Three Hopkins girls place in top 10 at Coach B Invite

The Hopkins girls’ cross-country team had a pretty good day Monday at the annual Coach B Yankee Springs Invitational, taking second in the Kellogg Division.

The Lady Vikings had three place among the top 10 with sophomore Helena Kerber third in 21:28.39, freshman Kambria Moored fifth and sophomore Jaeden Harshberger ninth. Hopkins’ 48 points was 20 back of an outfit called “GR FIRE.”

Neveah Helderop was 11^th and Abigail Zalis 25^th to round out the scoring.

Meanwhile, Wayland junior ace Olivia Barabas checked in sixth with a five-kilometer time of 20:49.95 to lead a Wildcat squad that finished fifth in the Thornapple Division. Sophomore Elliot Antel was 28th, senior Hannah Smith 29^th, Mackenzie VanderWeide 43^rd and junior Emily Tuinstra 50^th.

The Wayland boys captured fourth place in the boys’ Thornapple Division race. Devin Weaver was 12^th in 17:46.76, Isaac Dyer 21^st, Travis Koon 24^th, freshman Dylan Pallett 29^th and Henry Oudbier 31^st.

Caledonia won the race with a perfect score of 15 by copping all of the first five places.

Senior Adam Ball crossed the finish line fourth for Hopkins in 19:08, to pace the Vikings’ third place effort among three teams. Caleb Beilby was 14^th, frshman Kenyon Katje 18^th, Nathan Onderlinde 20^th and freshman Ryan Williams 21^st.