Local runners finish off pace at state cross country championships
Published 9:32 pm Tuesday, November 16, 2010
- Corner cross country runner Carissa Reeves heads down the tree-lined home stretch at the Oakville Indian Mounds Park coruse in the AHSAA State Championships on Saturday. Reeves, who qualified as an individual, finished 47th in the Class 4A race.
It was a rough day Saturday for local high school runners at the AHSAA Cross Country Championships.
The Mortimer Jordan boys, the only local school to qualify a team for the state event, finished 14th in the Class 5A finals. The Blue Devils were led by Gatlin Holland, whose time of 19:15.35 over the five-kilometer course at Oakville Indian Mounds Park was good for 77th place.
In the girls’ 5A race, Hayden — which won its sectional and then stated it would not attend the state meet because of a conflict with a basketball tournament — instead sent a small team of racers after the AHSAA reversed course on whether the Wildcats could voluntarily skip the event. The four-member contingent was not large enough to register an official team score. Sam Ashley was the Wildcats’ best finisher.
Jordan’s lone entrant, Ashley Colley, was 141st.
In the boys 6A race, Gardendale’s Miller Wood finished in 68th place with a time of 17:47.71, about two minutes behind the winner, Brandon Mazouri of Spain Park.
In Class 4A, Corner has not had enough runners all season to qualify for team placement, but all of its runners nonetheless qualified as individuals.
Carissa Reeves finished 47th in the girls division with a time of 24:31.04. Her teammate, Lauren Watkins, was 91st.
On the boys side, the Yellow Jackets’ Preston Sloan was 121st with a time of 23:38.47.
