CHARITON — Three PCM freshmen and a sophomore earned medals at the Chariton Cross Country Invitational on Thursday.
Led by Abi Teeter, PCM’s girls’ cross country team scored a third-place finish. Coby DeRaad was the top male Mustang and he led the squad to a fifth-place mark.
Teeter was fifth in the girls’ 5K race and she hit the finish line in 21 minutes, 29.82 seconds.
DeRaad came in 11th in the boys’ race with a time of 18:38.64.
Class 2A No. 5 Albia won the girls’ meet title with 16 points. The first four finishers were Blue Demons. Davis County scored 64 points in second and the rest of the six-team field featured PCM (88), Cardinal (106), Wayne (113) and Pleasantville (141).
Southeast Warren, Twin Cedars, Chariton and East Union had incomplete teams.
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Class 2A No. 19 Makenna Montgomery of Albia won the girls’ race in 19:51.24. Class 2A No. 10 Serene Thompson of Albia was the runner-up in 20:38.66.
After Teeter for the PCM girls were Makayla True in 14th and Reagan Vannoy in 15th. True finished the race in 22:26.04 and Vannoy was clocked in 22:46.76.
The other two scoring runners for PCM were Riley DeVore (25:33.01) in 32nd and Alyce Engle (26:12.07) in 38th. Jillian Fairbanks (26:44.62) and Alexis Fagg (27:05.46) were the non-scoring runners in 42nd and 45th, respectively.
Host Chariton won the boys’ meet title with 27 points. The Chargers were 3-4-5-6 in the final standings.
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Albia was the runner-up with 44 points, while Davis County (66), Wayne (122), PCM (135) and Pleasantville (137) completed the six-team field.
The incomplete teams were Southeast Warren, East Union, Cardinal, Moravia and Moulton-Udell.
Southeast Warren’s Ronan Jimenez won the boys’ race in 17:19.09. Albia’s Ethan Stalzer was the runner-up in 17:39.64.
After DeRaad for the PCM boys was Charlie Ford in 41st with a time of 21:23.34. The other scoring runners were Carson Taylor (21:37.8) in 47th, Wyatt Vannoy (22:08.65) in 52nd and Leighton McClure (22:09.18) in 54th.
The non-scoring runners were Carter Dudley (24:31.28) in 73rd and Jacob Buys (26:48.91) in 81st.
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