KHS girls tackle 5K, take 3rd place at Guthrie meet

Cross country runners both boys and girls - got a dose of a 5 kilometer race last Saturday.

KHS took part in the second annual Clay Tarter Memorial Invitational in Guthrie.

The Lady Jackets took third place out of 10 teams with 109 points.

Edmond North nearly recorded a “perfect” score, which is having the top-five placers in a race and scoring 15 points.

The Lady Huskies scored 18 as they placed the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth runners.

Keeping them from that perfection wasn’t a Kingfi sher athlete, but close to it.

Kinley Taylor of Jones placed third in the race. Taylor was a freshman member of Kingfisher’s team that took fifth at state last year and moved to Jones over the summer.

She ran the 5 kilometers in 19:33.93.

Kingfisher’s top placer was Scout Snodgrass.

Her time of 21:20.99 was good for 13th overall and 12th among runners scoring points for their teams.

JoiningSnodgrassinmedaling were Lily Lunsford, 15th (14th) in 21:30.86; Harper Evans, 18th (17th) in 21.38.60; and Terry Ann McCully, 19th (18th) in 22:15.59.

Sophia Dudzinski ran her way into scoring KHS for the first time this season as she placed 52nd overall and 48th among scorers.

Guthrie was the meet’s runner-up with 99 points.

Enid was fourth with 111 and Jones fifth with 127.

While 5A and 6A girls run a 5K at several meets, including regional and state, Class 4A and below only run 3,200 meters.

Three KHS boys ran, led by Wyatt Long’s 47th place finish.

He crossed in 18:35.81. Conner Askey was 74th and Chance Dunn 84th for the Jackets.