Despite resting its top varsity runners, Manhattan High cross country still delivered a strong Saturday, with the girls winning the team title and the boys finishing third at Salina Central.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan girls won with 60 points, finishing ahead of Dodge City (88) and Valley Center (126). Freshman Franci Irvine led the Indians with a fifth-place finish in 20:08.40, followed closely by senior Scarlett Williams in sixth at 20:08.64. Freshman Ryan Vera added a ninth-place finish in 20:32.11.<\/p>\n
Leah Gaul finished 19th in 21:23.21, while Valeria Villoria took 21st in 21:32.49, rounding out Manhattan\u2019s scoring five. Sydney Lehman placed 23rd in 21:48.98, and Claire Grennan finished 40th in 22:38.92.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan boys placed third with 119 points, behind Wamego (71) and Wichita-Trinity Academy (76). Sophomore Benjamin Herzog led the Indians in 14th in 17:28.25, followed by junior Ethan Birkhead in 16th in 17:30.47 and sophomore Carson Robinett in 17th in 17:30.64.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Lucas Gish finished 36th in 18:01.73, and junior William Meritt placed 38th in 18:03.70 to complete the scoring five. Sophomore Eli Witt finished 42nd in 18:11.07, and senior Trent Swanson took 44th in 18:14.88.<\/p>\n
Wamego delivered a strong performance as well, with the boys winning with 71 points and the girls placing fourth with 140.<\/p>\n
Senior Braxton Williams led the boys with a third-place finish in 17:04.55, followed by senior Malachi Weimer in 11th in 17:25.51, junior Greyson Stream in 13th in 17:27.98, senior Logyn Evans in 20th in 17:41.33 and senior Benny Jones in 24th in 17:48.41. Sophomore Michael Clark placed 30th in 17:57.72, and sophomore Estevan Donez finished 70th in 19:19.88.<\/p>\n
Senior Shayne Pittenger-Reed led the Wamego girls with a fourth-place finish in 20:02.70. Sophomore Colleen Murphy placed 13th in 20:56.27, and sophomore Zulia Wells took 18th in 21:15.41.<\/p>\n
Senior Rachel Barber finished 51st in 22:59.28, junior Kayla Balver placed 54th in 23:16.95, while freshman Marabelle Aldridge took 62nd in 24:01.36, and freshman Brenn Blume finished 63rd in 24:07.34 to round out the Red Raiders\u2019 runners.<\/p>\n
Hayden hosts the Centennial League meet on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite resting its top varsity runners, Manhattan High cross country still delivered a strong Saturday, with the girls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2149,75,84,83,9,24,63,43409],"class_list":["post-372132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-kansas","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-wamego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372132","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=372132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}