The White Oak Cross Country teams returned to action last Saturday, September 10th to compete at the Tyler Lee Invitational at the campus of UT Tyler. The top finisher for this week were Paige Maly for the varsity girls and Clay Hunter for the boys. Maly paced the girls with a 12th place finish in 13:15. She was closely followed by Brianne Mathews in 13th (13:22) and Morgan Hill in 14th (13:23). Nour Hussein followed in 14:05 (25th) and Lauren Berry 27th in a time of 14:16 rounded out the team scoring for the Ladynecks. Alyssa Mathews finished in 73rd out of 121 runners. The Ladynecks placed 4th out of 13 teams in the 1A-3A division. The ladies raced well for the challenging course.

In the boys race, the team competed in the Open JV boys division. This division consisted of class A to 5A teams. The boys placed 6th as a team out of 21 teams. Clay Hunter lead the Roughnecks with a finishing time of 18:40 over 3.2 miles to place 7th. Hunter was followed by Austin Jordan, 18:40.29, in 11th and Jonathan Spedowski, 18:40.94, in 12th. Mason Malone finished in 45th place in a time of 20:21. He was followed by Chase Robinson in 62nd, 20:58, to score for the Roughnecks. Greyson Jones, 21:14, 69th, and Carter Tackett 84th, 21:51 placed in the top one hundred. Blake Warren finished in 22:39, 125th, Drew Frazier followed in 23:37th and Bryson White in 24:20. There were 231 runners in the boys race. The boys also raced well for the grassy, hilly 5k course. The teams will not compete this weekend but return to action at the Pine Tree Puddle Jump and Pig Trot at Katy’s Ranch September 24th. We hope to see you there.