Bulldogs Harriers Capture Ripley County Crown

September 1, 2017 Annie Nunley

The Boys and the Girls Batesville High School Cross Country teams were crowned County champs Thursday night at Milan High School. The boys scored a low 21 points with JCD coming in 2nd with 60. Milan just beat South Ripley 76-79. The girls scored even lower than the boys at 19 points with JCD also taking 2nd at 58 just beating South Ripley with 63. Milan finished out with 98.

RC CC Meet (8-31)

Batesville also had the individual champions of both races. Sophomore Joshua Myers for the boys, racing through the finish line at 17:50, setting a new course record, and sophomore Liz Loichinger finishing the girl’s race at 20:40. The top ten of each race also were named to the All County team. All seven of the varsity boys came through in the top ten and six girls. What an incredible feat!

Making the All County team for Batesville for the boys and following closely behind Joshua were Adam Moster-2nd (18:02), coming through in 5th, Joseph Choi (18:50) followed closely by the rest of his teammates, Dillon Murray-6th (18:53), Chris Laymon-7th (18:55), Quinten Gowdy-9th (18:57) and Nathan Eckstein-10th (19:09). On the girls side, the Bulldogs also took the 1-2 punch as senior Emma Gausman followed Liz to take 2nd in 21:07. Emma was followed by Haylee Harmeyer (21:24) and Audrey Weigel (22:12) in 4th and 5th place. Audrey Maupin (22:34) and Trysta Vierling (23:11) took 7th and 8th place giving Batesville 13 runners to make the All County team! Way to go Dogs!

Although the JV meet was not scored and no awards were given, Batesville also had the winners of this race as well. Sophomore John Thompson won for the boys at 18:52 and Ava Ralston was the first girl to come across the line at 24:28.

There were also 6 personal bests for the evening and they were: Nathan Eckstein, John Thompson, Adam Hollowell, Luke Esser, Nathan Villani and Landon Gutzwiller. Congratulations boys!

The next race is right after Labor Day, Tuesday where they will compete in the East Central Invitational.

Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman and Eagles Coach David Bradshaw.