Gracie Sawyer’s top 10 finish helped lead Lomega back to the state cross country meet.

Sawyer placed ninth and the team was fourth Saturday in a Class A regional on the Oklahoma Bible Academy campus in Enid.

The top five teams advanced from the regional to this week’s state meet at Carl Albert.

Top-ranked Laverne was the regional champ with 21 points while Okeene, ranked fourth, was the runner- up with 41.

Also moving on were Mooreland with 65 points and in third place as well as Boise City, which was fifth with 93.

Lomega notched 85 points.

A sophomore, Sawyer ran the two-mile course in 13:24.6 and her placement among the top 15 made her a medalist.

She was eighth among runners scoring points for their respective teams.

Claire Myers was next for Lomega as she was 21st overall and accounted for 16 points. She crossed the finish in 14:20.9.

Olivia Landreth and Josey Nusz were Lomega’s other scorers.

Landreth was 43rd and scored 29 points while Nusz was 47th and accounted for 32 points.

Also for Lomega, Joann Bilger was 58th and Jackie Penaran 65th.

Class A girls will have the first race of the day at state.

Lomega, ranked 12th, and the rest of the state field will begin at 8:30 a.m.

The boys team fell one place below being a state qualifier, but will send two runners to state.

The Raiders were sixth overall with 106 points.

The fifth place and last qualifying team, Cheyenne, scored 75 points.

However, Hunter Rus- sell and Traevon Smith-Dunn will be running this weekend.

Russell was 16th overall and Smith-Dunn 21st, making them among the 12 best finishers from non-qualifying teams.

Russell completed the 5K course in 18:32.8 while Smith-Dunn finished in 19:13.6.

Also scoring for the Raiders were Breckon Murray, who was 48th and scored 35 points, and Uriel Giacomelli, who was 54th and scored 39.

Ulises Aguilar finished 62nd for the Raiders while Cal Krittenbrink was 63rd.

The Class A boys will run at 9 a.m. Saturday.