Cross-Country: Highland County runners compete at districts; gain regional qualifiers
The 2025 Division II-IV SE District Cross-County Championships were held at the University of Rio Grande on Saturday, Oct. 18, where Highland County saw a total of two girls teams, one boys team and 12 individual runners not on a qualifying team race their way to regionals next weekend.
The three teams who qualified for the event were the Lynchburg-Clay Mustangs boys team in Division III, the Fairfield Lady Lions girls team in Division IV, and the McClain Lady Tigers girls team, also in Division IV.
Below are all the runners at districts with their school, name and grade, plus overall time and place at districts. Runners who are bolded have qualified for regionals on Saturday, Oct. 25 at Pickerington North High School.
HILLSBORO INDIANS
DIVISION II
BOYS
9, Luke Thompson (freshman), 18:22.24
28, Easton Inman (sophomore), 18:54.07
44, Kameron Evers (junior), 20:10.10
45, Luke Letts (freshman), 20:11.96
52, Ryan Howland (senior), 21:01.37
59, Trenton Gulley (sophomore), 21:38.53
61, Cooper Swope (senior), 22:45.21
HHS Team Finish: 8th place out of 10 teams … 190 points
(66 total runners)
DIVISION III
GIRLS
21, Taylor Thoroman (senior), 21:56.66
52, Quinn Swope (freshman), 24:39.57
83, Abriann Anderson (freshman), 28:16.71
HHS: No Team Score
(110 total runners)
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LYNCHBURG-CLAY MUSTANGS
DIVISION IV
GIRLS
9, Lillian Layne (sophomore), 21:39.36
(87 runners)
LCHS: No team score
DIVISION III
BOYS
3, Kyler Fite (senior), 16:25.23
7, Tavion Huguely (sophomore), 16:49.47
35, Wyatt Osborn (senior), 18:38.47
41, Elam Faust (senior), 18:57.84
50, Logan West (freshman), 19:15.86
53, Glenn Watson (freshman), 19:39.25
79, Cylus Arrington (sophomore), 20:19.80
LC TEAM SCORE: 3rd place out of 19 teams … 124 points
(141 total runners)
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MCCLAIN TIGERS
DIVISION III
BOYS
66, Isaac Mincey (freshman), 19:51.15
97, Chris Lanning (freshman), 21:15.83
101. Jayden Burgess (freshman), 21:33.39
113, Dartanyen Stovall (junior), 22:31.31
117, Zander Lyons (sophomore), 22:57.69
124, Owen Sykes (freshman), 24:37.31
129, Riley Butcher (sophomore), 25:28.61
MHS TEAM SCORE: 17th place team out of 19 teams … 444 points
(141 total rummers)
GIRLS
41, Lila Banks (freshman), 23:57.92
67, Laura Stevenson (junior), 26:29.13
80, Laura Barber (senior), 28:09.88
81, Liv Stegbauer (senior), 28:09.90
97, Vada Ponder (junior), 30:56
MHS TEAM SCORE: 11th place out of 15 teams … 319 points
(110 runners)
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WHITEOAK WILDCATS
DIVISION IV
GIRLS
20, Sofia Juarez (senior), 23:08.01
49, Aubrey Swafford (sophomore), 26:26.58
65, Tessa Frazer (freshman), 28:50.53
81, Olivia Blanco (junior), 32:52.22
WHS: No team score
(87 total runners)
BOYS
17, Keegan Eyre (senior), 18:08.73
25, Shane Mitchell-Cox (senior), 18:24.04
60, Tre Lamb (junior), 19:57.66
82, Shawn Mitchell-Cox (senior), 21:33.44
87, Kenyon Hughes (senior), 21:58.01
WHS TEAM SCORE: 11th place out of 18 … 257 points
(121 runners)
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FAIRFIELD LIONS
DIVISION IV
GIRLS
40, Iryna Reeves (sophomore), 25:18.04
43, Allyson George (freshman), 25:28.34
52, Madelyn Wiseman (senior), 26:58.13
71, Emelia Roehm (senior), 29:35.90
77, Bailee Miller (freshman), 30:48.33
79, Trinity Everhart (sophomore), 31:06.67
FHS TEAM SCORE: 8th place out of 9 teams … 171 points
(87 total runners)
BOYS
38, Vincent Ballard (freshman), 18:59.82
44, Blake Walters (freshman), 19:12.85
73, Zach Ahsaruk (senior), 20:34.57
83, Connor Ayers (junior), 21:34.02
104, Noah Kerns (freshman), 24:03.05
FHS TEAM SCORE: 15th place out of 18 teams … 320 points