Wildcat girls 5th at Allegan X-C Invitational, boys 9th

The Wayland girls’ varsity cross-country team placed fifth among 12 teams in the Allegan Invitational Saturday.

The boys’ squad finished ninth among a dozen teams with 237 points. Lowell won that race with 35.

The Lady Wildcats accumulated 125 points. Lowell won with 55, Grand Rapids Covenant Christian was runner-up and host Allegan third.

Junior Rylee Cronkright captured fifth place on the Allegan County fairgounds five-kilometer course with a time of 20:36. Senior Zoe Antel was 18^th in 21:32.6, just two-tenth of a second away from 17^th and less than a second slower than 16^th.

Junior Gracie Hasse checked in 23^rd, freshman Haylee Jasinski was 29^th and freshman Mackenzie VanderWeide was 51^st.

Senior Meg Scheske was individual medalist with a time of 19:01.6.

Junior Ian Russell paced the Wildcat boys in 40^th place with a time of 19:21.7 and Jarod Geerligs was right behind him in 41^st in 19:22.1.

Sophomore Andrew VanBaal was 67^th, Christian Courser was 70^th and Steven Mosher 75^th.