Two Oakwood/Salt Fork runners finished among the top 25 on Saturday (Sept. 25) in the 147-runner Spartan Classic girls’ cross-country meet in St. Joseph.

Sophomore Macie Russell was 19^th, with a 3-mile time of 19 minutes, 2.37 seconds.

Junior Allie Morris ended in 25^th in 19:25.15.

The Comets’ other participants were: Aubri Elliott (56^th in 21:00.65), Alyssa Wells (117^th in 25:14.74), Rylee Wright (125^th in26:57.40), Brylie Smith (135^th in 28:05.35) and Addie Wright (141^st in 28:27.25).

In a field of 19 teams, Oakwood/Salt Fork placed 11^th with a composite score of 308.

Team honors were captured by Tolono Unity (56), followed by Monticello (66) and St. Joseph-Ogden (87).

Oakwood/Salt Fork returns to action on Saturday (Oct. 2) in the Oakwood Invitational at Kickapoo State Park.

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Oakwood/Salt Fork had the top three runners in the Tuesday (Sept. 14) Vermilion County girls’ cross-country meet at Kickapoo State Park.

The individual champion was Macie Russell, who covered the 3-mile loop in 20 minutes and 45 seconds. She then helped the Catlin volleyball team to a two-set sweep at night.

The County runner-up was O/SF’s Allie Morris (21:30) with teammate Aubri Elliott running third (23:08).

Oakwood/Salt Fork won the team crown as no other schools had enough runners to be scored as a team.

The Comets’ other finishers were: Alyssa Wells (eighth in 27:56), Addie Wright (ninth in 30:11), Brylie Smith (10^th in 31:31) and Rylee Wright (11^th in 31:52).

Oakwood/Salt Fork will return to action on Tuesday (Sept. 21) at Urbana Uni High.

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The Oakwood Comets’ girls’ cross-country team ended third in the Saturday (Sept. 11) Paxton-Buckley-Loda Invitational.

Twelve schools entered full teams.

PBL was the team champion with 61 points. Runner-up Herscher had 65 points and was followed by Oakwood with 91 points.

The Comets had three top-10 performers in a meet with 66 runners.

Sophomore Macie Russell finished third in 20 minutes and 14 seconds for the 3-mile course. Junior Allie Morris was fourth in 20:24 and freshman Aubri Elliott was ninth in 21:57.

The team’s other competitors were Alyssa Wells (45^th in 26:55), Brylie Smith (55^th in 28:24), Addie Wright (60^th in 29:56) and Rylee Wright (64^th in 31:03).

All of the squad members posted their best times of the season and Morris registered a lifetime best.

All seven of the team’s runners are underclassmen.

The Comets return to action on Tuesday (Sept. 14) in the Vermilion County meet at Oakwood.

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Paced by two top-10 runners, the Oakwood/Salt Fork girls’ cross-country team placed seventh in the Saturday (Aug. 28) Saber Corn Classic, at St. Thomas More, in Champaign.

Junior Allie Morris was ninth individually, finishing the 3-mile course in 21 minutes, 48.2 seconds.

Just behind her was sophomore Macie Russell, 10^th in 21:51.8.

The team’s other participants were: Aubri Elliott (21^st in 23:15.0), Alyssa Wells (65^th in 30:18.9), Brylie Smith (68^th in 33:05.1), Addie Wright (69^th in 33:51.4) and Rylee Wright (70^th in 34:27.3).

The meet champion was Monticello with 32 points. Runner-up Urbana Uni High had 59 points. Oakwood/Salt Fork’s seventh-place tally was 149 points, but the team was six points away from a top-five finish.

Oakwood/Salt Fork will return to action on Saturday (Sept. 4) at the Chrisman Cowchip Classic.

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