If there is one thing that comes out of Fort Mill, it is runners.
Fort Mill swept the York County Championship cross-country meet Saturday morning at Northwestern High School in both the varsity and JV races, as both Nation Ford and Catawba Ridge each flip-flopped in second and third places behind the Yellow Jackets in all four races.
The Fort Mill varsity girls won with a score of 34, followed by a 54 from Nation Ford and a 100 from Catawba Ridge. The Falcons’ Katie Pou won the girls race coming in at 19:17.
Fort Mill was led by Alivia Cleveland, who finished third in 19:58, followed by Angel Kravitz at 20:01 in fourth, Avery Moriarty at 20:04 in fifth and Elise Barradale at 20:41 in ninth. Brinley Ellis rounded out the scoring for the Jackets in 13th at 21:30.
For Nation Ford, following Pou was Ansley Archuleta in sixth at 20:09, Mia Royall in 10th at 20:44 and Marysa Brenner in 18th at 21:43. Jordyn Battle finished the scoring for the Falcons coming in 19th at 21:58.
Catawba Ridge girls were led by Maddy Mack, who finished seventh in 20:32. Sophia Commerford finished in 21st at 22:06, followed by Hunter Mattes in 23rd at 22:18, Talia Gluff in 24th at 22:19 and Hayla Banish in 25th at 22:27.
For the boys’ varsity race, Fort Mill had a 36 with Catawba Ridge coming in second with a 58 and Nation Ford was third with a 67. The Copperheads’ Sam Rich won the race in 15:32 and was followed by Nation Ford’s Connor O’Flynn in 16:05.
Fort Mill was led by Devon Sibley in fourth in 16:18 with Alec Lootens coming in sixth in 16:31. Evan Wey was seventh in 16:39 and Jackson Dawson was eighth in 16:46. Evan Ickert was 11th overall in 16:54 to end the Jackets scoring.
Following Rich’s winning time for Catawba Ridge was Caden Westover in fifth at 16:26 and Joshua Silverman in 14th at 17:10. Spencer Predmore was 18th in 17:36 and Ty Massey finished 20th in 17:50.
Nation Ford’s Alan Dayrit was 10th in 16:53 behind O’Flynn. He was followed by Justin Storms in 15th at 17:14 and Chase Johnson in 19th at 17:43. Jonathan Pool finished the scoring for the Falcons in 21st at 17:52.
Fort Mill and Nation Ford will have their Region 3-5A championship meet Oct. 20 at the Anne Springs Close Greenway. Catawba Ridge will have their Region 3-4A championship meet Oct. 21 also at the greenway.
Mac Banks: mac@fortmillprepsports.com, @fortprep