Zoey Johns finished fifth and Jovi Kirby finished seventh in the girls varsity race at the Republic Invitational Tuesday night, and Lucas Riffe and Luke Delahay finished seventh and ninth for the boys.
Johns ran the 5,000 meters in 22:19.7, less than a second behind the fourth-place runner, and Kirby finished in 22:30.2. Brylie Harris gave Republic a third runner in the top 10 with a time of 23:34.3, her best of the season, and Peyton Bodoin was right behind her in 11th in 23:45.8.
Quinnlyn Keller finished 19th in 25:33.6, and that was also her best time of the season. Zoie Walker ran a personal best of 28:06.9 and finished 28th, and Ellie Woolfenden was 29th in 28:25.5. Anabelle Brown finished 32nd in 32:51.1.
Republic and Springfield Catholic were the only two schools with full teams in the girls race, and Republic had the better score, 23-32. Avery Miller of Aurora won the race in 20:44.1.
Riffe ran 18:16.8 in the boys race. He was the first runner across the line who wasn’t from Springfield Catholic or New Covenant Academy. Delahay finished in 18:45.3.
Eli Sherrow ran a personal best of 19:34.7 to finish 14th. Caleb Brest was 19th in 20:34.6 and Derek Argaez was 27th in 21:31.7.
Game page →Republic finished second out of eight teams with 62 points. Springfield Catholic’s five scoring runners took the top five team places for a perfect score of 15, and Kyle Hathcock won the race in 16:54.2. Reeds Spring was third with 105 points.
Hiro Nambara finished 38th in 22:20.9 and Caden Young was 54th in 25:01.3. Ezra Wakefield, Bradley Scobee and Bryceton Cahill also ran for Republic.
Middle school
Jayci Clinton won the sixth-grade girls race. She ran the 3,200 meters in a personal-best 14:02.6 and finished 20 seconds ahead of the second-place runner. Elaina Logan was seventh in 15:47.1, also a personal best. Josie Burton finished 15th, Brynn Cullen was 24th and Brinley Graham was 36th.
Maddox Taft finished eighth out of 101 runners in the eighth-grade boys race with a personal best of 12:07.2. Oliver Killelea was 13th in 12:33.8 and Liam Mounteer was 24th in 12:47.7. Liam Cummins finished 45th and Noah Barnes was 55th. Chad Langdon, Dawson O’Neil, Alex Casella, Max Russell, Jaren Holt and Jacob Trantham also ran for Republic.
Aden Livingston and Henry Wilson finished ninth and 10th in the sixth-grade boys race, in 14:20.8 and 14:38.8, and Cole Bollinger was 12th in 14:58.8. Eli Young finished 17th and Kenton Stoecklein was 18th. Will Elsenraat and Brody Mounteer also ran.
Gracyn Hesse led Republic in the eighth-grade girls race. She finished 18th with a personal best of 14:39.2. Ava Saul was 29th, Sarah Worley was 37th, Dixee Scobee was 44th and Zaley Spillers was 45th.
Cade Clutter ran a personal best of 14:07.3 and finished 36th out of 114 runners in the seventh-grade boys race. Lincoln Brown was 57th, Cruz Dooms was 91st and Matthew Crowley was 98th.
Chelsea Waterman finished 29th in the seventh-grade girls race in 16:42.7. Keira Casady was 40th, Katie Rowden was 50th, Ellyott Lyons was 62nd and Alli Stulce was 63rd.
Republic’s next meet is the Camdenton Invitational at Ha Ha Tonka on Saturday.
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