Way Takes 2nd at COC

Republic’s Ryan Way took second place at the COC cross-country meet at Nixa Tuesday. Way finished the race in 16:25 — a pace of 5:17 per mile. He was about five seconds behind the winner, Ozark’s Kyler Haurmann. Way finished less than a second ahead of the third-place finisher, Brandon Martin of Nixa.

Taylor Mooneyham, Ryan Houston, Cameron O’Dell, Dalton Golding, Parker Nelson and Riley Crews also competed for Republic’s varsity squad.

On the girls varsity side, Republic’s Ashley Foster finished with a time of 24:22.

Joe Criscuolo and Zach Wheeler competed in the JV race for Republic.