Batesville High School hosted the Ripley County Cross Country meet Thursday evening. Despite the heat and high humidity, both the Batesville boys and girls came out victorious!
The boys did so by scoring a perfect 15 points as the first 5 to cross the finish line were from Batesville. The Bulldogs were also honored to crown individual champions to both Caleb Moster with a time of 18:02 for the boys and Mary Poltrack at 20:34 for the girls. Congratulations Caleb and Mary!
On the boys side, Batesville was followed by South Ripley scoring 58, Jac-Cen-Del was third with 79 and Milan fourth with 89 points. Making the All County Team by coming through in the first 10 spots were Caleb Moster, the county champion , Connor Bell, the runner up, Brice Keeton took third place overall, followed by teammates Clay Yeaton coming in fourth and Quinten Gowdy, fifth. 2 more Bulldogs raced to earn a spot on the All County team and they were Alex Batta, who was seventh overall and Grant Meyers, who was
eighth overall. Also running well for Batesville boys were Jackson Wooldridge who came in 13th and Josh Nobbe and Derek Nobbe who came in 17th and 18th respectively.
On the girls side, they had a low total score of 19 followed by South Ripley’s 42. The girls also had all seven varsity runners make the All-County team and they were. Mary Poltrack, the county champion, Maria Wessel in 3rd, Emma Gausman , Audrey Weigel and Sarah Poltrack took 4th, 5th and 6th repectively. Also making the All County team were Katie Baumer, 8th and Madeleine Robben, 9th. Some other spots tonight went to Audry Maupin, 11th and Kylie Lehman, 12th.
The heat was definitely a factor today and its hard to believe anyone would run a personal best, but we did have one and that was Audrey Maupin by about 40 seconds.
The dogs wll take a break this weekend, but will be right back at it next Tuesday at the East Central Invitational!
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman.