French Camp cross country closed out the season with a third place finish by the girls and a fourth place finish by the boys at the 1A state meet Monday at Choctaw Trails.
“Everybody ran well today,” said coach Joe Watkins. “It was hard not to get too excited and go out too fast. We have young girls who had never run in a state meet before so I’m nothing but grateful.”
The French Camp girls just missed getting the runner-up trophy, finishing with a team score of 63, five more than second place Myrtle. Tupelo Christian had three of the top four runners and easily won a fourth consecutive championship with 28 points.
The boys finished with 96 points, trailing Tupelo Christian, which won for the third time in four years with 20 points, Tremont 83 and Hickory Flat 93.
French Camp’s top individual runner was senior Colby Walters, sixth out of 89 runners in the boys race with a time of 18:41.1 for 5,000 meters over the hilly and difficult course. He was followed by David Ferguson in 15th place, Stratton Choppaa 22nd, Silas Hodge 27th and Cameron McDaniel 32nd.
Sisters Averie Jane Gundy and Olivia Gundy were French Camp’s top girls. Averie Jane was ninth in 23:09.4. Olivia was 17th, Maddi Davis 18th, Kelsey Bridges 20th and Lucy Littlejohn 25th.
Other team winners at the 1A/3A/5A meet were Brookhaven boys in 5A, Saltillo girls in 5A, Senatobia boys in 3A and St. Andrew’s girls in 3A
The 2A/4A/6A meet was set for Wednesday.
