Versailles Republican Sports
September 1, 2005

Local runners fare well in '05 Rushville Co-Ed Cross Country Invitational meet

Gary Franklin - Sports Writer

The 2005 Rushville Invite XC Meet was held on Saturday, August 27. This was the largest high school invitational cross country meet in the state, with representation by 71 schools.

The Division 3 boy's portion of Saturday's meet involved 24 different schools which included Jac-Cen-Del and Milan. The field consisted of 141 runners in the Division 3 race.

Saturday's meet results at finish in first place, with a time of 17:35, was Milan senior, Adam Baylor. Finishing seventh for the Indians was senior, Nathan Hampton with a time of 18:30.

Jac-Cen-Del runners also finished high having runners taking third place, Eagle junior, Justin Eaton with a time of 18:10, and a sixth place finish to JCD senior, Kyle Horan with the time of 18:28.

Milan won the individual fastest runner honor with Adam Baylor.

Jac-Cen-Del's team won high honors as well, as they were able to hold off contenders to finish second in the meet with the accumulative team score of 93. The first place team finished with a tally of 90 points.

Jac-Cen-Del Boy's individual scores: a third place finish to Eagle junior, Justin Eaton, with the time of 18:10; sixth place to senior, Kyle Horan with a time of 18:28; a twenty-first place finish to Andrew Wagner, a junior with the time of 19:24; JCD sophomore Austin Lord with a time of 19:35 finished at twenty-eighth, and rounding out the top five runners for the Eagles was freshman, Blake Sutton with a time of 19:47 and a thirty-seventh place finish. JCD senior Grant Gilland finished fortieth with a time of 20:04, and Eagle sophomore David Busch finished eighty-second with a time of 21:49.

Milan Boys' individual scores:

Adam Baylor, Indian's senior, first place runner at 17:35, seventh place finisher, and Nathan Hampton, a senior, with the time of 18:30.

Milan junior, Norman Roark with the time of 19:28 earned a twenty-fifth place finish. Nick Woulms, a junior, took forty-first place with a time of 20:14, and an eighty-second place was taken by Milan senior, Josh Yatsko, with the time of 21:17. Milan, as a team, finished fifth with a score of 136 points.

The meets boys' fastest time was 17:35 and slowest finishing time was 36:19.

The Girls' also went racing

In the girl's portion of the meet, 112 participants ran representing 21 schools, again including the JCD and Milan squads. The range of finishing times was 15:29 for the fastest runner and the slowest to finish was 30:58.

The Lady Eagles team finished sixth with 202 points.

Individually, senior Alisha Lord finished thirteenth, with a time of 18:12, senior, Amber Lunsford finished thirtieth with the time of 19:23; sophomore Kelley Wagner finished thirty-fifth with 19:31; junior Kaitlin Hughes forty-sixth at 19:49, Eagle freshman Valorie Wagner finished seventy-eighth with 21:56; and sophomore Kayla Bradley finished seventy-ninth with a time of 21:58.

The Lady Indians team finished thirteenth with a 308 count.

Individually, sophomore Deborah Fryer finished twenty-ninth with 19:21; senior Danielle Clemens finished thirty-first with 19:24; senior Sarah Mills finished sixty-eighth with a time of 21:06; senior Megan Lade finished eighty-sixth with 22:41; and rounding out the Indian scoring was freshman Sarah Hughes finishing at ninety-fourth with a time of 25:28.

JCD and South Decatur go cross country

Eagles sweep with a wide broom, on their Thursday, August 25 meet.

Jac-Cen-Del runners for the boys team finished 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11, winning the meet by the score of JCD17 to 47 for So. Decatur.

The JCD girls also won their part of the meet with the Lady Eagle runners finishing 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

 

 

 

 


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