State-ranked L-S girls dominate field at West Marshall

STATE CENTER — On the day the Lynnville-Sully girls cross country team moved up to No. 3 in Class 1A, the Hawks claimed another meet championship on Tuesday.

The Hawks’ five scoring runners all finished in the top 11 and L-S won the West Marshall Cross Country Invitational at Lincoln Valley Golf Course with 33 points.

Colfax-Mingo’s Ashlynn Hosbond and Baxter’s Makayla True also finished in the top 15 as the Tigerhawks were fifth in the team race. Baxter was an incomplete team.

Mandeesa Vos continued to lead the state-ranked Hawks. The L-S freshman finished fifth in the girls’ 5K race in 21 minutes, 36.49 seconds.

Emma Parkinson was the second Hawk finisher for the first time this season. She was sixth in 21:45.11. Olivia Norrish (22:20.63) took eighth, Peyton Sharp (22:32.08) finished 10th and Breah Lowry (22:36.42) ended up 11th.

Hosbond’s 12th-place finish was clocked in 22:47.83. Mallory Sipma (25:06.03) placed 18th, Shae Wilkins (25:17.5) was 19th and Lilyan Hadsall (27:40.89) took 35th.

Laila Kwaskiewicz (30:09.39) was the final scoring runner for the Tigerhawks in 44th.

True was 13th for Baxter in 22:54.13 and Zoey Gliem placed 21st in 25:25.7.

Lynnville-Sully was 24 points clear of runner-up and host West Marshall, which was second with 57 points. L-S went 5-6-8-10-11, while West Marshall ended up 3-4-17-22-26-27.

Collins-Maxwell (61), South Hamilton (88) and Colfax-Mingo (96) completed the five-team field.

Class 1A No. 5 Jayden Peters of Collins-Maxwell won the girls’ race in 20:24.42. Colo-NESCO’s Elizabeth Erickson was the runner-up in 20:53.38.