Full 2013 Class 2A State Cross Country Results -- (Boys -- click here) (Girls -- click here)

For the final time this season runners ready the words “Ready, take your marks” and the pistol fire as the State competition’s for cross country commenced over the weekend across the State of Kansas.

Class 2A competition featured teams from the Twin Valley League and Northeast Kansas League from the area and saw four top 30 performances between the girls and boys competitions.

On the boys side three area teams competed and finished sixth, eighth and tenth out of 12 teams, as Washington County, Jefferson County North and Onaga notched those team performances.

The top area 2A performance came at the hands of Washington County Tiger junior, Dylan Hodgson who notched a second place performance posting a time of 16:51.52. His teammate, Eric Miller took home the second best Tiger performance finishing 39^th place (19:03.08), while Jefferson Simmons took home 55^th (19:34.24) and Kyle McGatlin was right behind him at 56^th (19:35.90). Finishing out the team performances for the Tigers were Tristan Miller who took 69^th (20:06.27) and Martin Walter placed 94^th (21:51.74).

JCN Charger boys who took eight as a team saw Devon Wilson take home an 11^th place finish with a time of 17:44.11, just under three seconds off of a top 10 finish at State. Bryson Weishaar took home 41^st for the Chargers (19:05.85) finishing as the only other Charger in the top 50. Ted Sharp notched a 60^th place finish (19:47.56), Tyler Nolting placed 77^th (20:36.21), Spencer Hubbard placed 79^th (20:41.18), Ty Brickell ran to 83^rd (21:01.27) and Thomas Steichen followed in 84^th (21:05.03).

The Onaga Buffalo boys also competed as a team and placed tenth as sophomore, Michael Eisenbarth lead the way placing 43^rd on the day with a time of 19:06.77. Fellow sophomore, Jackson Glessner had the second best Buffalo performance with a 66^th place (19:58.70), while Luke Marten crossed the finish line shortly their after in 68^th place (20:01.08). Finishing off the Buffalo performances on the day was: James Johnson who placed 85^th (21:06.61), Wade Minihan took home 89^th (21:33.10), Jonathan Fairbanks placed 91^st (21:35.16) and Blake Wesley finished 101^st (25:31.72).

Only one other boy form the area competed and that was McLouth Bulldog, Ryan Bristol who raced his way to a 72^nd place finish with a time of 20:14.33.

On the girls side it was the Lady Chargers of JCN notching a seventh place team performance and they were led by Carissa McAfee who placed 18^th behind a time of 17:08.50. Her teammate, Laramie Leakey finished right outside the top 30, placing 31^st with a time of 17:38.60. Julie Schrick notched 53^rd place (18:32.92) for the Chargers, while Abbie Weishaar placed 66^th (19:21.04), Mkayla Bertels took home 81^st (20:44.57), Molly Bassette ran to a 91^st place (22:08.51) and Maggie Sharp placed 93^rd (22:32.77).

Jackson Heights Cobra junior, Kaitlynn Little ran her way to a 30^th place performance posting a time of 17:35.80. While, Onaga Buffalo freshman, Maggie Revell and Alexis VanDonge placed 39^th and 51^st posting times of 18:02.19 and 18:31.23, respectively.

The season wrapped up with solid performances by the area teams competing in Class 2A State cross country competition.