Batesville junior Jayla Bedel will represent Southeastern Indiana in the state cross country meet after finishing 25th overall (18:57) in the girls race at the IHSAA Regional at CeraLand Park in Columbus on Saturday.
Bedel will take part in the state finals this Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute.
As a team, the Sectional 18 champion Batesville girls finished 11th overall out of 25 teams.
Other individual results for the Bulldogs are listed below:
- Francesca Myers-43rd, 19:39…personal best performance
- Caitlin Raver-83rd, 20:36…2nd best time
- Sydney Gilland-91st, 20:44…4th best time
- Paige Allgeier-97th, 20:49…2nd best time
- Audrey Dieckmann-139th, 21:43…personal best performance
- Aubrey Weberding-149th, 21:55…personal best performance
East Central came in 18th overall in the girls race.
Alyssa Donawerth was the Trojans’ top performer, placing 72nd overall with a time of 20:11.
Josie Wenning led the Oldenburg girls and recorded had a 32-second personal best with a time of 20:15; teammateAlaina Jensen had a four-second personal best a time of 22:49.
In the boys race, the Trojans were 23rd overall with the Bulldogs right behind in 24th place.
Individual results for BHS were:
- Ryan Benz-117th, 17:27.10.
- Cael Luhman-120th, 17:27.60
- Duncan Fish-174th, 18:08…personal best performance
- Brody Gibson-212th, 18:47…3rd best time
- Luke Raver-224th, 19:18…2nd best time
- Timothy Quillin-227th, 19:21…2nd best time
- Levi Essick-228th, 19:22
Oldenburg’s Sam Dennis had a 26-second personal best (17:03); Carson Hartwell finished his senior season with a time of 17:11.
Meanwhile, the Greensburg girls team qualified for the State Meet with fifth place finish at the Crawford County Regional on Saturday.
The Pirates had three running individually. Senior Quinton Walker ran a season best 17:01.3 and earned 56th place; Ben Schneider ended his freshmen season running 17:56.1 to place 114th; and Braylon Brancamp finished 167th in 18:40.3 to round out his high school cross country career.
For full results: IHSAA Cross Country Regional 4 2026 – Results