The Boys Cross Country Team took their #16 State Ranking to the battlefield of New Prairie this past Saturday. Splitting up their Varsity team to compete for what would be the Tiger's 2nd straight Freshman/Sophomore race title in a row. Last year the Tiger's Jacob Poyner (then a Sophomore) led the young Warsaw team to the Frosh/Soph title. This year would be no different.

The Tigers captured their 2nd straight title scoring an AMAZING 38 points to dominate the race. Warsaw placed 7 runners in the top 21 places:

Freshman/Sophomore Race Results:
2nd Ellis Coon 16:32 - Sophomore
3rd Cam Hoskins 16:46 - Freshman
5th Ismael Calderon 16:59 - Sophomore
10th Daniel Messenger 17:06 - Freshman
18th Michael Compton 17:22 - Freshman
20th Tyler Houvener 17:29 - Sophomore
21st Dominic Kurosky 17:31 - Freshman

The Varsity and Reserve Squads were impressive as well:

Warsaw's Varsity finished an outstanding 6th place out of 32 teams at the New Prairie invite. Warsaw's star runner Jacob Poyner broke the 16-minute barrier for the 5th fasterst time in WCHS cross country history.

Varsity results:
5th place Jacob Poyner 15:50
41st Brysten James 16:51
48th Robert Murphy 16:59
53rd Michael Smolen 17:02
92nd Spencer Rheinhardt 17:36
118th Nate Haller 17:50
135th Nolan Haines 18:08

Reserve results:
17th Jacob Deboest 18:01
23rd Ryan Goon 18:10
46th Justin Oberlin 18:31
49th Brandon Lee 18:36
67th Nick Adams 18:47
70th Ricky Ochoa 18:50
79th Jacob Adley 18:57
113th Chris Hollopeter 19:18
117th Duncan McCammack 19:29
166th Aaron Haller 20:05
175th Evan Hanson 20:14
178th Taylor Pletcher 20:14
193rd Eric Cusick 20:22
204th Luis Cervantes 20:29
212th Curtis Ryder 20:36
223rd Cameron Hershberger 20:45
265th Nate Mills 21:14
268th Gibson Heckert 21:18
270th Nick Bergen 21:21
273rd Conner Williamson 21:22
275th Austin Miotto 21:23
277th Nick Light 21:24
288th Landon Newsome 21:31
295th Jose Garcia 21:36
314th Brenden Bement 21:56
353rd Nick Downton 22:50
372nd Andrew Thrasher 23:39
387th Jesse Boal 24:13
396th Dillon Hand 24:41
399th Erik Marroquin 24:54
413th Blake Winters 26:03

There were 423 runners in the reserve race. Warsaw runs Wednesday vs. Plymouth/Goshen at Plymouth.

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