Community R-6 cross country has earned some hardware.
The boys’ second-place plaque at last Wednesday’s Wellsville Invitational is the first cross country team plaque in school …
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Community R-6 cross country has earned some hardware.
The boys’ second-place plaque at last Wednesday’s Wellsville Invitational is the first cross country team plaque in school history while 10 of 12 Community runners ran personal-best times.
Layton Wright led the effort by earning a 12th-place medal and beating his previous personal-best time by over a minute with a mark of 21:00. Rett Curtis achieved a long time goal of beating 30 minutes with a time of 29:33, Lane Carter ran a personal-best 23:30, Nicholas Henke ran a personal-best 23:39, KaTavyn Wheeler ran a personal-best 26:56, and Clayton Crum finished with a personal-best 26:58.
On the girls side, Gabby Knipfel earned a seventh-place medal with a personal-best time of 30:02, Grace McCoskey earned an eighth-place medal with a personal-best time of 30:45.
Mexico, Centralia compete in loaded field at Gans Creek Classic
Mexico and Centralia got a taste of the state cross country meet in late September.
On Saturday, the schools were just two in the Gans Creek Classic in Columbia at the site of the state cross country meet. Schools were separated into divisions of more than 20 schools.
Mexico was in the blue division and had Andrew Peuster place 26th for the boys with a time of 17:22, and Maggie Ramsey place 28th for the girls with a time of 21:07. Hunter Bickell was right behind Peuster in 27th with a time of 17:23. The boys placed seventh out of 36 schools with 273 points
The Centralia boys were in the gold division and had Nolan Spickert place 32nd with a time of 16:43, Carter Moss was 40th with a 16:49 and Dryst Bostick was 60th with a 17:12. Centralia finished 10th out of 22 schools with 301 points.
The Centralia girls were in the white division, which included Kenedee Moss picking up the school’s best finish of the day with a 14th-place time of 21:06. Katelynn Asbury was 36th with a 22:16.
Missouri Military Academy finishes third at Belle Invitational
Missouri Military Academy was among the three best on Thursday.
Among eight schools in the boys 5K at the Belle Invitational, MMA finished third with 105 points. Jesus Robinson led the Colonels with a 13th-place time of 20:21, Rfred Cordero was 28th with a 22:19, Khas-Erdine Sod-Erdine was 33rd with a 22:35, and Chase Von Savoye was 35th with a 22:43.
