Bourbon High School freshman Elijah Frederick punched his ticket to the Nov. 6 Class 2 State Cross Country Meet at Gans Creek in Columbia by finishing in the top-30 of the Oct. 31 Class 2 District 3 …
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Bourbon High School freshman Elijah Frederick punched his ticket to the Nov. 6 Class 2 State Cross Country Meet at Gans Creek in Columbia by finishing in the top-30 of the Oct. 31 Class 2 District 3 Meet in Owensville.
Frederick finished in 26th out of 136th competitors with a time of 18:18.95 in the boys’ 5K race.
Fellow Warhawks Joshua Gibbs, Silas Henn and Paul Studdard also competed in the district meet in Owensville. Gibbs took 99th place with a 21:99.15 time. Henn finished in 108th with a 22:48.12 time and Studdard earned 125th with a 23:02.31 time.
Leah Negretti and Alaina Evans competed in the girls’ 5k race in Owensville and finished in 102nd and 110th out of 119 runners. Negretti completed the race in 27:11.35 and Alaina ran a 28:54.92 time.
Cuba High School’s cross country team competed in the Class 3 District 3 Meet beginning at 9 a.m. in Owensville, prior to the Class 2 District 3 race Bourbon competed in.
Junior Ella Basham was Cuba’s top finisher, earning 54th place out of 106 competitors with a 23:48.3 time. Although Basham’s season ended after not finishing in the top-30 she ended the year with All-GVC (Gasconade Valley Conference honors) and multiple medal winning performances throughout the season.
Cuba seniors Brody Bayless and Jackson Herwig along with freshmen Tristan Cross and Ryan Ray competed in the boys’ 5k district event in Owensville.
Cross continued his reign as the Wildcats’ top boys runner, capping his debut high school campaign with a personal-best 20:47 time to finish in 93rd out of 136.
Bayless took 116th with a 22:05 time and Ray finished right behind him, earning 117th place with a 22:15 time. Herwig earned 133rd with a 23:52 time in his last high school cross country race.
Many of Cuba and Bourbon’s cross country runners will return to action in the spring to compete for each school’s track and field teams. Bourbon’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams were coached by Tina Gibbs and Cuba’s cross country teams are led by head coach Aurora Pfeiffer and assistant coach Heather Silva.
