The Batesville Middle School cross country teams traveled to the LaVerne Gibson Championship Course in Terre Haute Saturday for the Indiana Middle School State Championships. BMS participated in the small school varsity division, taking only those runners that met the qualifying times for the boys and girls teams.
The girls were led by Charlotte Trossman who placed 46th overall with a season best time of 12:03. Following Charlotte was Hilary Ziegler who finished 89th, Maycee Holtkamp in 100th then Hailey Pierson 124th, Jayla Bedel 131st, Caitlin Raver 183rd, Candance Shane 186th and Belle Young 223rd in a field of over 300 runners. As a team, the BMS girls finished with an impressive 10th place out of 33 schools.
Due to illness and injury, the boys team was missing two of their top runners. Despite the setback, the Bulldogs were still able to place 28th out of 35 teams. Landon Raver was the first Batesville runner to cross the finish line in 80th place with a time of 11:42. He was followed by Howard Hund 136th, Cash Myers 182nd, Levi Essick 210th, Winston Garrett 315th and Abe Trossman 325th.
Coaches Dee Raver and Sidney Howard are extremely happy with how well the middle schoolers performed, mentioning, “The season ended on a high note for the team, with many matching or obtaining a personal best time, which is great to see.”
We thank coaches Raver and Howard along with Dan Walter of BMS for the information.