Hurons girls team competes at state meet

November 2, 2013November 4, 2013 Editor featured

4513-CC-team — The Huron girls cross country team at the finish of Saturday's state finals at the Michigan International Speedway. (Photo by Richard Lamb)

by Richard Lamb–Advance Editor

Huron girls braved a muddy course at the Division IV cross country finals in Brooklyn Saturday. The team finished 25 out of 27 teams which qualified for the state finals.

Top finisher freshman was Emily Malocha who placed 84^th overall and 59^th in the team results with a time of 21:25.5.

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She had splits of 6:37 at the one-mile mark, 7:02 for the second mile and 7:12 for the third mile. Other finishers for the Hurons (place, name, time) were: 120, Sami Bober, 23:27.5; 138, Rebecca Myers, 24:16.0; 149, Victoria Bullock, 24:39.9; 154 Amber Wirgau, 25:00.4; 160, Alysse Hempel, 25:22.1; 173, Amber Nowicki, 25:47.4.

Beal City won the team event with a team score of 120 while the Hurons had a team score of 620.

Onaway’s Joe Traynham placed 92nd in the boys’ Division IV race with a time of 18:13.6.

(More details in next week’s edition of the Advance.)