Trey Beckett's winning performance led the Cabell Midland boys to the team title Saturday in the Dragons Run by the River cross country meet.
 
Cabell Midland also won the girls team title.
 
The Knights rolled to the boys championship with 21 points. Wheelersburg was second with 70 followed by host Fairland 93, Huntington High 117, Spring Valley 127 and Ironton 176.
 
Beckett ran the 5K course with a time of 17:37.37.
 
Justin Kammler from Portsmouth Notre Dame was the runner-up (17:41.98) and Huntington High runner Luke Finley placed third (17:50.64).
 
The Midland Knights also took places four through sixth with Ryan Smith (18:00.54), Corey Miller (18:02.13) and Michael Niemann (18:15) respectively. Cabell Midland won the girls 5K meet with 35 points. Runner-up Gallipolis had 50 followed by Wheelersburg 80, Huntington High 85 and Fairland 95.
Gallipolis runner Peyton Adkins placed first among the girls with a time of 19:22.09.
 
Sarah Ruggles from Wheelersburg (21:05.61) was second and Alex Georgel-Walz from the Huntington Highlanders was third with a time of 21:40.89). Skie Taylor from Covenant School finished fifth (21:57.61 and Brittany Taft from Cabell Midland placed sixth 22:14.32).
Fairland won the boys 3,200-meter middle school event. Max Conley from Wheeleersburg was the lead runner with a time of 11:39.02. Milton claimed the girls 3,200-meter middle school title, led by Jorden Thornton in first place with a time of 13:00.38.

Source: The Herald Dispatch

Cabell Midland boys cross country runners rolled to victory at the Hurricane Invitational.
 
Cabell Midland had a team score of 37 followed by St. Albans with 72, Winfield with 81 and Hurricane with 135. Caleb Ellis from St. Albans won the boys 5K with a time of 17:41.74.
Cabell Midland had four of its runners in the top 10 -- Trey Beckett, second, 18:00.40; Corey Miller, seventh, 18:29.05; Michael Niemann, eighth, 18:29.46; and Dustin Stewart, ninth, 18:30.54. Nolan Queen for the Knights placed 11th with a time of 18:34.25.
 
Huntington High's top runner was Luke Finley in 17th place with a time of 18:54.65, followed by Jon Blatt from Spring Valley in 18th place with a time of 19:91.34.
 
Hurricane won the girls race. Alex Dent for the Redskins was first in 20:17.31 and Josie Crouch placed second with a time of 20:27.68. Cabell Midland's girls had Rachel Williams seventh (21:58.13) and Brittany Taft ninth (22:17.25).
Skye Taylor from Covenant School was 15th with a time of 22:56.91.
 
Alexander Georgel-Walz from Huntington High placed 21st (23:22.94) and Savannah Rutherford from Spring Valley was 44th (25:06.52).
 
Source: The Herald Dispatch