Full 2013 Class 3A 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 3A State cross country meet was packed full of area competitors hailing form the Big Seven and Northeast Kansas League and the competition saw a pair of individual second place finish and two top five team finishes, also.

In the girls competition, defending State Champ Hiawatha Red Hawk, Jordan Puvogel looked to defend her title but came up just under 10 seconds short taking home a strong second place performance with time of 15:57.19 leading the lady Red Hawks to a third place team performance at State. Freshman, Molly Kettler took home the second best Red Hawk performance posting a time of 17:44.07 good for 28^th place. Fellow freshman, McKenna Gilpin followed Kettler up taking 39^th place (17:57.41), while sophomore, Kailey Davis placed 48^th (18:17.36) and Mykah Barnes took home 61^st place (18:40.05). Rounding out the Red hawk State performances was Katie Rosa finishing 74^th (19:14.86) and Jada Rosa at 81^st (19:26.18).

The ACCHS lady Tigers and lady Rams of Pleasant Ridge also competed as teams at State and finished sixth and tenth place out of the 12 teams competing.

For the Tigers they were led by sophomore, Madison Bissell who took home 19^th place running to a time of 17:14.82. Beba Scholz notched the only other top 50 Tiger performance taking home 47^th place with a time 18:16.39. Tiffany Gilmore, Maddison Forbes, Mackenzie Forbes and Caitlyn Fuller followed taking home 54^th, 62^nd, 66^th and 88^th places, respectively with times of 18:24.32, 18:40.17, 18:43.74 and 20:08.69.

The Rams were lead on the day by Hailey Worthington who placed 42^nd with a time of 18:04.81, while Rachel Hattok took home 58^th place (18:36.99) and Syvannah Williams placed 80^th (19:25.08). Also, competing for the Rams was Carly Simonis, Peyton Gould, Skylar Ling and Kristina Silvers taking 82^nd, 84^th, 86^th and DQ, respectively. Simonis posted a time of 19:32.19 for 82^nd, Gould ran to a time of 19:38.47 for 84^th and Ling notched a time of 19:48.01 for 86^th.

Marysville had the only other area girl competing at 3A level in the State competition as sophomore Bryclin Alstrom took home 16^th place with a time of 17:00.80.

On the boys side of competition the Hiawatha Red Hawks took home a fourth place team performance with senior, Tyler Boeckman lead the charge after taking home 18^th place behind a time of 17:58.86. Sophomore, Brandt Houk took home 24^th place as the lone other Red Hawk to notch a top 30 performance posting a time of 18:08.09. Jesse Quinn took home the third best Red Hawk performance placing 41^st (18:42.30), while Brendan Steele ran to a 54^th place finish (19:02.44) and Baxter DeFore placed 57^th (19:03.24). Finishing off Hiawatha’s performances on the day was Beau Oldridge finishing 67^th (19:19.47) and Conner Winters took home 76^th (19:40.54).

Pleasant Ridge, Sabetha, Marysville and Nemaha Valley all had individual boys runners at the State competition and all of them finished in the top 30 on the day.

The best boys area individual performance came from Pleasant Ridge senior, Tony Weber who took home second place with a time of 16:34.48, 10 seconds off of the State title. Marysville Bulldog junior, Joe Smith took home a top 10 finish running his way to a sixth place finish with a time of 17:13.53.

Sabetha sent a pair of runners to the State competition and both Keegan and Corbin Cox finished in the top 30, taking home 23^rd and 26^th place finishes with times of 18:04.40 and 18:18.11, respectively. While Nemaha Valley Raider junior, Colin Lierz took home 30^th place behind a time of 18:27.09.

Overall the Class 3A State cross country competition felt the impact of area runners as they put their stamp on the competition.