke lead Van-Far at Brian T Simpson Invite
The handful of Van-Far runners that ran at Gans Creek on Saturday had a solid showing.
Three of the Van-Far runners that competed at the Brian T. Simpson Invite in Columbia finished in the top 50 of their respective races. Erin Childs finished the highest in 34th out of 97 girls with a time of 24:22, and Garrett Hopke was 37th out of 165 boys with a 18:45.
Khloe Wallace was 43rd in the girls race with a 25:00.72, and Richard Hayden was 131st for the boys with a 22:27.
Quiroga leads Missouri Military Academy 15th place at Simpson Invite
Missouri Military Academy had four runners finish within the top 100 on Saturday.
There were 165 runners in the boys 5,000 meters at the Brian T. Simpson Invite at Gans Creek in Columbia. Gerardo Quiroga had the best MMA finish in 26th place with a time of 18:25, followed by Alexander Nikas’ 86th-place 20:51, Jesus Robinson’s 98th-place 21:07 and Michael Pfeifer’s 100th-place 21:10. The Colonels finished 15th out of 20 schools with 332 points.
Community R-6 has week of personal bests
The four Community R-6 runners finished near the bottom of the massive Brian T. Simpson Invite field on Saturday but had a successful week.
At Gans Creek Cross Country course in Columbia, Evelyn Scott and Grace McCoskey finished 87th and 92nd out of 97 runners in the girls 5,000 meters, but each ran new personal-best times. Scott beat hers by two minutes with a time of 30:13 and McCoskey bested hers by one and a half minutes with a 31:35.
Nicholas Henke finished 151st out of 165 runners in the boys 5,000 meters with a personal-best 24:59, which is better than his previous time by almost two minutes. Rett Curtis finished 164th with a 32:48, which just missed his personal-best time of 32:19 set on Tuesday at the Hermann Invitational.
