The Wayland girls’ varsity cross-country team scored its first invitational victory of the season Wednesday by finishing first in their own tournament.

The Lady Wildcats, who were runners-up in their other two invitationals earlier this month, won the seven-team competition with 34 points. Hamilton was second with 56 points, Allegan third at 60, Hopkins fourth at 61, Wyoming fifth at 155 and Martin and Fennville did not field five runners in order to record a team score.

The Wayland boys were fourth and Hopkins third in the eight-team field. Allegan won with 41, Hamilton had 42, Hopkins 73 and Wayland 78. The Vikings’ Todd Henley was individual medalist with a time of 17:25.81.

Wayland junior ace Rylee Cronkright, who also was runner-up in the first two invitationals this season, was individual champion with a time of 21:19.79, about 50 seconds faster than sophomore Bella Charon of Hamilton.

Senior Jasmine Fisher of Hopkins took third with a time of 22:20.95.

Four Wayland runners finished among the top five. Junior Gracie Hasse was fifth, sophomore Naomi Oosterhouse sixth, senior Zoe Antel eighth and freshman Haylee Jasinski rounded out the scoring in 16^th.

Hopkins senior Laura Velderman finished 11^th, Alyssa Beilby was 11^th, Alexis Zalis 20^th and Gracie DeZeeuw 24^th.

Sophomore Sara Tyrell led Martin’s four runners in 18^th, Esther Tyrell 40^th, Zoie Tuinstra 46^th and Amy Harris 50^th.

Dan Rausch was second among the Vikings boys with a time of 19:40, good for ninth. Jake Pastoor was was 23^rd, Joe Ludlam 29^th and Jared Bowman 36^th.

Ian Russell paced the Wildcats with a 12^th-place finish and sophomore Elijah Gamelin was right behind him in 13^th. Steven Mosher was 20^th, Jarod Geerligs 24^th and Andrew VanBaal 30^th.

It was too bad Martin did not field a full team because it would have stacked up very well in the team competition. Sophomore Carsen Young was impressive in seventh place with a time of 19:24.45, teammate Kyle Pallett was 17^th and freshman Eli Dykstra 26^th.