High School Sports: Liberty Girls Earn First County Cross Country Title

broke three-year hold on the girls' cross country county title Friday at McDaniel College.

The title was the first for the Liberty girls in the meet. Century won the title in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The meet was postponed from Thursday and moved from to McDaniel due to the weather.

Liberty was led by senior Casey Sullivan in third place followed by Sarah Rinehart, fifth;  Caroline McNary, 11th; Kelly Thurmond, 16th and Maura Souders in 19th. The top five finishers for each team are added together for the final score.

Liberty edged Century 54 to 59 for the crown. Rounding out the scoring was Winters Mill 64; South Carroll, 71; Westminster, 97; Manchester Valley, 163; Francis Scott Key, 190 and North Carroll, 218.

Pacing Century was Katie Todd in seventh. Also scoring for the Knights was Erin Larkin, eighth; Beth Lang, 10th; Morgan Fagnant, 12th and Lillie Cimmerer, 22nd.

South Carroll’s top finisher was Samantha Bingaman in sixth followed by freshman Olivia Lowman, ninth; Jessica Craig, 15th; Tina Graf, 20th and Jessica McWilliams, 21st.

The top finisher in the girls race for the second year in a row was Winters Mill’s Hannah Oneda, who finished two minutes ahead of teammate Nicole Rutherford.

Winters Mill has kept their streak in tact in the boys race as they won the title for the fourth year in a row.

Falcon junior Weston Carvalho won the race ahead of teammate Zach Hopkins.

Century was second in the race with 49 points to Winters Mill’s 25. Westminster was third with 76 points followed by Liberty with 86, North Carroll 130, South Carroll 134, Manchester Valley 210 and Francis Scott Key 232.

Patrick Anske led the Knights with a fourth place finish followed by teammates John Mead, eighth; Kevin Slujtner, 11th; Joshua Turskey, 12th and Owen Thomas in 14th.

Senior Greg Rinehart topped Liberty in fifth place followed by Tom Luebke, 15th; Kyle Holmes, 16th; Tyler Pollard, 20th and Jake Spivey, 30th.

Ryan Smith paced South Carroll in 19th with fellow Cavaliers scoring Sam Evans, 24th; Nick Chaconas, 28th; Josh Lockwood, 29th and Justin Buck, 34th.

The county teams take part in regional meets next Thursday with Century, Liberty and South Carroll running at Middletown at 3 p.m.

Girls

Top 25 Individuals

1 Hannah Oneda, Winters Mill 18:13.8; 2 Nicole Rutherford,  Winters Mill 20:15.9; 3 Casey Sullivan, Liberty 20:18.6; 4 Natalie Eastwood, Westminster 20:23.1; 5 Sarah Rinehart, Liberty 20:24.0; 6 Samantha Bingaman,  South Carroll 20:27.0; 7 Katie Todd, Century 20:41.5; 8 Erin Larkin, Century 20:42.5; 9 Olivia Lowman, South Carroll 20:45.4; 10 Beth Lang, Century 21:02.8; 11 Caroline McNary, Liberty 21:15.2; 12 Morgan Fagnant, Century 21:15.8; 13 Jordan Mann, Westminster 21:24.7; 14 Colleen Kernan, Westminster 21:38.1; 15 Jessica Craig, South Carroll 21:41.0; 16 Kelly Thurmond, Liberty 21:44.8; 17 Danielle May-West, Winters Mill 21:46.5; 18 Hannah Gore, Winters Mill 21:47.2; 19 Maura Souders, Liberty 21:48.0; 20 Tina Graf, South Carroll 21:50.1; 21 Jessica Mcwilliams, South Carroll 21:50.9; 22 Lillie Cimmerer, Century 21:56.0; 23 Kirsten McCarthy, Manchester Valley 21:56.8; 24 Melinda Staub, Francis Scott Key 21:58.5; 25 Shelby Fair, Francis Scott Key 22:01.6.

Teams

1 Liberty 54; 2 Century 59; 3 Winters Mill 64; 4 South Carroll 71;  5 Westminster 97; 6 Manchester Valley 163; 7 Francis Scott Key 190; 8 North Carroll 218.

Boys

Top 25 Individuals

1 Weston Carvalho, Winters Mill 16:52.4; 2 Zach Hopkins, Winters Mill 17:01.4; 3 Reilly Cox, Winters Mill 17:15.5; 4 Patrick Anske, Century 17:23.0; 5 Greg Rinehart, Liberty 17:25.7; 6 Alex Cooke, Westminster 17:28.1; 7 Kody Wilson, North Carroll 17:29.2; 8 John Mead, Century 17:30.4; 9 Will Weisgerber, Winters Mill 17:38.9; 10 Alex Warfield, Winters Mill 17:41.4; 11 Kevin Slujtner, Century 17:48.0; 12 Joshua Turskey, Century 17:53.0; 13 Ryan Barnes, Westminster 17:58.0; 14 Owen Thomas, Century 17:59.1; 15 Tom Luebke, Liberty 18:02.9; 16 Kyle Holmes, Liberty 18:04.4; 17 Kevin Taylor, Westminster 18:07.3; 18 Mark Walther, Westminster 18:10.7; 19 Ryan Smith, South Carroll 18:12.3; 20 Tyler Pollard, Liberty 18:16.3; 21 Torrey Kelly, Winters Mill 18:24.6; 22 Ethan March, Westminster 18:28.2; 23 Owen McMahan, Century 18:33.5; 24 Sam Evans, South Carroll 18:41.9; 25 Owen Budd, Westminster 18:45.1.

Teams

1 Winters Mill 25; 2 Century 49; 3 Westminster 76; 4 Liberty 86; 5 North Carroll 130; 6 South Carroll 134; 7 Manchester Valley 210; 8 Francis Scott Key 232.