The New Palestine girls and Greenfield-Central boys teams advanced out of today's Rushville regional and will compete in next Saturday's semistate at Northview Christian Life Church.
In the Delta regional, both Mt. Vernon teams advanced. MV's girls finished third, MV's boys were fourth. They will compete in the New Haven semistate next Saturday.
In the girls race, the Dragons finished fourth out of 10 teams in today's Rushville regional, earning a ticket to next Saturday's semistate at Northview Christian Life Church in Carmel.
The Dragons had 125 points, finishing five ahead of fifth-place Connersville and 49 points ahead of the cutoff to make it to the regional. Franklin Central and Warren Central -- the top two teams in the New Palestine sectional earlier this week -- were the top two teams with 23 and 78, respectively. Hagerstown was third with 94. NP was the only team in the top five to advance without a runner in the top 10, showing tremendous depth, as the Dragons' sixth runner was ahead of Hagerstown's fifth, Connersville's fourth and sixth-place Roncalli's third runner. Greenfield-Central was ninth with 205.
Emily Trimpe led the Dragons with a 23rd-place finish in 21:31. Natalie Shields finished 24th (21:32). Caroline Voelz was 27th (22:05), Kayla Medaris 31st (22:20) and Izzy Fleetwood 38th (22:43). Brianna Komornik (39th) and Chloe Kirchner (57th) did not score, but had strong runs for the Dragons.
G-C was led by 32nd-place Rebecca Flora (22:23). Also scoring for the Cougars were Katie McKeeman (41st, 22:48), Claire Talbott (43rd, 22:50), Emily Dupnick (45th, 22:54) and Megan Morley (64th, 24:21).
Eastern Hancock's Kiersten Schrope narrowly missed advancing, finishing 16th with a time of 21:14 -- one spot and 10 seconds shy of moving on.
On the boys side, Greenfield-Central scored 142 to finish fifth -- and was just eight points shy of third-place New Castle and six shy of fourth-place Roncalli. Franklin Central and Warren Central were the top two teams with 38 and 87 points, respectively. New Palestine finished seventh with 174.
G-C was led by senior Tyler Wi9lcher (17th, 17:37). Also scoring were Garrett Benedict (20th, 17:44), Christopher Tatom (25th, 17:56), Jared McQueen (45th, 18:35) and Jordan Wright (49th, 18:43).
New Palestine's Seth Eagleson finished sixth with a 17:00 run over 5K to advance to the semistate as an individual. Tate Schienbein of Union County won with a time of 16:01.
Also scoring for the Dragons were Austin Dodd (18:20, 37th), Oliver Dockins (41st, 18:30), Sam Jones (48th, 18:38) and Zach Nagel (56th, 19:03).
At Delta, Mt. Vernon's girls finished third with a team score of 101. Pendleton Heights won the race with a total of 56, Yorktown was second with 95. Four of the five advancing teams were from the Hoosier Heritage Conference -- Jay County and Delta were fourth and fifth.
MV had a lot of depth, shown by the fact that all five runners finished in the top 35. The Marauders were led by Elizabeth Cook (13th, 20:39), Miranda Bode (15th, 20:43), Jessica Grubb (25th, 21:37), Micaela Elmore (28th, 21:35) and Cassandra Eiler (31st, 21:49).
In the boys race, MV finished fourth with a score of 102, four points ahead of fifth-place Delta. Pendleton Heights won with a 45, beating Muncie Central by eight. Frankton was third with 89.
Matthew Abebe (12th, 17:27) led the Marauders. Nathan Bode (14th, 17:30), Andrew Boyle (23rd, 17:56), Taylor VanWinkle (28th, 18:06) and Gary Maley (37th, 18:24) all scored for the Marauders.
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