VIKING HARRIERS FINISH 6TH AT HALSTEAD

BECKER, PETRSON TOP SV RUNNERS

By Staff

HALSTEAD – On Thursday, the Smoky Valley cross country boys team ran at the Halstead Invitational and finished sixth overall.

Rolling up 185 points the Vikings trailed invitational team champion Southeast of Saline (25), Hutchinson Trinity (74), Goddard (149), Circle (151) and Marion with 159. There were 16 schools total running for the team championship.

Individually, Britton Becker and Samuel Peterson ran the best for Smoky Valley as they finished twenty-first and twenty-third with times of 18:48 and 18:52, respectively. There were 109 runners in the varsity division.

Charlie Bowman had the best Viking time in the Junior Varsity run, getting a season best time of 22:21 to finish fourteenth out of forty-seven runners.

Next up for the Viking harriers will be on Tuesday, October 3 at Ellsworth.

SMOKY VALLEY VIKING CROSS COUNTRY at Halstead Invitational

TEAM SCORING > 1. Southeast of Saline – 25; 2. Hutchinson Trinity – 74; 3. Goddard – 149; 4. Circle – 151; 5. Marion 0 159; 6. VIKINGS – 185; 7. Cheney – 223; 8. Wellington – 226; 9. Ellinwood – 227; 10. Wichita Collegiate – 236; 11. Halstead – 299; 12. Clearwater – 302; 13. Haven – 308; 14. Douglass – 309; 15. Pretty Prairie – 330; 16. Belle Plaine – 397.

VIKING INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (109 runners) > 21. Britton Becker – 18:48; 23. Samuel Petrson – 18:52; 48. Kaden Bishop – 20:00; 50. Sebastian Pavlovich – 20:07 (season best); 51. Brayden Eyer – 20:07; 72. Elijah Spooner – 21:25; 73. Isaiah Ayala – 21:26.

VIKING JUNIOR VARSITY RESULTS (47 runners) > 14. Charlie Bowman – 22:21 (season best); 22. Pierce Keller – 23:53; 38. Connor Frees – 28:56; 39. Hudson Gustus – 28:57 (season best).

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