Lady Hornets sweep first home XC meet
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | September 23, 2020
The Wellsboro Cross Country team hosted a quad meet for their first home race on Tuesday, September 22.
The Lady Hornets swept the competition scoring two 15-50 wins over South Williamsport and Sullivan County and beat Cowanesque Valley, 20-40. The Wellsboro boys lost 15-50 against all three schools due to less than 5 runners.
Sophomore Havah Simcox won the girls race in 24:36, junior Madeline Bryant (25:16) was 3rd, sophomore Julia DeCamp (25:27) was 4th, and senior Aislinn Hoose (25:55) was 5th. Sophomore Madeline Gage (26:53) was 7th overall, freshman Emily Morris (28:21) was 8th, freshman Maddy Callahan (28:50) was 10th, and freshman Madison Robbins (29:14) was 11th.
In the boys race senior Aidan Fletcher was the top finisher in 9th with a time of 20:56 and was followed closely behind by junior Gabe Guignard (21:00) in 10th. Junior Liam Manning (24:30) was 19th and senior Anthony Dunkel (28:41) was 23rd.
In the Middle School races the Lady Hornets were defeated by Sullivan County and South Williamsport 15-50 and the boys lost 15-50 to South Williamsport.
Joseph Busch was 4th overall in 11:42 with Christopher Greenawalt in 6th (12:22). Brooke Wheeler (15:41), Makenna Robbins (15:42), and Kristina Belz (16:32) finished 8-10th in the girls race and Paige Murdock (20:19) came home in 17th.
The teams are back in action on Tuesday, September 29 at Troy.
Ed Weaver is the owner of Circle W Sports in Wellsboro, PA, is the Sports Director for The Home Page Network and the creator of WellsboroAthletics.com and WellsboroFootball.com. You can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.
