Girls Cross Country: Pioneers win Portage Invitational; Skyline 23rd

Terry Jacoby
October 8, 2019, 5 years ago

Even with one of their top runners not making the trip, the Pioneer girls’ cross country team ran away with the Portage Invitational on Saturday. And it wasn’t even close.

The Pioneers finished with a tournament-best 93 points to finish first. Northville was second (148) followed by Traverse City Central (158), St. Joseph Academy (166) and Saline (172).

Skyline finished 23^rd out of 37 teams.

Super sophomore Sarah Forsyth was second overall with a time of 17:47.5.

The Pioneers landed three other runners in the top 25 – sophomore Cookie Baugh was 15^th (18:43.6); sophomore Charlotte Batra was 21^st (18:56.5) and senior Anna Vogel was 23^rd (19:06.2).

Junior Anna Dudek was 37^th (19:29.1), freshman Emily Cooper was 102^nd (20:39.8) and senior Lydia Valtadoros was 120^th (20:48.7).

Skyline was led by junior Laura O’Brien who placed 31^st in 19:23.2.

Eagles at the finish line:

1. 31.11 Laura O’Brien 19:23.2
2.116.11 Catrin Koselka 20:48.2
3.131.12 Arielle Melong 21:03.5
4.146.10 Caitlyn Donnelly 21:15.3
5.158.12 Mara Mueting 21:24.6
6.184.11 Sierra Lubetkin 21:51.5

[Girls cross country]