Centralia’s Nolan Spickert was the state champion for Class 3 at the MSHSAA State Cross Country Championships at Gans Creek in Columbia Friday. His time of 15:20.20 was 27 seconds faster than the runner-up. Teammate Jensen Decker was tenth, one minute behind. The Moberly girls finished 11th as a team in Class 3, led by Cora Haven finishing 21st. Centralia’s Katelynn Asbury finished seventh. The Monroe City girls finished fourth in Class 2. Sophomore Kate Willingham finished 24th and Senior Bradi Keller was 30th to lead the way. Harrisburg sophomore Jacqueline Stidham finished sixth, with Scotland County junior Georgia Taylor and South Shelby junior Samentha Koper also finishing in the top 30. Westran senior Reece Sickler was fifth to lead the area Class 2 boys.
Class 1 will compete Saturday.
MSHSAA State Championships (at Gans Creek – Columbia)
Class 2
Girls
1 Lexington High School 40 1 2 3 16 18 (57) (58) 19:29 2:17
2 Whitfield High School 132 14 19 21 23 55 (61) (97) 20:55 2:06
3 Lafayette County High School 134 5 20 31 33 45 (64) (68) 20:55 2:12
4 Monroe City High School 137 13 15 29 37 43 (59) (72) 20:57 1:40
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14 Harrisburg High School 280 4 49 67 71 89 22:06 4:04
1 Addison Smith SR Lexington High School 18:20.30 1
2 Myles Copley FR Houston High School 18:42.50
3 Phoebe Engelbrecht JR Lexington High School 18:59.80 2
4 Ellie Lichte SO Lexington High School 19:08.90 3
5 Lyla Huffman SO Houston High School 19:16.80
6 Jacqueline Stidham SO Harrisburg High School 19:33.90 4
11 Georgia Taylor JR Scotland County High School 19:42.40
24 Kate Willingham SO Monroe City High School 20:04.30 13
25 Samentha Koper JR South Shelby High School 20:04.30
30 Bradi Keller SR Monroe City High School 20:16.60 15
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39 Leah Pontius JR Palmyra High School 20:41.50
50 Edith Norton SO Mark Twain High School 21:08.40
51 Emily Spalding SR Monroe City High School 21:09.40 29
62 Anna Russell JR Monroe City High School 21:29.70 37
64 Delaney Hyle SO Putnam County High School 21:33.90
65 Reagan Brewer SO Scotland County High School 21:34.30
74 Jaidyn Milligan FR Montgomery County High School 21:43.80
76 Rylie Mulvaney JR Monroe City High School 21:45.10 43
87 Audrey Reid JR Palmyra High School 22:00.70
90 Josey Whitaker SR Harrisburg High School 22:02.00 49
97 Austee Barnes FR Palmyra High School 22:11.90
104 Cadence Adams SO Monroe City High School 22:21.40 59
118 Marie Bergfield SR Harrisburg High School 22:34.30 67
120 Carmiah Bode FR South Shelby High School 22:37.70
124 Lillian Hirner SO Harrisburg High School 22:44.40 71
125 Grace Thome SR Monroe City High School 22:44.90 72
133 Hadley Seaton FR South Shelby High School 23:04.60
150 Kierstyn Moore SO Scotland County High School 23:54.90
Boys
1 Springfield Catholic High School 69 3 12 14 15 25 (35) (67) 16:47 1:04
2 Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience 125 10 19 22 30 44 (53) (69) 17:15 1:04
3 West Platte High School 134 2 8 39 40 45 (64) (65) 17:07 1:54
4 Woodland High School 142 6 18 24 31 63 (73) (102) 17:23 2:01
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1 Wyatt Klaiber SR El Dorado Springs High School 15:15.90 1
2 Luke Faulkner SR Spokane High School 15:54.20
3 Charles Trease JR West Platte High School 15:56.20 2
4 Kyle Hathcock SR Springfield Catholic High School 16:14.40 3
5 Reece Sickler SR Westran High School 16:19.60
11 Bently Carper FR Palmyra High School 16:32.30
13 Liam Betts FR Fayette High School 16:33.80
24 Luca Smith JR Westran High School 16:53.00
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67 Brady McNeill SR Monroe City High School 17:37.30
68 Jayson Locke SR New Bloomfield High School 17:38.10
71 Levi Hubbard JR South Callaway High School 17:41.10
117 Tanner Eisele JR Mark Twain High School 18:31.10
120 Grant Smeltser JR Clark County High School 18:40.10
121 Beau Mason SR South Shelby High School 18:42.90
Class 3
1 Herculaneum High School 43 2 4 8 10 19 (30) (54) 19:35 1:26
2 MICDS 83 7 9 11 16 40 (47) (77) 20:05 1:48
3 Knob Noster High School 147 14 26 27 35 45 (49) (90) 20:52 1:34
4 Notre Dame de Sion High School 167 1 32 34 48 52 (53) (59) 20:52 2:55
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11 Moberly High School 243 13 29 56 71 74 (78) (101) 21:29 2:47
12 Bowling Green High School 249 17 43 51 66 72 (103) 21:34 2:14
1 Brianna Krueger SR St. Charles West High School 17:34.10
2 Anna Ross FR Reeds Spring High School 17:35.40
3 Kelly Frank JR Notre Dame de Sion High School 18:42.10 1
4 Katrina Cantwell SR Fair Grove High School 18:53.20
5 Adysynn Gonzalez FR Herculaneum High School 18:54.50 2
7 Katelynn Asbury JR Centralia High School 19:10.50
21 Cora Howen SR Moberly High School 19:49.80 13
24 Magdalena Wax SO Boonville High School 19:53.70
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34 Harley Haywood SR Bowling Green High School 20:11.60 17
54 Kaylee Barker SO Moberly High School 20:53.00 29
64 Julia Volkart SR Southern Boone High School 21:14.40
66 Maryam Waheed SR Mexico High School 21:15.40
69 Maria Peuster SO Mexico High School 21:19.90
79 Kinsley Rentschler SR Fulton High School 21:25.40
83 Rayna Stewart FR Bowling Green High School 21:28.10 43
84 Tarin Schneider SO Macon High School 21:28.70
95 Abigail Kurz JR Bowling Green High School 21:36.10 51
107 Kirsten Defreitas SR Moberly High School 21:48.70 56
123 McKinley Vanhooser JR Bowling Green High School 22:08.50 66
131 Jacey Engel SR Moberly High School 22:20.60 71
133 Bella Pruitt FR Fulton High School 22:23.00
134 Colbie Adkison FR Bowling Green High School 22:26.30 72
137 Delany Decker FR Moberly High School 22:37.30 74
141 Amelia McClain SO Moberly High School 22:47.00 78
167 Evelyn Freeman SR Moberly High School 25:22.20 101
Boys
1 Herculaneum High School 121 6 20 29 31 35 (46) (57) 16:46 1:01
2 Maplewood-Richmond Hts. High School 121 8 16 19 28 50 (76) (106) 16:48 1:13
3 Fair Grove High School 123 11 23 25 27 37 (71) (73) 16:50 0:44
4 Lutheran St. Charles High School 137 3 4 13 52 65 (92) (112) 16:47 2:01
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1 Nolan Spickert JR Centralia High School 15:20.20
2 Heru Bey SR MICDS 15:47.20 1
3 Leo Butler JR Summit Christian Academy High School 15:53.50 2
4 Nathan Lind SR Lutheran St. Charles High School 15:54.00 3
5 Jack Mahoney SR Lutheran St. Charles High School 16:03.40 4
10 Jensen Decker JR Centralia High School 16:20.20
14 Trae Jennewein JR Bowling Green High School 16:25.40
17 Eamon Finnegan SO Bowling Green High School 16:27.50
20 Seth Stevenson SO Mexico High School 16:29.20
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44 Maddox Kennedy SO Southern Boone High School 17:04.60
64 Kaden Kleindienst JR Fulton High School 17:21.80
80 Liam Kloski JR Moberly High School 17:33.70
95 Jackson Campbell SR Southern Boone High School 17:46.10
