Baxter’s True leads area harriers at Colfax-Mingo

COLFAX — Five area female runners earned medals at the Colfax-Mingo Tigerhawk Cross Country Invitational on Thursday.

But only the Tigerhawks had enough runners for a team score and Baxter’s Makayla True and Colfax-Mingo’s Ashlynn Hosband led the way in the top 15.

The top 25 finishers in each varsity 5K race earned medals. Class 1A No. 16 Grand View Christian won the team title with 43 points, while Collins-Maxwell (52), North Mahaska (72), Woodward-Granger (79) and Colfax-Mingo (90) completed the five-team field.

The incomplete teams were Baxter, Colo-NESCO, Clarke, BGM and the Newton junior varsity.

There were several issues with the timing system. Some runners were not listed at all. Others were given times their teammates ran. It did not affect Colfax-Mingo’s finish in fifth.

True led all area runners and the Bolts in 10th. She was clocked in 22 minutes, 31 seconds. Her lone teammate, Zoey Gliem, was 19th in 25:09.

Colfax-Mingo’s Hosbond, Mallory Sipma and Shae Wilkins all earned medals. Hosbond was 13th in 23:02.7, Sipma placed 16th in 24:49 and Wilkins ended up 21st in 25:24.1.

Lilyan Hadsall (27:33.66) placed 36th and foreign exchange student Laila Kwaskiewicz (28:43.22) finished 42nd as the final counting scorers.

Devan Chadwick (30:05.33) and Ava Van Maaren (30:54.22) were non-scoring runners in 44th and 46th, respectively.

Laek Sullivan (27:25.03) and Ashlyn Wallace (28:30.22) competed for the Newton JV and finished 35th and 41st, respectively.

Eva Flesher of Woodward-Granger won the girls’ race in 19:58.5 and 1A No. 20 Jayden Peters of Collins-Maxwell was the runner-up in 20:16.6.