Just a couple weeks out from the Region VI Championships, the Barton men’s cross country team had a good preview of the teams they will be seeing at the event.
Barton finished 12th at the Fort Hays State Tiger Open held at the Sand Plum Nature Trail in nearby Victoria. The meet featured several region schools the Cougars will see in Hutchinson on Oct. 29.
Allen County won the meet with 60 points followed by Cowley College with 136. Trinidad State (Colo) was third with a 136 as well but lost on the tiebreaker.
Barton finished with 320 points, 7th among the 10 region schools posting a team total in the Black race. The Black race was comprised of 2-year schools as well as some NAIA schools in the area.
Leading the way for Barton was Olathe freshman Sam Hengeli. Hengeli has paced the Cougars in every meet this season, taking 25th at the Tiger Open. Hengeli ran a 26:32.5 to earn the Top 25 placing.
Ignacio Calderon, a freshman form Dodge City, also turned in a good race, taking 68th in the field of nearly 200 runners with a 27:43.3.
A pair of Barton runners finished just outside 100 as Corban Ogle and Felix Marquez took 101st and 116th. Ogle, a freshman from Texas, ran a 28:25.5 to finish 101st while Dodge City freshman Marquez ran 28:50.0.
It was two more minutes before Treavon Ware and Lukas Tucker crossed the finish line the 8K race. Ware, the only sophomore on the team, ran 30:56.1 while Tucker ran a 30:58.0.
Javon Patterson rounded out the Barton team with a 32:15.3.
Barton will be off until the Region VI meet. The race will take place at the Westar/Prairie Ridge Park.

Fort Hays Tiger Open
Black Race – 8K
Team Scores
1 Allen County 60
2 Cowley County 136
3 Trinidad State 136
4 Colby 147
5 Highland 156
6 McPherson 166
7 Iowa Western 185
8 Hutchinson 220
9 Friends 259
10 Kansas Wesleyan 262
11 Garden City 308
12 Barton 320
13 Pratt 323
14 Sterling 330
15 Cloud County 353
16 Johnson & Wales 365
17 Dodge City 392
18 Tabor 467
19 Northwest Oklahoma 529

Individual Top 10
1 Elias Gedyon, Trinidad St, 24:43.9
2 Thobile Mosito, 25:03.8
3 Daniel Haynes, Trinidad St, 25:15.5
4 Phillip Lagemann, Allen, 25:50.3
5 Anthony Glasgow, Allen, 25:53.5
6 Jorge Guerrero, Highland, 26:00.4
7 Alfredo Vega, Pratt, 26:01.9
8 Abel Ketema, Colby, 26:06.7
9 David Sheppard, Adams St, 26:08.8
10 Connor Wright, Cowley, 26:11.4

Barton results
25 Samuel Hengeli, 26:32.5
68 Ignacio Calderon, 27:43.2
101 Corban Ogle, 28:25.5
116 Felix Marquez, 28:50.9
166 Treavon Ware, 30:56.1
169 Lukas Tucker, 30:58.0
177 Javon Patterson, 32:15.3