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Lady Tigers fly to second place at Lamar Cross Country Invitational
It was another successful outing for the Nevada Tiger and Lady Tigers cross country teams at the recent Lamar Cross Country Invitational.
For Nevada, the Lady Tigers varsity team earned a runner-up finish, the junior varsity girls fifth place; the junior varsity boys 19th place; and the varsity boys 45th place. The Nevada Middle School boys and girls were also on hand for the event.
Nevada's highest individual finish was freshman Calli Beshore's second-place finish in the girls 5-kilometer event.
"At the meet, we competed against nearly 20 of some of the best schools from southwest Missouri," NHS cross country coach Ryan Watts said. "It was a very tough meet with some quality runners."
Watts said that the meet featured some of the fastest runners his squad has competed against this season.
"We ran very well," he said. "Our middle school team, which 10 of our 11 (runners) are seventh-graders, who ran very well. Competing against eighth-graders in combined races is a very tall order because so much growth happens in that year that it makes a huge difference. But our kids held their own."
Watts continued, "In fact, both in middle school, junior varsity and varsity, almost all of our runners ran at or better than their best times of the season, which was very exciting to see.
"Our varsity girls ran an awesome team race with our top five runners all medaling. The varsity girls brought home another second place plaque."
Watts said his varsity girls team nearly took first place.
"We were narrowly edged out by a Holden (High School) team that is as tough as you will find," a pleased Watts said. "I was very excited with how we performed, as were all of our runners. It was a great day to be a Tiger runner!"
NHS results
---- Varsity girls ----
* Calli Beshore: second-place overall; Virginia Haverstic, sixth-place; Patience Lockhart, seventh-place; Amara Pippin, ninth-place; Heaven Farmer, 18th-place; Haleigh Leisure, 61st; and Courtney Leeker, 71st.
---- Varsity boys ----
* Luke Sudcamp 45th overall; Noah Lanear, 66th; Bronson Smith, 83rd; Trenton Ellis, 87th; Braden Ast, 97th; Jayden Ast, 109th; and Devin McHugh, 115th.
---- JV girls ----
* Amanda Blystone, fifth overall; Katlyn Dunfield, ninth-place; Hailee Richter, 12-place; and Taityn Charles, 14th-place.
---- JV boys ----
* Ben Sudkamp 19th overall; Clay Landoll 23rd; Caleb Theis, 24th; Charles Morton, 26th; Colson Fisher, 34th; and Jerron Thorton, 56th.
---- Middle school girls ----
* Ashlynd Taylor, 16th overall, and fifth-place seventh-grade finish; Grace Barnes, 28th overall, and eighth-place seventh-grade finish; Lilly Hart, 41st overall, and 15th-place seventh-grade finish; Breanna Moore, 43rd overall, and 17th-place seventh-grade finish; Bailey Ast, 51st overall, and 21st-place seventh-grade finish; Ashley Mather, 52nd overall, and 22nd-place seventh-grade finish; Christinia Kane, 62nd overall, and 26th-place seventh-grade finish; and Emma Follmer, 91st overall.
---- Middle school boys ----
* Mokey Dawn, 64th overall, and 24th-place seventh-grade finish; Jamin Mosher, 77th overall, and 28th-place seventh-grade finish.