Woodland girls cross country team captures Ridge Ferry Invitational; Lady Cats' Clymer takes ind
The Woodland varsity girls cross country team dominated the Ridge Ferry Invitational in Rome Saturday. The Lady Cats took five of the top seven places and defeated second place Heritage-Catoosa by 76 points.
Woodland freshman Carli Clymer won the girls’ race in 19:38.15. She edged Bremen’s Grace Clements by just under five seconds.
Bremen girls finished third, followed by Rome and River Ridge.
Cartersville placed 13th in the girls race and Cass did not receive team points. The Lady Colonels fielded only two runners.
Eighteen schools fielded full teams to earn points. There were 134 runners in the girls’ race.
Local runners by team: (time, position)
Carli Clymer, Woodland, 19:38.15 — 1st
Angela Cochran, Woodland, 19:53.90 — 3rd
Lidsay Scifers, Woodland, 20:01.55 — 4th
Cheyenne Spinks, Woodland, 20:13.42 — 5th
Makenna Trapheagen, Woodland, 20:47.37 — 7th
Casey Bolan, Woodland, 22:01.04 — 15th
Grace Webb, Woodland, 23:51.16
Kayla Carpenter, Cartersville, 22:48.82 — 30th Vanna Beach, Cartersville, 23:42.72 — 43rd
Caroline Fahey, Cartersville, 25:04.72 — 70th
Krystinn Dabbs, Cartersville, 26:21.32 — 83rd
Victoria Marino, Cartersville, 27:49.67 — 106th
Katie Tolbert, Cartersville, 28:18.51 — 106th
Julianne Choate, Cartersville, 28:55.61 — 114th
Kaylee Cornelius, Cartersville, 29:16.41
Maddie Baggett, Cartersville, 29:45.04 Jayla Cornelius , Cartersville, 29:50.97
Karsen Henry, Cass, 27:02.64
Alex Stodghill, Cass, 32:00.07
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In the Ridge Ferry Invitational boys’ race, Pickens took the championship with 78 points. Calhoun was second with 122 points, followed by Rome, Adairsville, and Cartersville to round out the top five teams.
Woodland finished 7th in the 22-team race. Cass had only four runners and did not post a team score. There were 173 runners in the competition.
Jason Blankenship of Cedartown, a junior, won the 2016 Ridge Ferry Invitational in 17:14.97.
Local runners by team: (time, position)
Bird Leker, Adairsville, 18:43.23 — 22nd Angel Burda, Adairsville, 18:43.85 — 23rd
Tim Bosdell, Adairsville, 18:54.25 — 28th
Jason Burdette, Adairsville, 18:54.27 — 29th
Daniel Sullivan, Adairsville, 19:14.22 — 39th
Jared Tatum, Adairsville, 19:20.91 — 45th
Spencer Rawlins, Adairsville, 20:28.28 — 99th
Jonathan Holloway, Woodland, 18:01.95 — 6th
Jacob Giltz, Woodland, 18:10.19 — 10th Dylan Stermer, Woodland, 18:35.94 — 20th
Noah Warren, Woodland, 19:40.80 — 56th
Stanton Bedwell, Woodland, 20:10.93 — 87th
Reece Mitchell, Woodland, 20:12.54 — 88th
Nick Warren, Woodland, 20:14.81
Robby Earick, Cartersville, 18:10.83 — 11th Andy Sims, Cartersville, 18:22.65 — 16th
Jacob Busek, Cartersville, 19:11.29 — 34th William Matherne, Cartersville, 19:15.25 — 40th Will Pruitt, Cartersville, 19:20.51 — 44th
David Mejia, Cartersville, 19:49.51 — 62nd
Jake Hacker, Cartersville, 20:00.21 — 76th
Clay Ross, Cartersville, 20:01.86
Parker Breedlove, Cartersville, 20:13.94
Derick Smith, Cass, 19:14.22 — 38th
Jacob Shaver, Cass, 20:08.67 — 86th
Nick Poteat, Cass, 20:34.69 — 104th
Michael Shaver, Cass, 21:47.63 — 135th
Woodland hosts the Run at the Rock, Saturday, September 3 at 8:30am. Cass will participate in the event.
Adairsville will participate in the Clara Bowl at Berry College on September 3 at 9am.
