Wilkins, Hosbond lead C-M harriers at Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG — Sullivan Wilkins finished in the top 20 and Ashlynn Hosbond led the Colfax-Mingo girls cross country team against a stacked field at the Williamsburg Invitational on Tuesday.

The Tigerhawks faced 10 ranked girls’ teams and seven teams ranked on the boys’ side at the Williamsburg Sports Complex.

Wilkins headlined the squads with a 20th-place finish in the boys’ 5K race, and Hosbond led the girls in 31st.

Class 3A No. 3 Mount Vernon-Lisbon won the boys’ meet title with 40 points. Class 3A No. 2 Pella (55), 3A No. 9 Bondurant-Farrar (132), Vinton-Shellsburg (156) and 2A No. 6 Pella Christian (193) completed the top five.

The rest of the top 10 included 2A No. 14 Tipton (200), 3A No. 17 Carlisle (205), Williasmburg (236), 1A No. 9 Lynnville-Sully (241) and Solon (266).

Four other South Iowa Cedar League schools were in the field as English Valleys (434), HLV/TC (606), North Mahaska (609) and Colfax-Mingo (622) were 15th, 20th, 22nd and 23rd, respectively.

Class 3A No. 7 Dawson Scheil of Mount Vernon-Lisbon won the boys’ 5K race in 16 minutes, 4.6 seconds.

Class 3A No. 18 Barrett Jesina of South Tama County was the runner-up in 16:22.96.

Mount Vernon-Lisbon put its top three finishers in the first seven positions, while Pella went 8-9-10-11.

Wilkins’ 20th-place time was clocked in 17:41.17. Ryan Moore (23:49.08) finished 145th, Willie Fitzgerald (23:51.60) placed 146th and Benjamin Faidley (23:53.47) was 147th. The final scoring runner was Asher Knutson (30:49.01) in 164th and Milo Knutson (31:27.74) was a non-scoring runner in 165th.

Hosbond’s 31st-place time was clocked in 21:04.09. Ivy Anderson (25:36.45) placed 115th, Sahara Buenrostro (25:40.46) finished 117th, Lilyan Hadsall (26:19.98) was 120th and Mallory Sipma (26:26.35) took 122nd as the other scoring runners. Jessica Gibson (27:21.47) was a non-scoring runner in 135th.

Class 2A No. 2 McKenna Montgomery of Albia won the girls’ race in 18:07.7. Class 3A No. 5 Evelyn Moeller of Mount Vernon-Lisbon was the runner-up in 18:16.01.

Pella won the meet title with 46 points. The Class 3A No. 1 Lady Dutch went 4-7-8-14-15 to win easily.

Class 3A No. 3 Mount Vernon-Lisbon (80), 3A No. 7 Solon (123), 3A No. 16 Williamsburg (143) and 2A No. 9 Pella Christian (229) completed the top five.

Class 2A No. 7 Albia (246), 2A No. 17 Tipton (251), 4A No. 15 Clinton (254), 1A No. 6 Lynnville-Sully (257) and 1A No. 11 English Valleys (275) finalized the top 10.

North Mahaska (333) was 14th, Colfax-Mingo (492) finished 19th and Belle Plaine (625) was 21st.