On Saturday September 25, the Lady Hornet Cross Country team traveled to the Webster County Invitational with the goal of winning for the third consecutive year. The girls exceeded this goal by not only winning, but by cutting the second place team’s score in half. Drema Johnson, with her first varsity win ever, had a time of 20:54 (personal best), Sydney Young placed second with 21:06, Kirsten Johnson fourth with 21:40, Kensey Estes eleventh with 23:06, and Kelsey Rogers thirteenth with 23:15.
“Overall I was very pleased with my girl’s team.” Coach Wes Meserve stated. “I still think some of my girls can go faster, and if we want to win region they’re going to have to give their all.”
“I knew the girls would win on Wednesday,” Coach Gina Anderson stated, “but I didn’t expect that they would win by as much as they did. I was very pleased as well as a little surprised.”
The boy’s team also did extremely well at this invitational. Cody Roach took third with a time of 17:17, a new personal record for the young sophomore. Other finishers included Cody Schroader who placed thirtieth with 19:17, Austin Schadler thirty- third with 19:28, Cody Inman thirty- fourth with 19:31, Dylan Johnson sixty- fourth with 21:12, Bailey Terry eighty- second with 22:09, Wesley Nevitt ninety- second with 22:09, and Bo Powers ninety- seventh with 23:41.
“I was very pleased with the boys,” Meserve stated, “they were favored to get tenth and they ended up getting fifth overall. I’m excited because the boys have finally created a pack that I can build on. I pretty much have the same boy’s team for the next three years, and I feel confident I can make them even stronger.”
When asked if surprised by where the boys finished, Anderson replied, “I really didn’t know how the boys would finish, but when I saw that they had gotten fifth it seemed they’d finished where they should have.”
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