The Marion Center Boys cross country team qualified for the state championship meet with a second place finish in the District 6 Class A championships, and a number of Heritage Conference runners qualified as individuals.
For the Marion Center boys, the contingent at the state meet will include Hayden Fox, who led the way for the Stingers with a 17th place finish, at 18:16. Silas Pollock was 21st in 18:29, Landon Spence was 27th in 18:57, Eric Slovinsky was 28th, in 19:02, and Patrick Sleppy was 30th in 19:03.
Individual qualifiers in Class A boys included United’s Kaz Stokes, with a second-place finish in 16:57.6. Also making it to the state meet next Saturday will be Cambria Heights’ Logan Paronish, who finished 5th, and Homer-Center’s Blake Lucas, who came in 11th.
In Class A girls, Purchase Line’s Payton Wannett finished fourth to qualify for the individual state meet. Also qualifying were United’s Payton Wannett, in fifth, Cambria Heights’ Sierra Hoover (7th), United’s Olivia Henning (8th) and West Shamokin’s Paige McCarthy (12th).
In girls 2A, Marion Center’s Macie Miller qualified with her sixteenth place finish.
The state championships will be held at Big Spring High School in Newville, Cumberland County, next Saturday.
DISTRICT 6 CLASS A, AA CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS RESULTS:
GIRLS A:
https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/meets/80005/events/xc/2940006
BOYS A:
https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/meets/80005/events/xc/2940007
GIRLS AA:
https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/meets/80005/events/xc/2940002
BOYS AA:
https://live.gingerbreadtiming.com/meets/80005/events/xc/2940002
