Boggs, boys take 2nd

SELMA — Joseph Boggs had his winning streak come to an end.

But he wasn’t far off the pace.

Boggs finished as the runner-up Friday night in leading the Jay County Junior High School eighth grade boys cross country team to a second-place finish in the Selma Invitational. 

The Patriot seventh grade boys finished fourth out of nine teams. The girls did not have enough runners for a team score.

Boggs, who had won four consecutive races, posted a time of 11 minutes, 11.2 seconds in the 3K race. Jackson Bradley of Selma won the event in 11:05, as he and Boggs were the only runners to break the 12-minute mark.

Raif Beiswanger took third place in 12:03.4 to lead the Jay County seventh grade boys, and Alexis Sibray led the way for the Patriot girls with a fifth-place finish in 13:42.4.

Max Klopfenstein followed Boggs for the Patriot eighth graders by placing 18th in 14:07.2, and Seth Bee was 21s in 14:18.2. Jacob Kellog (14:29.8) and William Hawbaker (14:34) were 25th and 26, respectively. 

Emily Young (13:58) and Paityn Wendel (13:58.9) joined Sibray in the top 10 in the girls race as they took eighth and ninth, respectively. Kaitlyn Fisher was 16th in 15:09.8.

For Jay County’s seventh grade boys, Beckett Brandonburg was seventh in 12:47.6, and Dougie Cox finished 14th in 13:15.2. Rocky Beiswanger posted a time of 14:33.9 for 29th place, and Carter Hartman finished in 16:24 for 47th place.

Also running for Jay County were David Keen (32nd) in the eighth grade race and Caden Billington (52nd) in the seventh grade race.