The Buhler High School girls cross country team placed first in Kansas Class 4A girls Division A at the Buhler sub-state Saturday.
The Buhler Crusader girls placed all seven of their runners in the top 14 and dominated with 22 points.
McPherson placed second with 71 points, followed by Rose Hill 90, Andale 96, Chapman 109, Wellington 128 and Ulysses 186.
Winfield won the 4A sub-state boys title with 35 points, followed by Buhler 72, Chapman 80, Rose Hill 87, Pratt 132, Mulvane 138, Hugoton 170 and Concordia 216.
Buhler senior Corbin Starkweather won the 4A regional girls 5K A race with a time of 19 minutes, 12.41 seconds. Chapman’s Liberty Cuevas placed second in 19:45.2.
Buhler’s Isabella Rivera placed third, 20:08.41; Hannah Dick, sixth, 21:10.91; Isabella Friesen, seventh, 21:11.91; Brooklyn Beals, 10th, 21:45.1 and Brynlee Adams, 14th, 22:11.1.
McPherson’s Kamryn Prescott placed eighth with a time of 21:18.1, followed by Adeline Kramer, ninth, 21:24.41; Eliza Jex, 13th, 22:11.1; Ella Wyssman, 16th, 22:12.16; and Molly Owen, 30th, 24:25.2.
The Andale girls placed fourth in the 4A sub-state girls A division with 96 points.
Andale’s Ayvah Banda placed fourth with a time of 20:37.6, followed by Natalee Vogt, 22nd, 23:22.5; Carlin Sellar, 25th, 23:33.8; Lexi Bybee, 27th, 24:09.8; Marlee Lubbers, 32nd, 24:49.2; Natalie Buchanan, 41st, 25:29.5; and Siena Winter, 43rd, 25:55.1.
Mulvane’s Aubrey Teter placed first in the 4A sub-state girls B division with a time of 18:43.3.
Buhler’s Ryan Cherry placed third in the 4A sub-state B race with a time of 17:02.4.
Teammate Zayden Mendenhall placed eighth, 17:33.2; Christian Valle, 19th, 18:33.3; Derek Petz, 20th, 18:34.5; Graham McCarty 22nd, 18:46.3; Logan Johnson 26th, 18:57.6; and Noah Napier, 34th, 19:48.91.
The Andale boys placed first in the 4A boys A Division race with 22 points and McPherson placed second with 73.
Andale placed six runners in the top 111, led by regional champion Dustin Buchanan, who posted a 5K time of 16:48.
Roman Lubbers, Cade Brown, Sam Pavelski, William Parks and Levi Schmidt placed third, fourth, fifth, ninth and 11th with times of 17:08.2, 17:08.91, 17:23.3, 18:06.41 and 18:08.41. Andale’s Rhett Romero placed 31st in 19:05.2.
McPherson’s Tripp Pelzel and Xavier Hartinger placed sixth and eighth with times of 17:55.7 and 18:04.2. Isaiah Ortiz and Nathan Friesen placed 18th and 19th in 18:28.3 and 18:35.5.
Oren Klein and Maxton Nelson placed 22nd and 23rd in 18:42.8 and 18:43.41.
The top 3 teams and top 15 individual runners to cross the finish line in each sub-state race qualify for the state meet.
Each classification features two sub-state sites, with two seeded boys races and two seeded girls races per site (totaling four qualifying races per gender per classification).
