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St. Joseph Catholic dominates Shelbyville Elementary Cross Country Championships

With the top two finishers in each race, St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School completed a dominant performance Monday at the Shelbyville Elementary Cross Country Championships held at Blue River Memorial Park in Shelbyville.

Camden Thomas (photo left) completed the 2,000-meter course in eight minutes, 42 seconds to score a 24-second victory over teammate Bram Kolkmeier (9:06). Harrison Fischer was fourth in 9:32 to help the Lions win the boys’ team competition.

St. Joe’s 24 points topped Loper Elementary (39), Hendricks Elementary (80) and Coulston Elementary (91).

Also finishing in the top 10 for St. Joe were Beckham Lee (8th, 10:04) and Gabriel Telez (9th, 10:09).

Loper’s Carson Claxton finished third overall in 9:24. Also scoring points for the Bulldogs were Henry Rife (6th, 9:52), Chase Mulrooney (7th, 10:00), James Melvin (11th, 10:56) and Jace Tackett (12th, 10:57).

The top-five finishers for Hendricks were Jacob Fewell (5th, 9:50), Caleb Jackson (20th, 12:49), Jordan Monroe (22nd, 13:06), Kingstyn Ash (23rd, 13:06) and Liam Giles (28th, 14:07).

Coulston’s top finisher was Brayden Nigh (10th, 10:35). Also scoring for the Comets were Jaxon Schefee (18th, 11:59), Mason Hubard (25th, 13:22), Justin Butler (29th, 15:31) and Connor Claytor (30th, 15:41).

Jocelyn McFarland (8:59.51) (photo above) and America Leon-Torres (9:00.4) finished 1-2 for St. Joe in the girls race. Abigail Gwinnup was fourth (10:18), Mia Robbins followed in sixth (10:35) and Maggie Kolkmeier was eighth (11:15) to give the Lions 21 team points and the city championship.

Hendricks finished second with Ava White (5th, 10:32), Aria Buis (9th, 11:33), Adrianna St. Bernard (10th, 11:42), Evoni Wright (12th, 12:01) and Hannah Shouse (14th, 12:27) scoring points.

Mia Boger was the third-place finisher (10:11) for Coulston and along with Makayla Tart (7th, 11:07), Delaney Adams (20th, 14:01), Braylynn Sturgill (22nd, 14:15) and Callie Thomas (27th, 17:14) finished third in the team standings.

Loper was fourth with Mila Eads (11th, 11:59), Elena Simmons (16th, 12:45), Mason Smith (19th, 13:59), Madilynn Miles (21st, 14:12) and Olivia Myers (24th, 14:53) scoring points.

 

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