Two teams and several Wabash County individuals ran in the New Haven cross country regional Saturday at Huntington University.
The highlights of the day were Wabash’s Ezra Church and Northfield’s Kaleigh Rice qualified for next week’s state finals meet at Indiana State.
Ezra Church will don the orange and black one more weekend as he qualified individually for the state finals by virtue of his 20th place finish. This marks the 3rd consecutive year and 4th time out of the last 7 years that Wabash will be represented at the state finals. Overall the Apaches finished in 6th place out of 25 teams. Super sophomore Kamden Oswalt finished 32nd with a new personal record in the process. Caidan Burchett raced valiantly to his limit coming in 39th. Isaiah Cordes put everything on the line a week after an ATV accident and raced to a 51st place finish. Matthew Niles came out strong from the gun finishing with a new season PR coming in 182nd. Maverick Sommers always running inspired came in 224th and Landen Fisher posted a new PR coming in 238th.
Kaleigh Rice is heading to Terre Haute next weekend for the ISHAA State Championship Meet! Kaleigh finished 32nd out of 243 runners in the New Haven Regionals. After the top 5 teams were pulled from the individual standings, Kaleigh was 12th runner to move on as an individual. She ran a PR time of 19:33.
Preston Moore crossed the line first for the Norse boys with a PR time of 17:55, Kourtland Pratt came in just after Moore with a time of 17:57 and Bode Sorg ran a 18:43 for the day.
Manchester was represented by 5 athletes today at the IHSAA Regional Meet hosted by New Haven at Huntington University. Senior Clark Showalter ended his 5 year cross country career with a career PR of 17:35. Oliver Fitzpatrick battled back from a knee injury early in the season to run a career PR of 17 flat. Jet Thomas, who raced so consistent this season, was only 4 seconds from his career PR set earlier this season. Jet’s time was 17:51. Rachel Steely ran a season PR in a time of 21:15, 7 seconds from her career PR set last year. Emersyn Sarber ran a career PR of 22:38, dropping 15 seconds.
The Southwood girls also ran in the meet, finishing their season at the regional. We will add their placings when received.
