Sawyer, Russell lead Lomega’s state XC contingent

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Sawyer, Russell lead Lomega’s state XC contingent

Sawyer, Russell lead Lomega’s state XC contingent

Lomega wrapped up its season with a 10th place finish Saturday in the Class A girls state cross country meet.

The Lady Raiders were led by Gracie Sawyer, who placed 24th overall out of 119 runners at Carl Albert.

She was 19th among runners scoring points for their teams and ran the two-mile course in 13:11.90.

TwoofLomega’srunners - quite literally - could have been running on fumes.

Claire Myers and Olivia Landreth were part of the Lomega FFA’s national championship agricultural issues forum team.

That group was in Indianapolis, Ind., much of the week and Myers and Landreth flew home Friday immediately after learning they had won the national title.

They arrived home around 9 p.m. Friday and left for the meet before 6 a.m. Saturday.

Myers placed 78th and scored 44 points. She finished in 14:42.94.

Landreth was 101st and notched 64 points while running it in 15:23.14.

Finishing between them was Josey Nusz, who was 89th overall with her time of 15:07.46. She accounted for 53 points.

Joann Bilger was 106th in 15:41.77 and Jackie Peñaran 110th in 16:02.28.

Lomega scored 180 points, three better than Kremlin-Hillsdale in 11th.

Regent Prep won the state title with just 26 points.

Laverne was the state runner-up with 53 and Balko-Forgan scored 64 to place third.

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Two Raiders competed in the Class A boys state meet.

Hunter Russell was 77th out of 118 competitors and ran the 5K course in 18:52.31.

Traevon Smith-Dunn finished in 19:40.79, which was good for 94th place.