Sports V-S Boys 7th, Girls 9th at Benton XC meet

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The young Vinton-Shellsburg cross-country teams had a perfect day for a run in the Atkins woods Saturday and took advantage of it with a pair of top 10 finishes at the Benton Invitational

Paced by lone-senior Cameron Karr, the Vikings were 7th. Karr finished 25th overall with a time of 18:36.3.

The Vikettes were 9th, led by sophomore Charlee Johnson’s 36th place finish in 23:43.2. Sophia Dilley was close behind in 39th in a time of 23:52.8

The V-S cross country teams will be back at Tuesday, when they battle in the rugged 29-team Starmont Invitational. They return home a week from Tuesday when they host the Vinton-Shellsburg Invitational.

VARSITY RESULTS

25 Cameron Karr, SR 18:36.3 5:59 48 Philip Kalina, JR 20:25.1 6:34 49 Elijah Blix, FR 20:47.1 6:41 57 Reid Hermanson, FR 22:13.2 7:09 59 Elias Colsch, JR 22:35.4 7:16 62 Isaac Allsup, JR 22:58.4 7:24 64 Ashton Slaton, FR 24:17.5 7:49

36 Charlee Johnson, SO 23:43.2 7:38 39 Sophia Dilley, JR 23:52.8 7:41 46 Molly Haisman, FR 24:40.4 7:57 52 Aspen Ahrenholz, FR 25:21.7 8:10 55 Bailey Weeks, SO 27:11.2 8:45 61 Annabelle Newton, FR 28:53.2 9:18

For junior varsity and middle school results please go to: http://www.kauderraceresults.com/cross-country-results2.html and look for the Benton Invitational results.