SWC gets edge over KHS

Two cross country heavyweights went at it at the annual Kingfisher Cross Country Invitational on Saturday morning.

In the end, Southwest Covenant had enough to hold off the host Lady Jackets for the team championship.

Southwest Covenant, the defending Class A state champion, scored 22 points to beat KHS and its 33 points.

The two teams combined to have the first 11 individual finishers.

Southwest Covenant’s Berkley Jackson won the race as she finished the soggy one-mile course in 5:19.38.

Kingfisher’s Scout Snodgrass was second in 5:46.06 as she edged the Patriots’ Allie Sheppard by just .25 second.

Kingfisher’s Addison Price passed three Southwest Covenant runners in the final 150 meters to place fourth in 6:09.74.

Also for Kingfisher, Harper Evans was eighth, Mattie Slezickey ninth, Hinsley Brodrick 10th and Ryann Farrar 11th. Lily Lunsford, in her first race of the season, was 13th.

Southwest Covenant also won the boys team title with just 18 points.

The Patriots’ Carter Den-nis won the two-mile race in 10:18.85.

Cashion’s Cole Baustert was fifth in 11:01.77.

Wyatt Long of Kingfisher took 10th as he crossed the finish line in 11:40.29. The Jackets’ Chance Dunn was 17th in 12:24.29.

Cashion’s Hattie Wood was the runaway winner of the junior high girls’ race.

Wood ran the one-mile course in 6:03.97, nearly 33 seconds faster than the runner-up.

Olyvia Cooper and Brailyn Schroeder cracked the top-five for Kingfisher.

Cooper ran third in 6:39.44 and Schroeder fifth in 6:50.59.

Also in the top 10 were Ximena Ponce (7th) for Kingfisher and Allie Kastner (8th) for Cashion.

Channing Dunn was the runner-up in the junior high boys race.

The Kingfisher runner completed the mile course in 5:50.89 and was on the heels of the winner, Kaden Bautista of Hinton (5:50.05).

Kingfisher and Cashion saw runners place 14th through 17th as well.

Kingfisher’s Seth Marshall, Maverick Stebens and Cohen Wallace were 14th, 16th and 17th, respectively.

Brantley Coleman was 15th for Cashion.