The Buhler High School girls cross country team captured the varsity Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Division III championship Monday with 15 points.
Rose Hill High School hosted the meet at Winfield.
Buhler’s top runner was Aneesa Courson, who placed sixth overall (first AVCTL III) with a 5K time of 22 minutes, 23.29 seconds.
Hadley Statkweather placed 12th overall (second AVCTL 3), 23:45.34; Emma Smith 13th overall (third AVCTL III), 24:01.92; Haylee Kinast, 14th overall (fourth AVCTL III), 24:13.93; Nora Busenbark 16th overall (sixth AVCTL III), 26:26.50; Jillian Gray, 17th overall, 26:27.31; and Tessa Shaw, 19th overall, 27:39.13.
The Buhler girls also placed first in the junior varsity race with 15 points.
After Towanda-Circle’s Bennet Scribner placed first (25:30.72), Buhler runners Olivianna Mendenhall (26:16.28), Evey Brooks (26:26.9), Harleigh Board (27:36.46), Ayanna Ulloa (28:16.08), Olivia Ellington (28:48.76), Lena Gleason (29:48.23) and Mira Koptieva (31:10.58) placed second through eighth overall and second through seventh in the AVCTL III JV girls competition.
The Buhler boys placed fourth in the AVCTL III team standings with 72 points. Winfield won the AVCTL III team title with 17 points.
Mulvane and Circle tied for second place with 70 points. Mulvane winning the tiebreaker for second place because it had six runners and Circle had five.
Buhler was paced by Silas Nowlan, who placed ninth with a time of 18:01.99, followed by Landes Little, 11th, 18:04.84; Samuel Hougham, 14th, 18:27.42; Joel Penrose, 15th, 18:37.26; Tristan Black, 23rd, 21:15.25; and Brock McClintock, 21:25.
Butler’s Eli Hershberger placed sixth in the AVCTL III junior varsity boys 5K race with a time of 21:01.13. Ashler Koster placed 18th in 23:40.82 and Taiden Torres was 21st in 24:55.41.
Augusta won the AVCTL III JV team competition with 21 points, followed by McPherson 39 and Towanda-Circle 65.
McPherson’s top JV boys runner was Micah Foster, who placed fifth with a time of 20:56.01, followed by TylerEk, 11th, 21:54.75; Cooper Hicks, 12th, 22:03.57; and Charlie Unruh, 15th, 22:41.61.
