Cross country runners compete at Story City

The Ogden cross country team kept chugging along, finishing in 6th for the girls and 8th place for the boys at the Roland-Story cross country meet.

The girls team had a great finish, ending up in sixth place out of fourteen teams. Hannah Booth finished with a time of 22:44.53, good enough for 11th place. Camryn Buxton wasn’t far behind, being the 21st person crossing the finish line. 

The girls’ team had two other runners place in the top fifty in a packed race. Juniors Gabby Diggs and Aubrey Keenan placed at 41st and 42nd respectively. They were just over 2 minutes behind Booth. 

Overall Ogden placed 6th with 171 points. There wasn’t a ton of difference between the 3-7 places points wise. Dallas Center-Grimes blew past everyone at the meet with a low 17 points. They had the first four finishers on their team. In second was Nevada with 91 points. 

For the boys, they were without top rated Andrew Stumbo. Stumbo has placed first every meet so far this season so his absence was huge. With that said, the Ogden team still did very respectable, ending up in 8th place out of 14 teams. 

Gershom Levi had a great time of 18:26.10 which was good enough for 19th at the meet. Blake Gregory wasn’t far behind, ending up a little over 20 seconds behind and only 5 places. Jacob Hinman and freshman Garrett Buxton placed in the top 50. Hinman was 36th place and Buxton was 45th. 

Overall, Ogden ended up with 179 points. Just 8 points lower and they then would have been tied for fifth so that shows how close this meet was. Bondurant-Farrar was the winner with 65 points, 20 points ahead of second place South Hamilton. 

Bulldog runners travel to West Central Valley Thursday. Next Tuesday is another road trip for the South Central Calhoun Invite, the first of two meets that week. Thursday, Oct. 6 Ogden competes at South Hamilton.