PLEASANTVILLE — The PCM cross country teams traveled to Pleasantville on Sept. 13 and came home with a team championship and plenty of individual success.
Senior Megan Townley and sophomore Beau Webb claimed individual championships to lead each squad, and the girls brought home a team trophy as the Mustangs placed their five scoring runners in the first 12 positions.
The PCM girls won the team title with 28 points, edging Saydel by three. Wayne was third with 65 points.
Saydel won the boys’ title with 41 points, but PCM (58) edged Martensdale-St. Marys (62) by four points for second.
Wayne finished fourth with 69 points, and host Pleasantville (121) was fifth in the five-team field.
Townley won the girls’ 5K race in 21 minutes, 20.82 seconds. She was a little more than 14 seconds faster than junior Klaire Jungling, who placed second overall with a time of 21:35.26.
Webb’s winning time in the boys’ 5K was clocked at 17:30.90.
Junior teammate Jason Stafford was third overall with a time of 17:56.26.
All seven varsity girl runners came across the finish line in the first 23 positions. The three other scoring runners were seniors Kirstin Ives and Hannah Bouwkamp and sophomore Margo Chipps.
Ives was eighth with a time of 22:55.83, Bouwkamp finished 11th in 23:05.12 and Chipps finished 12th with a time of 23:25.89.
The final two varsity runners were sophomore Emma George and junior Hannah McCarthy.
George finished 17th and McCarthy was 23rd.
The next best finishers for PCM were junior Natalie Smith in 25th, freshman Taryn Steenhoek in 26th and senior Sara Dudley in 32nd.
Webb and Stafford led the Mustang boys, but Saydel won the meet after placing its first four runners in the top 10.
The Mustang boys weren’t quite as strong at the top as the Eagles. PCM’s third finisher was sophomore Cody Courtney. He was 16th with a time of 19:34.26.
Junior Ayrton Breckenridge was 18th in 19:50.35 and the final scoring runner was freshman Diego Cavanzon in 20th. Cavanzon crossed the finish line in 20:26.89.
The final two varsity finishers were freshmen Ethan Domina and Kyle Sanders, who were 23rd and 24th, respectively. They were separated by around six seconds.
Sophomore Garin Padget placed 25th, sophomore Dylan Masterson was 26th and senior Carson Clark finished 28th.
The Mustangs host their annual meet at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 at Gateway Recreation Golf Course in Monroe.