OHara Girls Win Cross Country

In the Saint Mary's Fall Classic Cross Country Run held at William Jewell on October 24, the O'Hara Celtics girls squad won the championship. _____ The team had 36 points, easily ahead of the next two teams of Saint Mary's (62 points) and Odessa (66 points). _____ Leading the Celtics was Claire Becker who was the first runner across the finish line with a time of 23:56! _____ The other four contributing to the victory were 4th place Amy Gaston (25:47), 7th place Katelyn Gutteridge (26:28), 11th place Allison Seck (28:00), and 13th place Mackenzie Shelton (28:47). _____ In the boys race, the Celtics took fourth place as a team with 162 points. _____ Lowell Thomas was 11th and Chris Wesche finished 20th. _____ Collin McKinney, James Keeney, Andy Meyer, and Ronald Clark also ran for O'Hara. _____ The ten schools invited to the meet were Saint Mary's, O'Hara, Odessa, Lone Jack, Drexel, Lee's Summit Community Christian, Barstow, Sherwood, and Princeton. _____ Not all of the schools had complete squads for team scoring.