PECULIAR, Mo. — With four runners finishing in the top 10, Joplin’s boys cross country squad captured the team championship at the Raymore-Peculiar Invitational on Saturday.
Competing in the large school division, Joplin finished on top of the team standings with 60 points.
Nixa was second with 69, while Lee’s Summit North (81) and Raymore-Peculiar (87) were third and fourth.
Joplin senior Hobbs Campbell was the runner-up with a time of 16 minutes, 33 seconds. Blue Springs’ Keagan Enicks took first in 16:06.
Joplin’s Ian Horton and Chance Tindall finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Horton crossed the line at 16:43, with Tindall clocking a time of 16:53. Eagles sophomore Grey Edwards took 10th in 17:13.
Also for the JHS boys, Parker Durham finished 45th in 18:46, Aidan Koch was 55th in 19:18 and Brady Honeycutt took 64th in 20:20.
There were 72 runners in the large school division, with 14 teams represented.
On the girls side, Joplin was led by Cylee Gilreath’s 28th place finish. She recorded a time of 22:36.
Also for the Eagles, Averi Burks finished 33rd, Meridyth Mai was 59th, Masyn Briggs took 64th, Isabella Cruse was 72nd and Annabelle Rutledge finished 78th.
The Eagles finished 10th in the team standings.
Blue Springs’ Abigail Brackenbury won the girls race in 19:18.
The top three teams were Raymore-Peculiar (34), Blue Springs (46) and Nixa (105).
