The Bluffton cross country teams competed at the Columbus Grove Invitational Saturday morning, September 4.

BOYS COMPETITION

Botkins won the boys 18-team Red Division team title with 48 points. Lincolnview was second (69), followed by Bluffton in a solid third-place showing (155).

Junior Landon Armstrong posted the top Pirate finish. He came in fifth among 104 runners in 17 minutes.

Bluffton junior Sam Derstine finished 25th, and senior Trey Boblitt ended up 30th. Rounding out the Pirate scorers were Jonah Rehm (44th) and John Yoder (51st).

Pirate runner Place Time

Landon Armstrong 5th 17:00.670

Sam Derstine 25th 18:29.479

Trey Boblitt 30th 18:42.271

Jonah Rehm 44th 19:22.894

John Yoder 51st 19:55.366

Isaiah Conley 55th 20:07.920

Red Division Team Results

(Place, points, school)

  1)     48 BOTKINS

  2)     69 LINCOLNVIEW    

  3)    155 BLUFFTON

  4)     166 VAN BUREN

  5)     169 CAREY

  6)     181 AYERSVILLE

  7)     192 FAYETTE

  8)    203 KALIDA

  9)     221 HICKSVILLE

 10)     224 CRESTVIEW

 11)     278 ANTWERP

 12)     303 OTTOVILLE

 13)     307 SPENCERVILLE

 14)     313 EDGERTON

GIRLS COMPETITION

Botkins also won the girls team crown with 29 points. Bluffton finished fifth (126) out of 15 teams represented. Eight schools did not have enough runners for a team score.

Pirate freshman June Essinger finished eighth in the 80-runner girls field with a time of 21:13.95 to lead the Bluffton girls.

Pirate runner Place Year Time

June Essinger 8 9 21:13.950

Makay Tuttle 31 9 23:24.748

Amairi Painter 32 10 23:43.037

Faith Combs 47 9 24:35.383

Kaelin Weissling 48 10 24:35.631

Greta Kauffman 78 9 32:14.283

Girls Red Division Team Results

(Place, points, school)

  1)      29    BOTKINS

  2)      59    VAN BUREN

  3)      75    EDGERTON

  4)     103    LINCOLNVIEW

  5)     126    BLUFFTON

  6)     143    COLUMBUS GROVE

  7)     148    ANTWERP