By Fred Kroner
Senior Ava Knap was the front-runner for the St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ cross-country team on Saturday (Oct. 2) in Indiana’s Nike XC Town Twilight Meet.
She ran the 5,000-meter course in 19 minutes, 25.6 seconds and ended 17th in a field of 149 competitors.
Rounding out the Spartans’ contingent were: Kailyn Ingram (57th in 21:08.5), Addie Allen (95th in 22:06.2), Taryn Sexton (103rd in 22:19.4) and Kaytlyn Baker (143rd in 25:00.5).
SJ-O finished with a 357 score and placed 13th. Eighteen schools fielded full teams.
The meet winner was Columbus North (56 points) followed by Carmel (60 points).
The Spartans return to action on Tuesday (Oct. 5) in the Illini Prairie Conference meet at Stanford Olympia. In the most recent set of Illinois state rankings, compiled by milesplit.com, SJ-O was rated sixth in Class 1A.
