By Kevin Gartman
Head cross country coach
SEARSBORO – We had lots to be proud of at the SICL Meet with 5 H high school runners with career-best times, 5 more with season-best times, and most runners who didn’t fit those benchmarks had second-best times on the season.
The conference meet was run on our course at Big Springs Shooting Complex.
On the middle school side, 5 of our 7 runners crushed their 1.6-mile times from five days prior.
Moving forward, high school state qualifying sites have been posted. We’ll get ready to ramp up toward next Thursday’s meet.
Junior high runners that have chosen to run on Saturday will finish out a couple more practices to prepare for that race.
SICL Cross Country
at Big Springs Shooting Complex
Middle school girls – 3,200
Montezuma 3rd of 5 scoring schools – 13, Brea Cheney, 11:26.7; 23, Alyssa Latcham, 12:24.3; 24, Lexi Urfer, 12:25.0; 30, Lucy Semprini, 13:13.20; 32, Keegan Gunderson, 13:45.4. There were 48 runners.
Middle school boys – 3,200
Montezuma – no team score. 8, Jaxon Young, 10:43.7; 18, Luke Benson, 11:20.4. There were 40 runners.
High school girls – 5K
Montezuma – 5th of 5 scoring teams – 16, Ellen Cook, 21:50.0; 21, Alexa Rose, 23:48.4; 24, Sophia Semprini, 24:13.2; 25, Claire Erselius, 24:34.9; 28, Vivian Cook, 24:56.1; 37, Karlee Knust, 27:21.2; 41, Haileah Eichenberger, 28:01.6. There were 45 runners.
High school boys – 5k
Montezuma – 5th of 7 scoring teams – 21, Cade Lowry, 19:43.9; 22, Jusiah Wetering, 19:49.7; 28, Dayton Reif, 20:33.4; 30, Cael Cheney, 20:37.9; 39, Bryson Stockman, 21:39.7; 42, Linkyn Bru, 22:07.9; 46, Nicholas Damon, 22:26.8. There were 64 runners.