Ozark County runners compete at districts


The Dora Lady Falcons made school history when they took third place at the Class 1 District 1 cross country meet held at Arcadia Valley High school in Ironton on Saturday, Oct. 29. Their performance advances them to Saturday’s state meet - a first for a Dora girls’ cross country team. Members of the team are, from left, sophomore Chloe Barton, sophomore Kayden Jones, senior Autumn Nold, senior Cally DePriest, sophomore Emma Martin and junior Mia Gray.

Every member of the Bakersfield Lions cross country team set new personal records at the Class 1 District 1 meet held at Arcadia Valley High School in Ironton on Saturday, Oct. 29. From left: freshman Brooks Amburgy, 21:45; junior Ethan Cotter, 21:44; sophomore CJ Carey, 18:21; sophomore Callie Smith, 23:18, Coach Tammy Lamb; sophomore Bodie Hardin, 18:54; freshman Gaige Samuels, 22:15 and freshman Jedediah McKinney, 20:05.

The Gainesville Bulldogs competed in the Class 2 District 1 cross country meet held at Arcadia Valley High School in Ironton on Saturday, Oct. 29. While Gainesville didn’t have any runners place in the top 30 to advance to state, five team members set new personal records at the meet. Pictured from left, Coach Gary Emrick, Peyton Hathcock, Isaac Pippin, Brady Myers, Aaron Kahl, Nick Goodson, Lyle Pippin, John Botts-Papke, Ryder Murphy, Alyssa Smith. Not pictured, Zeke Yarger. The Bulldogs are pictured under their new canopy purchased with donations from Pointer, Blackburn & Brown, Pippin CPA, Southern Construction and several anonymous donors.

Ozark County runners from Bakersfield, Dora and Gainesville High Schools made the trip to Ironton to compete in district meets held at Arcadia High School Saturday, Oct. 29. Some of those runners are advancing to the Class 1 State Cross Country Championship meet at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 5. 

 

Dora

Dora hauled home a slew of medals and wrote new school history when the Lady Falcons cross county team took third to pave their way to state for the first time ever. “It was a very exciting day,” said Dora Coach Sheree Nold. “They are the first-ever full girls team to advance from Dora High School.”

Dora also had four individual runners qualify for state – siblings Autumn, Cade and Joshua Nold, along with Emma Martin. Autumn, Cade and Joshua are the children of Dora coach Sheree Nold. “The three siblings will have fun running at the state meet together since this is Autumn’s senior year,” Nold said.

Emma is the daughter of Timothy Martin and Abigail Buchholz of Sycamore. 

Nold said nine of her runners hit new personal records at the district meet.

 

Bakersfield

Two Bakersfield Lions are headed to the state cross country meet after the Class 1 District 1 meet at Ironton on Saturday, Oct. 29.

Sophomore Callie Smith placed 29th with her time of 23:18 and sophomore CJ Carey, son of Coach Tammy Lamb, took 25th with his time of 18:21.

BHS Coach Tammy Lamb said every member of her team set new personal best times at the district meet. “They all worked hard,” she added. “We have a very young team and are looking forward to the future.”

 

Gainesville

The Gainesville Bulldogs  varsity cross country runners competed in the Class 2 District 1 meet. While the Bulldogs didn’t have any runners place in the top 30 to advance to the state competition, they had several runners hit personal best finishing times. 

“Sometimes the measure of success doesn’t show up on a podium or with a medal around the neck – it shows in the attitude, sportsmanship and improvement from the athletes from the first race of the season through the last race,” said GHS Coach Gary Emrick. “The improvements have been huge and solid up and down the roster. We’re very excited to see what unfolds next season.”

Ryder Murphy set a new PR of 18:59 and placed 37th out of 102 runners. Isaac Pippin was 41st with 19:13. Aaron Kahl finished in 20:08 (PR); John Botts-Papke in 20:11; Lyle Pippin in 20:27; Brady Myers in 20:31 (PR); Nick Goodson in 20:44 (PR); and Alyssa Smith in 22:46 (PR).

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