Many of the area runners converged in Mexico on Friday.
In the latest edition of the Mexico Cross Country Invitational, Centralia's Jozelynn Bostick won the girls race with a time of 21:10.46 …
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Many of the area runners converged in Mexico on Friday.
In the latest edition of the Mexico Cross Country Invitational, Centralia's Jozelynn Bostick won the girls race with a time of 21:10.46 — outrunning runner-up Jocelyn Dorsey, of Hannibal, by 55 seconds to win the event for the third straight year. In the boys race, Mexico’s Thomas Peuster and Missouri Military Academy’s Bryson Powell finished back-to-back in the top five.
Kenedee Moss gave Centralia another girls top-five finisher with her fifth-place time of 22:51.14. In respective 11th and 13th places, Shelby Lewis and Annie Robinson appeared in the top 20 to medal for the Lady Panthers, who finished in second place as a team with 55 points to fall behind Macon.
The Centralia boys also finished second as a team with 59 points, trailing Bowling Green and individual winner Ben Chance’s 16:42.82, thanks to five medalists.
Jennings Lesher had the best boys finish with a ninth-place 18:05.37. Landon Moss, 11th, Carter Moss, 13th, John Holiman, 14th, and Elijah Hill, 17th, were the other medalists.
The Mexico girls finished right behind Centralia in third place with their 57 points. The Lady Bulldogs had four medalists that were led by Maggie Ramsey’s sixth-place time of 23:01.19 and followed by Sidney Turlington in ninth place, Kalea Henneberry in 10th place and Viviana Benjamin in 16th place.
On the boys side, Mexico finished fourth as a team and were led by fourth-place finisher Thomas Peuster’s time of 17:55.66. Tyler Grimes finished 12th with a time of 18:49.63 to give the Bulldogs another medalist.
MMA’s Bryson Powell was close behind Peuster with his fifth-place time of 17:56.55. He and Gerardo Quiroga’s 18th-place time of 19:20.07 gave MMA two medalists and a fifth-place team finish.
North Callaway’s Pressley Schmauch ran to a 14th-place time of 23:38.95 to give the Ladybirds a medalist. Grace Rasmussen had the girls’ next best finish in 33rd, and Brendan Reinhard had the highest finish for the boys in 37th.
Van-Far had two runners participate in the invitational as Erin Childs finished 38th in the girls race, and Richard Hayden was 79th in the boys race.
Community R-6’s Callie Jennings finished 54th in the girls race.
