The Oak Harbor High School cross country team took its yearly trip to Seaside, Ore., for the Three Course Challenge Saturday, Sept. 20, and returned with its usual impressive medal haul.
The boys and girls teams both finished second in Division I (the top division), John Rodeheffer was the overall champion and Jonalynn Horn placed second among Division I girls (fourth overall).
In Division I boys team scoring, Federal Way took the title with 202 points; Oak Harbor had 263.
The Bend, Ore., girls finished first in Division I with 273 points; Oak Harbor was next with 396.
The meet, which is run at Camp Rilea, is divided into three 5,000-meter races (hard, moderate and easy) and features unusual obstacles like mud and sand pits.
One hundred, seventeen teams and more than 2,000 runners competed.
Rodeheffer defended his hard course title, running 19:02 to defeat 426 participants in the race and earn the meet’s overall championship.
Horn, also running the hard course, posted a 25:01 among the 247 runners.
Sebastian Ceaser (16:32) was the top Oak Harbor boy in the easy race, placing 16th overall. Olivia Flack (21:18) was 25th among the girls.
In the moderate races, Logan Clark (21:11) ran 33rd and Emma Lerch (27:33) 55th to lead the Wildcat teams.
Oak Harbor returns to Wesco action when it meets host Shorecrest, Lake Stevens and Monroe at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at Hamlin Park.
Oak Harbor results at Seaside. (Results are overall placings among all runners from all divisions.):
Boys hard race (427 runners): 1, John Rodeheffer, 19:20; 19, Miguel Guzman, 21:35; 68, Caleb Peek, 23:05; 179, Matthew Nortier, 26:08; 183, Joe Gorman, 26:10; 230, Garrett Stahl, 26:55.
Girls hard race (247): 4, Jonalynn Horn, 25:01; 35, Carolynn Wicker, 27:41; 160, Jessica Hollins, 33:33; 213, Hanna Keyes, 37:37.
Boys moderate race (422): 33, Logan Clark, 21:11; 82, Jake Hucko, 22:56; 103, Wyatt Pauley, 23:26; 181, Scot Erickson, 24:56; 228, Cooper Treadwell, 25:58; 340, Derek Volk, 28:30; 372, Alex Berry, 30:01; 386, Ben Bozeman, 30:47; 398, Casey Towsley, 31:17.
Girls moderate race (286): 52, Emma Lerch, 27:33; 72, Tamia Rois, 28:17; 85, Meredith Bain, 28:44.
Boys easy race (420): 16, Sebastian Ceaser, 16:32; 44, Michael Lym, 18:01; , Tyler Grehan, 19:20; 97, Ryan Vasileff, 19:31; 131, Nathan Larson, 20:08; 138, Gabe Eccleston, 20:15; 275, Thomas O’Brien, 23:15; 291, William Nicholson, 23:33; 335, Joe Gilham, 24:30; 336, Lucas Nicholson, 24:31; 350, Travis Wagner, 25:19; 413, Daniel Gibson, 30:13.
Girls easy race (395): 25, Olivia Flack, 21:18; 45, Megan Keating, 22:34; 101, Elyssa Nortier, 24:42; 132, Carly Crowther, 25:27; 314, Emma Wezeman, 30:19; 348, Tauni Keyes, 32:35; 353, Mikele Lundy, 32:43; 371, Megan Peek, 34.16.
(The Wildcats’ Jonalynn Horn, left, runs among the leaders in the girls hard course race. Photo by Pat Horn.)
