To begin, 58 Varsity Girls started things off. Micaela continued with her medaling ways by earning 10th place. Katelen finished 27th.
Following that race, Christian and Ben paced their way through the course within the group of Varsity Boys. There were 68 in all. Christian finished under 18 minutes again, albeit about a minute slower than his record race in Chillicothe. Still, he did great holding onto 3rd place throughout. The two Stockton (Class 2) boys finished 12 and 7 seconds ahead of him. It was pretty close! Ben came in at 39th.
The Junior Varsity Boys and Girls were combined since there wasn't very many of them. For Excelsior, though, there were four girls and five boys. For the boys, Brent finished 2nd, Bailey 4th, Seth 6th, Logan 9th, and Lane 17th. Out of 55 runners, they did very well. In fact, as a team they finished 1st ahead of Odessa, O'Hara, and Oak Grove.
For the Junior Varsity Girls, Dani continued her winning ways finishing her second of two races in 1st place! She did so even at a slower pace than Chillicothe. April ran her first race of the season and came in at 3rd! Her sister, Ali, came in at 13th and Autumn crossed the finish line in 21st place. There were 27 JV Girls running.
In all, five boys and three girls medaled. They were Christian, Micaela, Brent, Bailey, Seth, Logan, Dani, and April. No awards were given to JV teams to put in the trophy cabinet. Autumn was the only ES runner to set a personal record. Seth and Ali both managed to set their season best times as they close in on their personal records.