Warren’s Luke Rettenberger completed runner-up to Tyler Consolidated’s Amos Kimble throughout Saturday’s Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
BELPRE — Tyler Consolidated’s Amos Kimble continued his early season success right here Saturday morning throughout the Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park whereas Wheeling Park’s Brenna Tipton was topped champion for the women.
Bridgeport’s ladies topped the sphere with 40 factors as Parkersburg South completed runner-up forward of Williamstown, 87-114.
The Cloverleaf boys had simply sufficient to edge Warren, 111-114, whereas Bridgeport wanted sixth man Daniel Yearego to safe third over Fisher Catholic, which additionally had 138.
“I always know it’s going to be a fast race so I just try and go out fast and see if I can keep it,” admitted Kimble, who crossed in 15:48 as Warren’s Luke Rettenberger (16:15), Waterford’s Gavin Offenberger (16:39), Silver Knight Travis Moore (16:23), Wheeling Park’s Rylan Moore (16:23), Parkersburg South’s Gatlin McLain (16:40), Fisher Catholic’s Gavin Forbes (16:45.00), Bridgeport’s Troy Zorick (16:45.38), River Valley’s Jansyn Smith (16:59) and Wirt County’s Matthew Balis (17:05) adopted within the prime 10.
“I felt good. That last mile I pulled away a little bit. I just did what I needed to do and got the job done. I think I led the whole race. I just didn’t let up. I tried to keep first place the whole time. We got Doddridge and then Grafton up next. Those are probably my two hardest races of the year, so I’ll be racing against the sophomore (Micah Gainer) from University at Doddridge. He runs about a 15:30 and I’ll be racing a junior (Trevor George) from Elkins at Grafton and he runs about a 15:30, too. It’s going to be a rough couple races, but I think I can get the job done.”
Warren’s Alex Bishop positioned fifteenth with a time of 17 minutes and 34 seconds throughout Saturday’s Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
Kimble, who’s top-ranked in double-A within the Mountain State by runwv.com, beforehand had first-place showings at the Autumn Classic, the Midland XC Festival in addition to final weekend’s Chick-fil-A Invitational.
“This was my first race with somebody who is really at my level and similar running ability and I just let the mentality get to me,” admitted Rettenberger, who was adopted by teammates Alex Bishop (fifteenth, 17:34), Caleb Yost (sixteenth, 17:37), Spencer Rehl (thirty fourth, 18:26) and Clay Perry (forty seventh, 18:54). “I used to be like ‘oh, I don’t know if I can do that or not’ and I held with him for two miles and I fulfilled my prophecy.
“I said ‘hey, I don’t think I’m going to do too good today’ so I didn’t end up doing too good today, and that’s a really hard mentality to break. I struggled with that pretty much all last year, but I know I can do better and definitely can run a lot faster than that. My dad is pretty much like my therapist every Friday night before we go to race. You let that compound in your head and you just can’t let that happen.”
Cloverleaf had a trio of prime 25 efforts due to Gavin Forbes (seventh, 16:45), Caleb Neville (14th, 17:26) and Noah Mion (twentieth, 17:42) whereas Clay Gucker (thirty first, 18:11) and Mason Clapp (thirty ninth, 18:38) comprised the remainder of the staff scoring.
The Indians’ prime 5 ladies completed in second (Aria Selario, 19:45), fourth (Mikaela Demoss, 20:07), tenth (Isla Tobrey, 20:55), eleventh (Bethsayed Dankiewicz, 21:00) and thirteenth (Ash McBrayer, 21:25).
St. Marys’ Bryce Bills positioned 18th with a time of 17 minutes and 40 seconds throughout Saturday’s Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
The freshman Selario admitted the restart of the race was powerful to cope with.
“It was kind of hard,” the Indian mentioned. “It was exhausting to reset and go sooner once more. It was shocking, too, as a result of I by no means needed to do it earlier than. I simply wished to exit right here and run quick. I really feel like I did OK.
“Not really what I wanted for time-wise, but it’s OK. It was really hot out. I was looking for low 19s time-wise, but we got out here and it was really hot. That didn’t happen, but it’s OK. I’m glad with my place.”
Tipton led all the race and clocked in at 18:35 as the rest of the highest 10 featured John Glenn’s Ashlynn Kuklica (third, 19:58), Williamstown’s Cassie Sites (fifth, 20:12), St. Marys’ Anna Bennett (sixth, 20:19), John Marshall’s Kalyn Reese (seventh, 20:37), Parkersburg South’s Jalyn Eddy (eighth, 20:37.19) and Patriot teammate Alyssa McCrady (ninth, 20:37.83).
“Our team did, but I wasn’t here. I was at a soccer game,” replied the sophomore when requested if she competed a yr in the past. “I do each. Today we had a sport, however I selected to come back right here as we speak as an alternative. It went good. This is my first time getting first in a highschool meet.
St. Marys junior Anna Bennett crossed the end line in sixth place after clocking in with a time of 20 minutes and 19 seconds throughout Saturday’s Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
“I was excited and I really wanted to go sub 18 for the first time today, and that didn’t happen, but it feels good to get first. I think the heat got to us and I was definitely a little dehydrated, but I can PR later in the season so it’s no big deal. I knew the field and I knew I had a good shot at taking first.”
Parkersburg South head coach Brian Blanc was greater than happy with the day because the Patriots additionally had scoring efforts from Haley Raper (fifteenth, 21:32), Sophia Shamblin (twenty seventh, 22:49) and Lexi McKinney (thirty second, 23:19).
“I couldn’t be happier with our team’s effort out there this morning,” admitted coach Blanc. “We knew as we speak was going to be an ideal day to goal for brand new PRs as a result of the course was in good situation. It’s about as quick as you may hope for in cross nation.
“We ended up with 11 of our 22 competing athletes getting their season PR. I’m very excited about the depth of our girls team, the continued growth and improvement of both squads, and the promising young prospects I see doing so well for our feeder middle schools, Blennerhassett and Edison.”
Finishing inside the highest 25 behind Sites for the Yellowjacket ladies had been Nola King (twenty second, 22:22) and Sylvia Harris (twenty third, 22:24) whereas Bella Bryant (thirty fourth, 23:25) and Alia Phelps (thirty ninth, 23:53) additionally aided within the third-place staff end.
Williamstown junior Cassie Sites completed in fifth place after crossing in 20 minutes and 12 seconds at Saturday’s Belpre Invitational at Civitan Park. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
Bridgeport’s boys additionally had prime 25 efforts following Zorick due to William Northey (eleventh, 17:15) and Graham Northey (twenty fourth, 17:56). Parker Muncy was twenty eighth with a time of 18:04 and Andrew Wagner positioned 73rd at 19:50.
Also accumulating prime 25 finishes for space boys had been Williamstown’s Jimmy Erlandson (seventeenth, 17:39) and Zander Boyce (twenty third, 17:53), St. Marys’ Bryce Bills (18th, 17:40) and Parker Barnes (twenty second, 17:49) in addition to Silver Knight Brody Nice, who positioned nineteenth with a time of 17 minutes and 41 seconds.
Other space prime 25 efforts for the women included Warren’s Ashlee Pate (twelfth, 21:07) and Rania Singh (twenty first, 22:18), Belpre’s Shy Miller (sixteenth, 21:40), St. Marys’ Savana Burd (seventeenth, 21:47), Federal Hocking’s Elsie Amlin (nineteenth, 22:00) and Blue Devil Maddie Smith (twenty fourth, 22:26).
The Belpre boys had their prime exhibiting from Drew Williams, who completed 69th after crossing in 19 minutes and 41 seconds.
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