LAKE BARTON – Hard training paid dividends as the Great Bend Middle School seventh-grade boys placed first (44) and the eighth-grade boys (45), seventh-grade girls (47) and eighth-grade girls (42) placed runner-up at the Sept. 3 Great Bend cross country meet.

Omar Razo (6:09.4) led the seventh-grade boys with a third-place finish. Great Bend runner-up Teegan Guerra (6:37.1) sparked the seventh-grade girls.

Panther Tavon Stroup (12:35.4) placed third in the eighth-grade division. Panther Sienna Smith (14:23.3) finished runner-up in the eighth-grade girls race.

Teams competing were Dodge City, Dodge City Comanche, Garden City Horace Good, Garden City Ken Henderson, Hays, Hoisington and Buhler’s Prairie Hills.

The eighth-grade runners competed on a 2-mile course and the seventh-graders ran one mile.

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7TH BOYS MEDALIST—1—Gavin Lindahl, Prairie Hills, 5:13.6

7TH BOYS TEAM—1—Great Bend 44; 2—Dodge City 55

1—GBMS 7TH BOYS—3—Omar Razo, 6:09.4; 7—Juan Arias, 6:19.9; 8—Dustin Fugitt, 6:23.8; 12—David Fry, 6:43.3; 14—Eli Somers, 6:49.4; 15—Jackson Young, 6:55.5; 22—Alan Carrillo, 7:06.8; 24—Gavin VanSkike, 7:07.0; 30—Dayton Howard, 7:31.9; 38—Julian Ordonez, 7:57.3

7TH GIRLS MEDALIST—1—Makayla Lewallen, Hays, 6:16.2

7TH GIRLS TEAM—1—Prairie Hills 31; 2—Great Bend 47

2—GBMS 7TH GIRLS—2— Teegan Guerra, 6:37.1; 13—Jimena Montes, 7:33.4; 15—Greidys Moreno, 7:36.9; 20—Teah King, 7:52.8; 21—Camryn Moos, 7:54.9

8TH BOYS MEDALIST—1—Dominic Hernandez, Hays, 11:56.3

8TH BOYS TEAM—1—GC Horace Good 43; 2—Great Bend 45

2—GBMS 8TH BOYS—3— Tavon Stroup, 12:35.4; 5—Brantley Vsetecka, 12:46.4; 11—Ismael Ramirez, 13:20.9; 12—Ethan Somers, 12:26.5; 15—Joshua Manning, 14:06.9; 29—Brodie Bainbridge, 15:37.6; 30—John Landers, 16:04.6

8TH GIRLS MEDALIST—1—Aralen Maupin, Hays, 14:14.1

8TH GIRLS TEAM—1—Hays 28; 2—Great Bend 42

2—GBMS 8TH GIRLS-- 2—Sienna Smith, 14:23.3; 4—Addyson Bruce, 14:59.5; 13—Aliya Johnson, 16:28.1; 14—Kaylea McMullen, 16:47.3; 22—Josephine Blevins, 18:10.9