July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Jay Co. wins 6th straight OAC crown
JCHS cross country
ANDERSON - The Jay County High School girls cross country team walked away with another Olympic Athletic Conference title Tuesday and four Patriots brought home all-conference honors from the meet at Mounds State Park.
The JCHS girls, led by All-OAC efforts from Leah Wellman, Katie Simmons and Kari Hemmelgarn, took six of the top eight positions and scored 23 points to easily distance runner-up Connersville (52) for its sixth straight conference title. Anderson Highland (65) scored 65 for third place and Muncie Southside (110) was fourth.
Tevan Nichols led the boys, who do not have enough runners for a team score, to pick up an all-conference away.
Southside earned the conference title with 27 points followed by Highland (32) and Connersville (65).
Wellman set the pace for the Patriots (50-11) with a runner-up finish in 21 minutes, 47 seconds. Jenna Cox of Connersville won the OAC title at 21:19.
Simmons followed Wellman in third place in 22:05, and the next four JCHS runners finished in succession. Hemmelgarn was fifth in 22:29 followed by Logan Laux ( 22:43), Megan Taylor (22:53) and Liz Lennartz (23:07). Julie Valentine placed 13th in 25:27.
Nichols matched his third-place finish at Saturday's Jay County Invitational with a time of 17:28 Tuesday.
Highland's Douglas Taylor won the conference title in 16:55.
Dylan Cope was 15th in 19:35 for the Patriots, and Zach Johnson was 23rd in 23:39.[[In-content Ad]]
The JCHS girls, led by All-OAC efforts from Leah Wellman, Katie Simmons and Kari Hemmelgarn, took six of the top eight positions and scored 23 points to easily distance runner-up Connersville (52) for its sixth straight conference title. Anderson Highland (65) scored 65 for third place and Muncie Southside (110) was fourth.
Tevan Nichols led the boys, who do not have enough runners for a team score, to pick up an all-conference away.
Southside earned the conference title with 27 points followed by Highland (32) and Connersville (65).
Wellman set the pace for the Patriots (50-11) with a runner-up finish in 21 minutes, 47 seconds. Jenna Cox of Connersville won the OAC title at 21:19.
Simmons followed Wellman in third place in 22:05, and the next four JCHS runners finished in succession. Hemmelgarn was fifth in 22:29 followed by Logan Laux ( 22:43), Megan Taylor (22:53) and Liz Lennartz (23:07). Julie Valentine placed 13th in 25:27.
Nichols matched his third-place finish at Saturday's Jay County Invitational with a time of 17:28 Tuesday.
Highland's Douglas Taylor won the conference title in 16:55.
Dylan Cope was 15th in 19:35 for the Patriots, and Zach Johnson was 23rd in 23:39.[[In-content Ad]]
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