Photo Credit : Kristy Jones

Hillsville – Cross Country Head Coach Shawn Montgomery is the one in charge of all four Cavalier teams and they were all on display  Wednesday afternoon at Hillsville Elementary School.

Grayson County Blue Devils, Patrick County Cougars, Rural Retreat Indians and the Giles Spartans were all in with their teams while the Auburn Eagles participated in just the Middle School races.

  The meet went for just over 90 minutes start to finish and included three races. Opening up the day was the 18 Middle School Girls. Montgomery normally has four runners in this  event put both Polly Beamer and Haleigh Smith were unavailable. Reece Bunker (13:04.0) of Giles won the event while Carroll County runners Alexis Ponce (17:43.6) finished 13th and Aleksa Harriman( 26:47.8)  placed 18th.

The second race was the Middle School Boys and was the largest field of the day as 40 runners represented the six teams.

The Middle School Boys entered the event as the only squad eligible for the team competition. This group of nine runners are enjoying a strong season, highlighted by winning the meet held at Grayson County. Six of the nine were available in the race and a pair of Cavaliers placed inside the Top Ten.

Mason Ponce (12:31.5) led the way with a third place finish and seventh place went to Issac Chambers ( 13:13.2). The Cavaliers claimed spots 21-23 with Sylas Nissel (14:14.7), Wyatt Burian (14:31.7) and Colton Marshall (15:03.2) following each other across the finish line.

Tymas Nissel ( 18:07.8) rounded out the Cavalier runners 🏃‍♂️

Team Scores :

Auburn 18

Carroll County 58

Grayson County 77

Patrick County 79

The third and final race was the Varsity one with 27 runners split between both the Boys and Girls. While the youngsters cover 2.0 miles, the Varsity runners cover a full 5K (3.2 miles).

15 Boys and 12 Girls were the final number of runners. Amelia Forsyth placed ninth with a time of 27:31.1 and the winner was Cameron Rakes of Patrick County.

Trenton Newman continued his recent stretch of PR’s, claiming 8th overall with a time of 23: 33.9. Will Dalton landed in 12th place after posting a run of 25:14.0

Carroll County will return to the road for the remainder of their regular season before heading to the Regional meet.

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Dropping below the story for the Newspaper 📰, here are my pics of the six Middle School Boys crossing the finish line. Followed by our other five runners.

Now, the two Middle School Girls 👧 as they finish up.