Hopkins’ Henley takes 3rd in Allegan County X-C meet

Hopkins ace Todd Henley finished third in the annual Allegan County Cross-Country meet Friday at the U.S.-131 Motor Sports Park near Martin.

Henley traversed the five-kilometer race in 16:46.18 to take third behind Corey Gargas and Nik Pettinga of Saugatuck. Gorgas blistered the course in just 15:22.82.

Saugatuck won the boys’ meet with 33 points and Otsego had 53. Hopkins finished fifth with 123 and Wayland was sixth with 168.

Saugatuck also won the girls’ meet with 34 points and Plainwell was second with 69 and Hopkins third at 104. Wayland was fifth with 117, as seven teams competed.

Dan Rauch finished 21^st for the Viking boys, in 17:56.79, Zach Nutter was 37^th, Jake Pastoor 52^nd and Andrew Hazen 62^nd.

For Wayland, Ian Russell finished 42^nd in 19:075.34 and Jarod Geerligs was right behind in 43^rd with a time of 19:07.78. Elijah Gamelin was 50^th Andrew VanBaal 56^th and Christian Curser 61^st.

Sophomore Carsen Young finished 17^th in 17:50.88 and Kyle Pallett was 41^st in 19:04.75, but the Clippers did not have enough runners to field a full team in the scoring.

There were 93 runners in the boys’ competition.

Wayland junior Rylee Cronkright paced her team with a sixth-place finish in 20:13.09 and Jasmine Fisher of Hopkins was ninth in 20:15.93.

Other Lady Vikings placing were Laura Velderman 14^th, Emma Helder 16^th, Alyssa Beilby 32^nd and Alexis Zalis 39^th.

Remaining Lady Wildcat placers were Zoe Antel 20^th, freshman Haylee Jasinski 26^th, Gracie Hasse 28^th and Mackenzie VanderWeide 47^th.

Sara Tyrell finished 56^th for Martin.

There were 88 runners in all.