After another dominant day from top to bottom, Manhattan High cross country swept all four team titles Saturday at the Maple Leaf XC Classic in Baldwin City.<\/p>\n
The Indians\u2019 girls varsity team won with 28 points, while the boys followed with 38. Manhattan also took the girls’ and boys’ B-team titles, continuing the depth that has been a strength throughout the season.<\/p>\n
Senior Gabrielle Converse led the girls individually, winning in 17:57.00 and lowering her own school record for the second time this season. Her previous time was 17:58.43 at the Southern Stampede in September, which then broke her own school record of 18:03.65 set at last year\u2019s Stampede.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Zara Koehn finished runner-up in 18:20.32, followed by junior Andie Strathman in eighth (19:27.97), sophomore Allison Knopp in ninth (19:37.32) and junior Lauren Perry in 11th (19:53.89) to round out the scoring five. Sophomore Isla Spreer placed 12th (19:57.13), while freshman Franci Irvine was 14th (19:58.25). Knopp and Irvine both recorded personal bests.<\/p>\n
On the boys side, sophomore Jaxon Wheeler led the way with a runner-up finish in 16:16.20.<\/p>\n
Senior Benjamin Huser was sixth (16:48.67), freshman Brecken Fabricius ninth (17:00.10), sophomore Levi Gurgel 10th (17:01.00) and junior Kyler Grogg 11th (17:02.65) to give Manhattan the team title.<\/p>\n
Senior Benjamin Herzog finished 19th in 17:15, while sophomore Carson Robinett placed 22nd in 17:18.43. Fabricius, Gurgel and Robinett each posted personal bests.<\/p>\n
Manhattan will continue its season with the Haskell Invite in Lawrence on Saturday, before Hayden hosts the Centennial League meet the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After another dominant day from top to bottom, Manhattan High cross country swept all four team titles Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[135255,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-364834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-high-crosses","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}