YORKTOWN, Ind. – Hagerstown competed at Yorktown in the Jim Leffler Memorial Cross Country Invitational on Saturday.
The Tigers were second of 15 teams in the boys event, while the girls were fifth.
Kaleb Slagle led the Tiger boys finishing fifth overall in 16:49. Logan Tuttle and Eli Halcomb also captured top-20 medals by placing eighth and 20th respectively.
Holden Robinson was 26th and Dylan Napier 38th in the field of 102 runners to complete Hagerstown’s top five.
Alexander McKee finished 52nd, and Blake Creech landed at 56th.
Seth Richards won the reserve race in 18:29, while teammates Adam Nadler, David Holt and Gage James placed eighth, 48th, and 49th. The Tigers could not score as a team with only four runners.
“On paper, we shouldn’t have been second, but our kids ran very gutsy in the heat,” Hagerstown Head Coach Kent Gray said. “We weren’t going to catch Lawrence North who is a Top-25 team, but I think we showed the rest of the field that we deserve our number four small-school ranking.”
Lawrence North won with 44 points with Hagerstown finishing with 97. The rest of the top five were Muncie Central 125, Greenfield-Central 125 and Wapahani 132.
On the girls side, Logan McRoberts paced the Tigers as she was 21st in 22:24.
Anna Shafer finished 30th, Madison Zetzl 42nd, Maci Matanich 43rd, Bailey Foor 54th, Teresa Rojas 64th and Kassidy Oliger 70th.
The team scores for the girls were Yorktown 33, Lawrence North 33, Pendleton Heights 133, Greenfield Central 166 and Hagerstown 172.