Boys' Team and Individual Girls Qualify for KHSAA State Meet After Impressive Region Run

Edmonson Voice Sports:
The ECHS cross country teams traveled to Bardstown on Saturday to compete in the KHSAA Region 2 cross country meet.  

The boys' cross country team finished 3rd to earn a spot in the KHSAA State Championship. For the boys team, sophomore Aidan Meredith was the Regional Runner Up and finished with a personal best time of 16:46 for the 5k race.  Jack Browning also earned All Region honors coming in 7th place with a time of 17:50. Senior Blake Head was the third Wildcat to cross the finish line with a season-best time of 18:47 which landed him in 16th place. Zander Garrett  finished in 23rd with a season-best time of 19:10. Dayton Chidester finished in 25th with a season-best time of 19:14. 7th grader Lance Lindsey finished in 42nd with a season-best 22:16.

“I am extremely proud of our boys team; each one of them executed their race plan and competed, said ECHS Head Coach Brad Meredith. "We ran the best race as a team that we could have. We were projected 5th coming into the race but we knew that we were better than our ranking.  We finished just 5 points behind Green County for Regional Runner Up. Our goal was to finish runner up. We barely missed it,  but I cannot be upset because of how well we ran. The boys gave everything they had. You can’t be mad or upset at them because they gave everything. We had some boys that ran 2 minutes faster today than they did on this course less than a month ago."

In the girls race,  Mollie Johnson earned All Region Honors with her 8th place finish and running a personal best time of 21:16. Alaina Deweese ran a personal best time of 24:30 placing 24th overall.  Both Mollie and Alaina qualified as individuals for next week’s KHSAA State Championships.

Also competing for Edmonson County was Makenna Browning finished in 45th place with a personal best time of 27:26 and Tenley Franich 27:38 came in 46th.

“Our girls competed hard today, all of them ran their best time of the season. Like the boys , they did everything they could to be at their best today.  I’m super proud of them.  We have a group of young girls, a lot of them this was their first regional meet.  They could have found a lot of excuses to not be at their best today but they didn’t. This group of girls are resilient and I have high expectations for the future,” said Coach Brad Meredith. 

The State Championships are on Saturday, November 1st at Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The boys will race at 3:00 (est) and girls race is at 3:45 (est).