Batesville XC traveled to East Central Saturday morning for their 11 team Invitational. Thankfully the rain came through in the night and early morning allowing race time to be dry, but leaving the course a little wet and muddy and the air a little cooler, but still muggy. Although everyone competed together, the results were split up into “big” schools and “small” schools.
As a team, Batesville’s boys won convincingly by scoring only 24 points with East Central coming in 2nd with 51 points. On the girls side, they tied with East Central both scoring a solid 39 points, however, coming down to the 6th runner, East Central nudged ahead of Batesville to claim the victory. The Bulldogs did claim the individual champion in each race. Liz Loichinger led the big schools for the girls pushing ahead in the final 400 of the race and winning by 6 seconds with a time of 20:49. Then in the boys race, after an even race through the 3K with Taylor High School’s Chase Grauel, Ean Loichinger pulled ahead to a commanding lead finishing 1st by over 20 seconds ahead of 2nd place with a time of 17:04.
The Bulldogs also crowned the champion of the boys JV race as it was junior Luke Esser coming across the finish line first (20:31), 11 seconds ahead of teammate Daren Smith. Awards were given to the top 15 in the varsity races and Batesville claimed 5 of those spots in each of the races. Besides our champions, other award winners were: Lily Pinckley, 3rd, Sarah Ripperger and Trysta Vierling, 10th and 11th respectively, just .1 separating them and finishing off the girls were Katie Olsen, 14th. For the boys: Adam Moster, 3rd, Joshua Myers, 4th, Benjamin Moster, 6th and Dillon Murray, 10th. On the reserve side, awards were given to the top 10, so besides Luke and Daren (1st & 2nd), Luke Nuhring, Alex Livers and Landon Gutzwiller came through in 8th, 9th, and 10th. For the girls it was Britany Venis who raced through in 4th. Congratulations to all award winners. The Bulldogs did have 1 personal record broken and that was Levi Lowery. Way to go Levi!
The Bulldogs will have a week of training this week to prepare for a big meet in Indianapolis on Saturday at Ben Davis High School where they will take on many 5A schools. Good Luck!
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman.