The Batesville Bulldog Cross Country team had one day break from the Thursday County meet and got up early this morning to travel to Sunman to participate in the East Central Invitational. Both the boys and the girls took runner-up with all 7 runners for both in the top 20. The boys started the morning off as the gun went off at 9:00 a.m. Leading the way for Batesville was Isaac Trossman placing 6th and running a season PR (17:56). Jaden Basler was next for the Dogs in 9th place (18:29), followed by Cannon Clark, 11th (18:40) and Ethan Rahschulte was 12th with an overall personal best of 18:57. He was closely followed by Cash Myers, 14th, who also had a season PR (19:19). Finishing out the top 7 for Batesville and placing in the top 20 were Deev Ranka, 16th (19:36) and Eli Loichinger, 19th (19:47). This gave the Bulldogs a final score of 52 points and a second-place finish to Elder High School who scored an impressive 21 points. Also for the boys, Benjamin Adams placed 7th in the JV race and Manan Patel ran a personal best. Congratulations boys!
On the girls’ side, they also had all 7 runners in the top 20 with Lexiyne Harris leading the way for the Dogs, running a season’s personal best of 20:46 and placing 4th. Kaylynn Bedel came in next in 5th (21:12). Megan Allgeier was next for Batesville in 7th (22:26) with Bayleigh Demaree close behind in 8th and running a season’s best of 22:34. Samantha Adams was next, 11th (22:46), followed by Isabel Raab in 16th who also ran a season’s personal best of 23:26 and right behind her and finishing out the top 7 was Kaylie Raver in 17th (23:28). The Bulldogs final score was 35 placing them second behind East Central with 21 points. Also, Batesville’s Charlotte Trossman was 1st in the JV race and Ella Moster placed 5th. Way to go girls!
Submitted by the school’s athletic department.