The AA and AAA district cross country meet was run on Saturday at Reedsville (Indian Valley). Homer Center won the Boys AA race and Bishop McCort won the Girls AA race. Bellwood-Antis finished sixth in the Boys competition and Tyrone was 21st.
Kyle Shiffler was the top finisher for the local schools. The Blue Devil senior was 21st overall with a time of 18:09. Aaron Bell, a sophomore at Bellwood-Antis was 29th in 18:29, Will Edwards was 38th in 18:43, Jason Nedimyer 46th in 18:57 and Dan Himes 47th in 18:59. Josh Wrywas finished 79th and Teddy Keramidas was 90th.
“This was a really positive experience for our boys team,” said Bellwood-Antis coach Julie Roseborough. “All five boys finished in the top 50 in what was a very tough race. All five ran under 19 minutes and several had their personal best times for the year. We finished sixth out of 29 teams in the race and were just eight points out of fourth place. Kyle Shiffler ran an especially good race, just missing qualifying for the State Meet by three spots. We will have three of the top five boys back for next year. if we can pick up a runner and have the boys improve their times, we will be ready for next year.”
Trevor Harbst was the top Golden Eagle runner with a 73rd place finish in 20:00, Jim Gehret was 101st, Doug Brown 118th, Nick Barndt 127th and Eric Sweet was 138th.
“Trevor Harbst ran an excellent race,” said Tyrone coach Tammy Snyder. “He just burned the race with his best time of the year. All the kids had a good race and a good year.”
The Tyrone girls placed 14th out of 25 schools, while Bellwood-Antis had just two girls run.
Sarah Pentland was the top placer for the Lady Eagles with a 53rd place in 23:21, despite running with the flu. Rebbeca Mogle finished 61st in 23:57, Emily Ingle 68th, Erin Langenbacher 74th and Angel Diehl 106th.
“Sarah did very well considering she wasn’t feeling well,” said coach Snyder. We are looking forward to next year with four of our tiop five girls back, which will make us a tough team to beat. I was very pleased with all our kids this year. Boys and girls did a good job all season.”
Junior Allison Cherry was the Lady Blue Devils top runner finishing 20th in 21:37, missing qualifying for States by just two spots and freshman Amanda Houtz was 94th.
“Allison missed qualifying by a couple spots,” said coach Roseborough. “We were hurt all year by lack of numbers on the girls team and lost some of the people we did have with injuries and illnesses. Allison had a good season and had a pretty good run in the districts.”
