The Greenfield-Central girls cross-country team competed in the Rick Weinheimer Classic at Cereland Park on Saturday and finished 11th overall.
Sophia Moss moved into eighth-place on the program’s all-time 5K list, and Reagan Crouch jumped into a tie for 19th on the list after the event hosted by Columbus North.
Audrey Brinkruff led the Cougars in the race with a 10th-place run, which was the third-fastest time in school history at 19 minutes, 4.6 seconds.
Moss was 44th at 20:57.2, Crouch finished 63rd at 22:04.0, and Emma Bogle ran in 23:14.3. Emily Wright recorded a time of 23:39.6. Emma Leininger (24:39.2) and Shelby Hoffman (23:53.8) rounded out the team’s top performers.
Cougars boys XC
takes seventh
The Greenfield-Central boys cross-country team placed seventh out of 22 teams during the Rick Weinheimer Classic on Saturday.
The Cougars tied for sixth place with Whiteland, but lost on the tiebreaker.
Multiple Cougars ran either a season-best time or a personal-best time.
Junior Matt Wickham broke 17 minutes for the first time running 16:37 for 35th place. Wickham’s time puts him as the 17th-fastest in Cougars’ history.
Austin Nigh also dropped under 17 minutes by running in 16:55 (45th). Freshmen Liam Brinkruff almost joined Wickham and Nigh by running a PR of 17:02 (49th).
Brinkruff is now the third-fastest freshman in Cougars history.
Griffen Wheeler ran a PR in 17:13 (56th). Freshmen Chris Ross ran a PR of 17:17 (61st), and his time was good enough for the seventh-fastest freshmen in Cougars history.
Luke Muckerheide took almost a minute off his time this season running 17:52 (90th). Morgan Flanagan ran a PR at 17:56 (93rd). Jacob Presser ran a season-best time of 18:12 (101st), and Lucas Tutrow ran 19:20 (135th).
Marauders finish
13th at Marion
The Mt. Vernon girls cross-country team knew that they had an uphill battle going into the Marion Invitational on Saturday.
Racing in the Chuck Schlemmer elite division, Mt. Vernon placed 13th. Second-ranked Carmel outpaced No. 1 Ft. Wayne Carroll by a mere point to win the event, but they were followed closely behind by a bevy of top-20 ranked talent.
However, the Marauders did not back down. Navigating the middle pack, MV’s first six runners all set significant personal bests and the team was a mere 13 points away from Bishop Dwenger in the final standings.
Junior Lydia Carrell (20:09), freshman Allie Jenson (20:34), sophomore Tori Jenson (20:49), senior Esther Small (21:01), Mindy Cornelius (21:06), Morgan Tharp (21:08), Alex Overshiner (26:13), and Hannah Eads (26:41) all ran personal-best times while Madelyn Ludlow and Rissa Foster both ran season bests.
Marauders boys XC takes 10th
The Mt. Vernon boys cross-country team finished 10th at the Marion Invitational on Saturday during the elite race with 267 points.
Placing for the Marauders were Austin Rush in 26th (16:36), Evan Rappe 42nd (16:56), Reyce Morgan in 63rd (17:22), Tyler Strantz 69th (17:25) and rounding out the scoring was Colin Brown in 87th.
