Heritage cross country places 9th at Cowchip Classic

By Fred Kroner

The Hawks placed ninth on Saturday (Sept. 4) in the Chrisman Cowchip Classic cross-country invitational.

The 26-school event was a flighted race where the No. 1 runners from each school ran only against each other, with other races held for the second through seventh runners from each school.

Heritage was ninth with a score of 295 points. The meet champion was St. Joseph-Ogden with a score of 68 points.

The best Heritage time of the day was by Zach Ruwe, who was 11^th in the race for No. 1 runners with a 3-mile time of 18 minutes, 23.9 seconds.

Heritage’s lone medalist was Hunter Montgomery, who earned a fifth-place finish in the race for No. 3 runners. His time was 19:16.1.

The team’s other competitors were: Rowan Denmark-Collins (11^th in No. 2 race at 19:24.9), Robert Holloman (ninth in No. 4 race at 20:15.9), Aidan Ashbrook (ninth in No. 5 race at 20:46.3), Lukas Carey (ninth in No. 6 race at 21:40.9) and Cohen Sands (12^th in No. 7 race at 23:05.9).

Heritage will return to action on Wednesday (Sept. 8) against Neoga at Mattoon’s Lake Land College.