Trojan boys, DC-S duo win RPAC titles

Friday, October 5, 2018

Hitchcock County’s Marian Carpenter (right) was another top 10 area place at the RPAC cross country championship meet on Thursday in Alma

R.B. Headley/McCook Gazette

ALMA, Neb. — Gazette-area athletes could be found throughout the top of Thursday’s RPAC cross country championship race results.

Damon Latta and Sable Lambley delivered individual titles for Dundy County-Stratton.

However, runner-up Zack Sickels (18:20.93) and Josh Paisley (fourth/18:34.02) powered the Cambridge boys to a team championship.

The Trojans (36 points) won a tie-breaker over Maywood Hayes Center’s own terrific team.

Eli Handsaker finished fifth overall (18:44.02) and Tate Hartley took sixth (18L47.74) for MH-C.

The Trojans had just slightly better overall places which earned them first place.

Shane Horwart reached the top 10 (10th/19:11.99) followed by Aiden Gunderson (29th/20:13.71) and Bobby Evans (21st/20:30.27).

Dylan Downer (31st/21:58.1) completed that champion Trojan lineup.

Latta finished 25 seconds faster (17:55.68) than any other RPAC runner.

Arpahoe’s Brandon Tucker was another area top 10 placer in eighth (18:58.65) ahead of Southern Valley-Alma’s Colten Fischer (19:18.74/11th).

In the girls’ race, champ Lambley (20:24.6) zoomed past Maxwell Tiger Tajzha Botts (20:52.37).

Hitchcock County’s Savannah Beegle finished fifth (23:13.46), Dundy County-Stratton’s Olivia Sis was eighth (23:51.52), Southwest’s Jesse Rolland took ninth and Mary Carpenter finished a strong 1oth (24:20.65).

Bertrand-Loomis took the team title with 29 points, just slipping those runner-up Tigers from DC-S (39).