Girls first, boys third in home cross country
By LHSports
The Lakin girls won the team title at the Lakin Invitational cross country meet Saturday, while the boys finished third.
Led by Kate Miller’s gold-medal run, the Broncs placed four runners in the top 20 to score 47 points, with Liberal in second place with 62 in the eight-team field.
Miller finished the 5-kilometer course in 19:05:00. Jeci Mead placed third in 19:59.60.
Honey Murillo was 12th (22:25.62) and Emma Miller 19th (22:33.38).
Tess Barnhardt (25th), Claire Barnhardt (28th) and Tynslee Wideman (39th) rounded out the field for the Broncs.
Holcomb won the boys title with 45 points. Scott City was second with 81 and Lakin third with 110 in the 12-team field.
Freshman Miles Delgado led the Broncs with a fifth-place finish in 17:00.55. Gavin Dyas was ninth in 17:20.49. Josiah Sholtz was 28th (18:54.31) and Clark Maddux 34th (19:10.63) were Lakin’s other scorers.
Jeremiah Gonzalez of Holcomb won the race in 16:39.25.
Brantley Martin (41st) and Blake Vasquez (56th) rounded out the Broncs team.
Owen Maddux placed 16th in the seventh grade boys 2-mile run (13:55.94).
Kirby Koons placed 23rd and Joleigh Lohman-Fuller 29th in the eighth grade girls race.
For the eighth grade boys, Jonathan Gannett won the meet in 11:14.2. Luke Miller was 10th (13:04.3), Troy Hamm 11th and Kingston Guerrero 12th.