CROSS COUNTRY SECTIONALS BY RUNNING GRETTA

ELKMONT BOYS Section 3 Class 3A CHAMPIONS!  ELKMONT GIRLS Section 3 Class 3A Runner ups!

What a great day to be a Running Red Devil!  The headline says it all!  The EHS cross country team and parents met in the morning to caravan down to Cold Springs High School where the Section 3 meet was held.  The morning was crisp and clear – a perfect day for a run!  The kids were excited, the coaches were nervous and the parents eager to cheer them on!

The course at Cold Springs was sprawled out across their school campus and was very well marked.  The course included wide open spaces, trails and several hills to challenge runners – in short, it was a great cross country course!  There were ample opportunities for spectators to cheer and encourage the runners on! 

The Lady Red Devils ran at 11:30.  As they came around one bend, just past the first mile, our top three girls were running in a little pack!  Then the next two came running close together and then the next two!  Having our runners finish close together like this helps the team score and led the girls to take a SECOND PLACE trophy home!!  This has been the best race of the season for the ladies with 4 new personal records (PR) and 2 season best (SB) performances. 

Elkmont Race Times:

Hannah Hanback – 22:42 (PR)

Sammi Jo Pressnell – 22:47

Jensen Pugh – 22:58 (PR)

Stephanie Clem – 24:25 (SB)

Nikki Ristau – 25:33 (PR)

Maddie Hobbs – 26:18 (SB)

Marianna Cooper – 26:41 (PR)

Alex Green – 27:56

The Red Devils had one lady earn “All Section” honors (Top 10 finisher) – Congratulations to Hannah Hanback!

The boys race began at 12:30 and the Red Devils wanted to own it!  The results speak for themselves – 8 new personal records (PR) and 1 new season best (SB) performance!! 










 Coming out of the first mile, there was an early leader from Winfield, but Tyler Helms was right there with him.  The next opportunity I had to see the runners, Tyler had obtained an impressive lead over the entire field of runners!  He maintained that lead and was the boys race CHAMPION, setting a new school record of 16:44!  Let’s break that down a little bit…his average mile pace is 5 minutes and 23 seconds!  Amazing!  Including Tyler, Elkmont’s boys team had 4 runners under 19 minutes – Adam McMahan, Chance Bailey and Tiyler Walts!  For you non-runners out there – this is HUGE!  Way to go gentlemen!!  

Elkmont Race times:

Tyler Helms – 16:44 (PR)

Adam McMahan – 17:39 (PR)

Chance Bailey – 17:59 (PR)

Tiyler Walts – 18:55 (PR)

Ethan Shores – 20:10 (PR)

Jacob Ezell – 20:11 (PR)

Chandler Johnson – 21:40 (PR)

Alex Armstrong – 23:35

Chase Prater – 23:50 (PR)

Matthew Clem – 27:35 (SB)

Elkmont boys team had 3 earn “All Section” honors (Top 10 finisher) – Congratulations 
                                                          Tyler Helms



             Adam McMahan 

                                               

      

Chance Bailey

Both the girls and boys team are advancing to the State Meet on Saturday, November 10!  The meet will be held in Oakville – a course very familiar to us!  The 3A Girls will be running at 10:30 and the 3A Boys at 11:10.  In all, there will be 10 races that day as Oakville hosts the State Meet for Class 1A – 6A that day!  It would be great to see lots of support for our Running Red Devils on November 10^th!  The more we have yelling and encouraging our runners the better they do!  Get there early – there is usually a delay in getting into the park on race day!  Look for our big red tent and Red Devil flag!