Lady Tigers, Eagles win county titles

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports EDitor

sports@galioninquirer.com

The Lady Tigers of Galion High School and the Colonel Craw­ford boys ran their way to cham­pi­onships in the Craw­ford County Cross Coun­try Meet held yes­ter­day at Amann’s Reservoir.

Galion’s girls outscored Bucyrus and Wyn­ford for their title. Only three of the six county high schools fielded com­plete teams. Buck­eye Cen­tral, Colonel Craw­ford and Crest­line did not. Galion had 27 points, Bucyrus, 45; and the Lady Roy­als, 48.

Jus­tine Yunker — a sopho­more at GHS — claimed brag­ging rights as the top female run­ner. Her time of 20:56.5 was nearly 24 sec­onds faster than that of runner-up Ellie Rich­mond of Wynford.

Lady Tigers also claimed the third, fourth and fifth place spots. Macy John­son was third at 21:36.46; Sammy Gates took fourth with a 21:45.54; and Michaela Slone secured the fifth spot at 21:53.83. Sadie Willacker’s time of 24:30.17 was good enough for 14th place (18th actual plac­ing) for the Orange-and-Blue.

Yunker, John­son, Slone, Gates and Slone each received All-County sta­tus for their per­for­mances. The top 7 run­ners in each race were so honored.

In the boys’ var­sity race, it was Colonel Crawford’s prov­ing to be the dif­fer­ence. Even though a trio of Tigers secured the top three spots in the race, the Eagles outscored the Orange-and-Blue 39–50 for the crown.

Other team scores were: Bucyrus, 59; Wyn­ford, 92; Crest­line, 149; and Buck­eye Cen­tral, 158.

For the win­ning Eagles, Pay­ton Delaney placed fifth at 17:07.15; Clay Mar­tin, sixth, 17:11.08; Logan Pfeifer, eighth, 17:36.86; Jon Hoff­man, ninth, 17:46.07; and Keith Cotsmire, 11th, 17:52.84.

For Galion, it was county cham­pion Chris McEl­lig­ott at 16:38; Dominic Erl­sten, sec­ond, 17:01; Zane Ekin, third, 17:01; Con­nor Kempf, 19th, 18:38; and Zach James, 25th, 19:16.

In the mid­dle school girls two-mile race, Galion was first, 26; Colonel Craw­ford, sec­ond, 34; and Bucyrus, third, 66.

Megan Zier led the Orange-and-Blue with a first-place time of 13:46.2. Also for Galion, Abby Barre was third, 14:07.4; Lau­ren Hug­gins, fifth, 14:46.9; Kelsey Hoff­man, sev­enth, 15:25.4 and Alexis Hadamus­cin, 10th, 15:58.4.

Colonel Craw­ford won the boys’ race. The Eagles had 26 points, Wyn­ford, 52; and Galion, 54.

Scor­ing for the cham­pi­ons were: Brad Bauer, first, 11:28.56; Chad John­son, sec­ond, 12:19.12; Nick Studer, sixth, 12:48.25; Jake John­son, eighth, 13:29.15; and Brody Mar­tin, ninth, 13:47.88.

Colin McCul­lough was Galion’s top run­ner with a third-place scor­ing time of 12:37.22.

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