The Cross Country teams took to the fields this weekend for the Gilmer Buckeye Invitational. The runners enjoyed a two loop course through fields and woods under cloudy skies! The Junior High teams kicked off the morning with their first races of the season. In the girls race 105 runners finished the course. Sophie Fisher placed 52nd in a time of 19:00, while Merritt McMahon placed 93rd in a time of 22:45. In the boys’ race, Logan Languish led the Roughnecks with a 15th place finish in a time of 14:26. Languish was followed by Nathan Watson in 16:56, 36th, Hayden Hunter 17:01 for 38th place and Cooper Tucker, 47th, in 17:35. Luke Bueno rounded out the scoring for the boy’s team in 55th place in a time of 18:35. The Junior High boys finished in 8th place as a team with a score of 191 points. In the Varsity girls’ race Lizzy Still led all runners with a first place finish in a time of 13:53. Abby Lobue placed 6th in 14:45 followed by Morgan Benge in 18th place for 15:35. The girls’ race saw 86 runners compete. The boys team placed third as a team behind Spring Hill and Pleasant Grove with 112 points. Nathan Green and Adrian Pinson placed in the top ten finishing in 9th and 10th place. Green finished the three mile course in 19:21, Pinson in 19:31. They were closely followed by Alberto Soto in 13th place in a time of 19:37. Logan Dugger finished in 32nd place in 21:19 and Jake Yarbrough in 48th place in a time of 22:24 to round out the scoring for the Roughnecks.
The teams are idle this week, but will return to action on September 11th at the Flying H Invitational at Hallsville High School.

Adrian Pinson completes the first loop of the 3 mile course

Varsity Girls medalists: Morgan Benge, Lizzy Still, and Abby Lobue

Nathan Green places 9th at the Gilmer Buckeye Invitational