Macon sophomore Tarin Schneider is headed to the state cross country meet after running 21:52.60 for 16th place Saturday at the Class 3 District 4 meet at Jesse James Park in Kearney.
The top four teams and the top 30 individual finishers from each district advance to state, the Warrensburg Star Journal reported. Schneider finished 16th of 94 runners in the girls race, according to unofficial results posted on MileSplit.
Schneider crossed 2.5 seconds behind St. Pius X’s Marin Hinkebein and 3.3 seconds ahead of Notre Dame de Sion’s Katherine Kennedy.
The Macon girls finished ninth of 14 scoring teams with 246 points. Knob Noster won the team title with 79. Notre Dame de Sion scored 99, Summit Christian Academy 114, and St. Pius X 120 to round out the top four.
McKinzie Crouch and Adalyn Stephenson ran together behind Schneider. Crouch was 54th in 24:25.00, and Stephenson was 55th in 24:26.10. Dyllan Hamblen ran 24:48.00 for 63rd, Emelyn Kempker was 81st in 26:21.70, and Clara Fitzsimmons was 92nd in 28:58.60.
Macon finished six points ahead of Maryville and Pembroke Hill, which tied at 252, and also beat Chillicothe, Holden, and Lawson.
Notre Dame de Sion’s Kelly Frank won the girls race in 19:43.70. Savannah’s Raedyn Phillips was second in 20:10.30.
The Macon boys ran four runners, one short of a team score. Senior Brenden O’Hara led them, placing 37th of 116 in 19:19.20. Freshman Jonah Sayler was 74th in 20:53.60, Tucker Ferguson was 100th in 23:39.71, and Jessie Miller was 109th in 26:22.50.
Summit Christian Academy’s Leo Butler won the boys race in 17:09.70. St. Pius X won the boys team title with 84 points.
At the Class 1 District 3 meet at Van-Far in Vandalia, La Plata freshman Onyx Hernandez ran 21:17.11 for 67th of 109 boys. Community’s Kyler Kobush finished one-hundredth of a second ahead in 66th. Hernandez was La Plata’s only runner in the results. Vienna’s Hunter Schwartze won the race in 16:08.86.
The Class 3 state girls race is at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia.
Final tally: Schneider 16th and headed to state, Macon girls ninth.