Macksville runner places fifth

VICTORIA – Macksville Mustang Madison Butler (21:01.8) continues to improve with a fifth-place medalist finish at the 1A state cross country meet at the Sand Plum 5K-course. Butler posted her best state time ahead of her ninth-place finish (21:23.3) and her 12th-place finish (21:34.9) the past two years.

Macksville’s girls finished sixth (97).

1A GIRLS VICTORIA

1A GIRLS TEAM SCORES—1—Quinter 60; 2—Doniphan West 79; 3—Pretty Prairie 80; 4—Osborne 85; 5—Topeka Cair Paravel 92; 6—Macksville 97; 7—Ness City 97; 8—Meade 98; 9—Oswego 123; 10—Wichita Classical 128; 11—Kiowa County 130; 12—Axtell 153

TOP 10 GIRLS MEDALISTS—1—Weiner, Golden Plains, 20:04.7; 2—Williams, DW, 20:30; 3—White, PP, 20:35.9; 4—Bailey, Ingalls, 20:54.1; 5—Madison Butler, Macksville, 21:01.8; 6—Doney, Meade, 21:04.4; 7—Bacon, South Haven, 21:11.6; 8—Zarybnicky, Hanover, 21:28.4; 9—Lewis, Cair Paravel, 21:29; 10—Baker, Washington, 21:29.2

MACKSVILLE—36—Abigail Ibarra, 23:17.5; 52—Joselin Garcia, 24;29.6; 64—Sheridyn Black, 25:55.6; 70—Kim Arreola, 27:17.8; 71—Melanie Vargas, 27:21.1

OTIS-BISON—38—Destiny Mitchell, 23:19.9