Knoxville led the field of local schools competing at Thursday night’s PCM Mustang Invitational cross country meet, as the Panther boys took the team title with a comfortable victory over Ballard; and girls squad finished in fifth.

In the boys’ race, Wick Cunningham continued his dominance, breezing to a first-place finish by over :30 seconds yet again. Cunningham’s teammates backed him up nicely, landing their next five runners all between 10th and 16th place. The Pella Christian boys finished 9th in the team standings, led by a 28th-place finish from Jacob Lensing; while PCM’s Rhett Gainey finished 12th to earn a medal and lead the way for the Mustangs – who finished 11th. Pleasantville rounded out the field of local teams, finishing 12th in the team standings and paced by Dylan Lauer; who finished 43rd.

In the girls’ race, Ballard and Davis County tied for first place with 52 points. The Knoxville girls took fifth place, led by Courtney Hughs and Lydia Anderson, who came across the line in 12th and 21st place, respectively. The remainder of our local girls programs did not field full varsity programs; but individual top performances included PCM’s Rachel Peter at 20th, Marina Shannon of Pella Christian finished 37th and Trisha Kunze of Pleasantville came across the line 57th.

Full Results by Team:

Knoxville

Wick Cunningham 1 16:30
Jordan Angrove 10 18:15
Preston Lee 13 18:35
Cris Schwanebeck 14 18:37
Brad Shearer 16 18:41
Brendan Finan 37 19:33
Mitchell Hollingshead 39 19:38

Pella Christian

Jacob Lensing 28 19:09
Ryen Van Vark 46 19:54
Max Shannon 47 19:56
Jonathan Beltman 49 20:03
Matthew Spoelstra 60 20:49
Jackson Schelhass 63 20:59

PCM

Rhett Gainey 12 18:35
Matt Chizek 31 19:17
Alek Breckenridge 65 21:38
Trenton Howard 69 21:53
Troy Vittetoe 71 22:14
Charlie Schott 78 24:36

Pleasantville

Dylan Lauer 43 19:48
Josh Luna 62 20:56
Trever Zoss 73 22:21
Jake Adkins 74 22:44
Nate Sowers 77 23:46
Alec Brown 79 26:03
Jacob Boyles 80 26:25

GIRLS

Knoxville

Courtney Hughs 12 17:31
Lydia Anderson 21 18:21
Kaeline Schuenke 22 18:29
Mikayla Becker 31 19:17
Sammi Cashman 33 19:23
Aubrey Schwanebeck 34 19:30
Melissa Molloy 44 21:52

20 Rachel Peter PCM 17:52
68 Jenna Little PCM 22:56

37 Marina Shannon Pella Christian 18:50
50 Leah Breon Pella Christian 20:09
51 Damaris Worthington Pella Christian 20:18

57 Trisha Kunze Pleasantville 20:47
63 Hanna DeJoode Pleasantville 21:40
70 Megan Oliver Pleasantville 26:30
71 Traci Kunze Pleasantville 26:41

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