Deerfield-Windsor, Lee County runners shine in weekend meet
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From staff reports
The Deerfield-Windsor girls and the Lee County boys had runner-up finishes over the weekend at the Lee County Invitational cross country meet.
Jon Durham of Deerfield-Windsor was the boys meet’s individual champion with a time of 17 minutes, 40.90 seconds. It was his first career victory.
Deerfield-Windsor’s girls, who had 86 points to finish behind champion Lowndes’ 47, were led by a fifth-place finish individually from Bailey Irvin in 22:53.60 seconds. She was backed up by Gabrielle Harris (17th, 24:25.50), Cece Lukes (18th, 24:28.00), Jane Strickland (21st, 24:41.10) and Callie Salter (31st, 25:59.10).
Lee was fourth in the girls meet at 117 points behind a 10th-place finish from Emily Phillips (10th, 23:38.30). She was supported by Alea Bochette (16th, 24:17.90), Samantha Collins (29th, 25:40.60), Alma Ostrander (35th, 26:25.50) and Cadence McClung (36th, 26:36.30).
Baconton Charter’s girls were eighth, led by Kimberly Curles (39th, 26:58.70), while Furlow Charter was seventh, led by Maya Wynn in seventh at 23:13.40.
Lee’s girls also won the middle school division behind top finishes from Olivia Vanderwalt (third, 14:48.50) and Harlee Oosterveen (seventh, 15:13.20).
In the boys meet, Lee had 60 points to trail only the 29 from Lowndes. Deerfield-Windsor was a close third at 69.
Lee’s Edward Ostrander was fifth individually at 18:50.10, while he was joined in the top 25 by teammates Tim Ellis (10th, 19:30.10), Seth Tomlinson (11th, 19:31.20), Jacob Beard (15th, 20:02.00), Andrew Wahlgren (19th, 20:15.90), Warren Morris (23rd, 20:36.90), Will Tomlinson (24th, 20:38.10) and Burt Roberts (25th, 20:38.30).
In addition to Durham’s first-place finish, the Deerfield-Windsor boys also got strong runs from Graham Ford (third, 18:07.60), Garrison Slaughter (seventh, 19:02.30), Charles Peeler (18th, 20:12.30) and Jackson Belusko (47th, 22:06.20).
Worth County’s boys were ninth behind Eyan Zupko (17th, 20:06.20) and Conner Mullen (21st, 20:26.00), and Furlow Charter was 10th behind Edwin Gonzalez (13th, 19:50.20). Baconton Charter was 13th and Baker County was 14th in the boys meet. Baconton was led by Jaquez Jones (43rd, 21:49.40), and Baker was led by Moises. Perez Jr. (69th, 23:58.00).
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