There was plenty of area school representation on Tuesday in Mount Pleasant for their annual cross country meet. 

For the second time in as many meets, Washington’s Lance Sobaski took home the gold for the large class boys’ division clocking in at 17:00.21 to beat the second place runner by 39 seconds. The junior helped the Demons to a fourth place finish out of five with 71 points while Mount Pleasant won with 46. Three other Demons cracked the top 20 with Micah Rees in 12th (19:09), Cameron Vongpanya 17th (19:40), and Drew Horak 19th (19:53). The Columbus boys placed second out of nine in the small class with 76 points and Danville ran away with the title with 17. Isaac Acosta was strong once again in fifth (18:09) and Damian Vergara tallied 15th (19:09). Winfield-Mt. Union placed third with 112 points and Dane Sweezer was 13th individually (19:06) with teammate Gabe Hemsworth right behind in 14th (19:08). Lone Tree’s top performer was Nick Saltzman in 23rd (19:34) and WACO’s Wyatt Dennis was 37th (21:17).

Washington made some noise on the large school girls’ side in second with 55 points while the host Panthers had 37. Hannah Rees impressed with a fifth place finish in 22:23, Grace Voss was 11th (23:11), and freshman Abby Kleese was 12th (23:14). No other area schools recorded a team score, but Winfield-Mt. Union’s Avery Maeder crossed the finish line in 18th (25:37), Columbus’ Avery Sipes was 22nd (26:04), and WACO’s Hannah Dennis tallied 31st (28:03).