Bison boys run second at Lexington Invite

Thursday, September 6, 2018
McCook’s TJ Renner dashes to the finish line during a Bison cross country meet at Cozad on Saturday.
Kelly Ninas

Senior Riley Mai’s second top three finish in two meets this season helped the McCook boys take second overall at Tuesday’s Lexington Invitational.

Junior Elsi Rodewald moved up to her own high place while leading the Bison girls.

Mai posted a time of 18:04.2 which was faster than all but host Lex runners Alexis Hernandez (17:03.9) and Yanni Vasquez (17:51.1).

Not surprisingly, Lexington took home the team title (22 points) with four of the top five places around Mai.

However, junior Isaac Hegwood (13th/19:32.8) and senior Eric Graff (14th/19:32) made sure McCook (60 points) outperformed all other teams.

Adams Central took a close third (62 points) ahead of Wood River (98).

Junior TJ Renner delivered a fourth top 20 effort (17th/20:02) and freshman Josh Hegwood (19th/20:16.6) made it five.

Carson Richards completed the fastest Bison contingent in 35th place (21:35.9).

In the girls race, Rodewald raced to thired (21:24.9) behind just juniors Grace Reiman of Adams Central (20:29) and Lexington’s Madison Smith (21:03.4).

Freshman Grace Cappel climbed to sixth overall (22:37.8) during only her second meet as a Bison high schooler.

Freshman classmate Joslyn Hammond claimed 17th place (24:32) for the McCook girls, who were third overall with 59 points.

Sophomore Megan Hodgson reached the top 20 at No. 20 (24:55.4) followed by Lexi Hauxwell (24th) and Kailynn Rodewald (28th).

'Rider tops area runners

Southwest sophomore Jake O’Dea earned 16th overall with a time of 19:45.9) that area runners outside McCook at Tuesday’s Lexington cross country invite.

Arapahoe entered its entire varsity team and Brandon Tucker was the next fastest area boy in 21st place (20:23.3).

Southwest freshman Jesse Rolland set the pace (27th/26:22.9) for girls’ runnders not weearing Bison colors.

Arapahoe freshman Hannah Whitson was 33rd (27:06.6) just behind Bison Liviya Wier (31st/26:53.1) and Madison Tarenez (32nd/27:04.1).

Southwest’s Kylea Stritt finished 34th at 27:40.3. Many area athletes are running at Chase County today.

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