Pair of Tigerhawks score top-five finishes at Wildwood Park

OTTUMWA — Six career-best times and top-five finishes by Ashlynn Hosbond and Sullivan Wilkins highlighted the Colfax-Mingo cross country teams at Wildwood Park on Thursday.

The Tigerhawks competed in their second meet of the season, and the girls came home with a seventh-place finish in the seven-team field.

Hosbond led C-M with a third-place tally in the girls’ 5K race. She posted a career-best time of 21 minutes, 2.3 seconds.

The Tigerhawks scored 151 points in seventh. That was one point behind Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont (150). Class 1A No. 11 Van Buren won the meet title with 53 points.

The rest of the field included Ottumwa (59), host and 1A No. 20 Pekin (91), Louisa-Muscatine (91) and Fairfield (95).

Ivy Anderson was next for C-M in 35th. She posted a career-best time of 24:07.4. Jessica Gibson (24:52.8), Sahara Buenrostro (26:13.1) and Mallory Sipma (29:34) placed 42nd, 51st and 62nd, respectively.

Gibson’s time was a career best and Buenrostro made her prep debut.

Class 1A No. 2 Chloe Glosser of Pekin won the girls’ race in 18:10.1 and Louisa-Muscatine’s Fiona McGill was the runner-up in 20:25.1. McGill is currently ranked 13th in 1A.

Wilkins led the C-M boys in fifth. His time was clocked in a career-best 17:00. Willie Fitzgerald (21:28.4) and Benjamin Faidley (23:03.4) were 60th and 74th, respectively, with career-best times.

The Tigerhawks did not have enough runners for a team score. Louisa Muscatine’s Hayden Riggan won the race in 16:33.7 and Van Buren’s Lincoln Bainbridge was the runner-up in 16:37.8.

Wilkins cracked the 1A rankings for the first time in his career at No. 21. Riggan is ranked 11th in the class and Bainbridge came into the meet ranked sixth in the latest rankings.

Class 1A No. 10 Louisa-Muscatine won the boys’ meet title with 46 points. Class 1A No. 7 Van Buren (55), 1A No. 13 Pekin (86), Fairfield (110) and Sigourney (130) completed the top five of the 10-team field.