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MARCUS — It was a day for War Eagle Conference teams and athletes to showcase their talents on the Marcus Golf Course in the War Eagle Conference Meet held Thursday.
MMCRU senior Lucas Braun captured the boy’s 5K crown separating himself from 51 runners. Braun posted a winning time of 18:14.38, leading the Royals to a runner-up team finish behind Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, who won the team title for the second consecutive year.
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn finished with a team score of 57, while MMCRU finished with 74.
South O’Brien came in fourth place with 100 team score. Their top performance came from freshman Landon Davenport, who finished third individually with a time of 18:41.45. Also earning all conference honors was sophomore Trayton Cobb, with his 15th place overall sowing in a time of 19:50.14.
“To be where Landon is and still shave off 40 seconds from his PR time in incredible. His focus in practice the last few weeks has been stellar. We had several PRs so I can’t ask for much more than that. As a team, we really made leaps and bounds with where we started and that’s a credit to their hard work.”
Jeremy Lansink, South O’Brien head cross country coach
Neither MMCRU or South O’Brien fielded enough competitors to show up in the team standings as each team had only two runners.
Individually there were only 26 varsity runners in the girls 5K event won by Hinton’s Ava Lang with a time of 21:43.22. George-Little Rock/CL runner Else Kurrle was runner-up with an effort of 23:05.28.Alisa Pajazatovic and Audrey Etter represented MMCRU with Pajazatovic finishing sixth overall with a time of 24:20.98. Etter wound up 12th place with an effort of 25:11.07.
Both South O’Brien runners finished 24th and 25th place respectively. They were Hailei Wallinga and Tricia Kilts.
Team wise only three War Eagle Conference school’s fielded enough runners to figure in the team race won by Hinton with a 33 team score. Runner-up went to George-Little Rock/CL with 35 and LeMars Gehlen wound up third with a team score of 56.
