KEOKUK – The Fort Madison Lady Hounds and Hounds cross country teams dominated the Keokuk Cross Country Meet Thursday evening.
Fort Madison took eight of the ten spots in the girls' and boys' events, with the Lady Hounds taking all five spots enroute to two first-place finishes at the Keokuk Elks Country Club.
Junior Avery Rump just missed breaking the 20-minute mark with a 20:10 to lead Fort Madison. The time marks a nice rebound from last week’s run where Rump suffered with the high temperatures.
Ellie Hellman was second at 20:45 followed by Addison Rump at 21:10 and junior Mara Smith in her first varsity run taking 4th at 21:24. Jordyn Marshall was 21:34.09 good enough for 5th place and the sweep of the top five.
Taking the top five makes a perfect 15 point score for the Lady Hounds. Other runners for the ladies include McKayla Schinstock who finished in the top 10 with a 22:26 (10th) and Ellie Huebner with a 24:36 (18th).
Central Lee’s girls took second place overall in the girls' run with 97 points. Evelyn Adkins led the way with a 23:07 (12th). The other scoring runners included Macy Anderson at 25:16 (22nd), Aubree Bunnell 25:53 (24th), Afton Maynes 27:07 (31st), and Charlee Clay 27:23 (33rd).
Gabby Maynes also ran for the Lady Hawks finishing at 28:08 (37) and Saphire Cummings 31:37 (42nd).
In the boys' run, Fort Madison was led by 2023 state qualifier Jacob Shottenkirk who clocked at 17:33 to edge WACO’s Jude Dykstra by three seconds. The Hounds’ Mason McLey was third under 18 minutes at 17:57 (3rd), and Nolan Guzman took 5th at 18:10.
Peyton Lambert and Hunter Weigand raced to the line for 6th and 7th with 18:17.48 and 18:17.95, followed by Calvin Johnson just two seconds behind in 8th with an 18:20. Riley Tripp slipped into the top 10 with an 18:49 to round out the Hounds' runners.
Central Lee took 3rd getting a tiebreaker win at the 6th runner spot with 114 points edging Clark County.
Austin Fogarty had the top time of the Hawks with a 20:41 (25th). Ayden Kent took 27th overall with a 21:09:04 edging Illini West’s Kayden Swisher by .5 seconds. Caden Crozier finished 32nd with a 21:36. The other two scoring runners for Central Lee included Caedon Newton at 21:53 and Kaidin Humes with Newton edging Humes 21:53.00 to 21:53.91 for 34th and 35th overall. Keegan Westfall ran a 25:07 (52nd)
Holy Trinity’s boys finished 8th with 177 points. Jay Ellison was the top Crusader with a 21:24, followed by Layne Rung at 21:41 (33rd). Tanner Williams 21:56 (36th), Adam Sobczak 26:00.70 (56th), and Koop Jones 26:19 (57th) were the other scoring runners for HTC.
Jacob Baker finished at 26:20 (58th) to round out the HTC participants.
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