Cross Country

Richmond Takes First in Last NCC Meet

By: Sara Hoffman

The cross country team competed at the last NCC meet ever on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at Amens Reservoir in Galion, Ohio. The brisk morning started off with the high school boys finishing 5th out of 7 teams. Our leading senior runners were Mark Pfeifer (15th, 18:44:55) Jacob Hord (16th, 18:46:99) for 2nd team NCC.  Honorable mention honors went to Donnie Brooks (19th, 18:51:28). Still going strong in the race was Ellie Richmond who won the girls race with a time of 20:44:91 and received 1st team NCC. Finishing a few spots behind Ellie was Madison Schiefer (7th, 22:20:84) taking the last spot for 1st team NCC. Wynford’s remaining top five scorers were Rachel Redolf (18th, 23:19:21) and Sara Hoffman (20th, 23:40:52) taking honorable mention honors. Madison Graham (22nd, 23:49:81) who sadly missed out on the NCC awards. Our girls placed 3rd out of 6 teams and missed being runner up by 3 points. Our medalist in junior high girls was Shay Miller (9th, 15:06:12) and the team placed 4th. On the junior high boys team, Josh Rose was also a medalist placing 9th with a time of 12:57:20 and the team placed 2nd. The junior high season is sadly over but the varsity teams compete in the district race in Galion on October 19th for possible regional qualifying.