Great Bend High Schools’s Decorah Schroeter placed first in Division B girls at the Kansas Class 5A Great Bend sub-state Saturday at Lake Barton.
Schroeter posted a 5K time of 18 minutes, 25.61 seconds to win the race. Teammate Sydney Stein placed 10th with a time of 20:19.65, followed Panther Bella Long, 12th, 20:27.3.
Bishop Carroll won the Division B girls team title with 30 points, followed by Great Bend with 68 points, Newton 71, Valley Center 73, Maize South 127 and Arkansas City 167.
The Bishop Carroll boys placed five runners in the top 10 and seven in the top 20 to run away with Division A.
The Eagles scored 19 points, followed by Andover Central 61, Maize South 83, Goddard Eisenhower 109, Great Bend 114, Topeka West 155 and Newton 181.
Great Bend’s Brogan Lashley and Hutchinson’s Cristian Medina placed ninth and 10th in Division A boys with times of 17:13.25 and 17:32.67 and qualified for state.
Kapaun-Mount Carmel’s Ava Claassen placed first in Division A girls with a time of 16:40.93.
The Kapaun girls place six runners in the top 20 and edged Andover Central 45-53 for the Division A girls regional title.
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).
Kansas Class 5A Great Bend cross country sub-state results — https://ks.milesplit.com/
