Lady Wildcats just miss 3rd in Allegan County C-C meet

Despite their youth, freshmen Ava Makowski of Wayland sophomore teammate Olivia Barabas and Helena Kerber of Hopkins went 3-4-5 in the annual Allegan County cross-country meet Tuesday at the U.S.-131 Motorsports Park.

Unfortunately, their teams, Wayland, Hopkins and Martin, settled for 4-5-6 in the team standings. The Lady Wildcats had 63 points, just missing third place by a point, Hopkins had 123 and Martin 153. The Lady ‘Cats were only 11 points away from first place.

Wayland boys finished fifth and Martin’s guys sixth. Otsego won the boys’ competition with 39 points and Hamilton took the girls’ meet with 52.

Makowski finished in 20:42.03, about a second and a half faster than teammate Barabas. Kerber’s time was 21:04.39.

Rounding out the Wayland scoring were freshman Elliot Antel in 17th, junior Hannah Smith in 21^st and sophomore Emma Thayer in 30^th. For Hopkins, it was sophomore Neveah Helderop in 24^th, freshman Abigail Zalis 28^th, Maddi Houseman 47^th and MaKenna Pendock 49^th.

Mercedes Morin lef Martin with a 25^th-place finish, Aiala Zamanillo 36^th, Zoie Tuinstra 37^th, Chloe Billington 41^st and Amy Harris 43^rd.

Freshman Isaac Dyer continued his sensational running by placing 10^th with a five-kilometer time of 18:14.06 and sophomore teammate Travis Koon was right behind him in 11^th at 18:42.82. Freshman Casey Jansen was 25^th sophomore Devin Weaver 30^th and freshman Cainon Fenn 38^th.

Carsen Young led Martin in 28^th with a time of 19:32.08, Eli Dykstra was 39^th, James Blackburn 41^st, Kyle Pallett 42^nd and Malakai Vanvolkinburg 59^th.

Adam Ball was 40^th for Hopkins, Caleb Beilby 52^nd. Zachary Wisser 67^th and Dean Heiden 68^th.