The Fayette

County Cross County Championship was held at Sandy Creek High School on

Tuesday afternoon and all four county high schools competed. McIntosh's

girls and Fayette County's boys were the favorite to win, but anything

can happen in sports.

McIntosh's

girls did win the county championship. They have won the meet every year

since 1990. The Lady Chiefs did it this year with 15 girls finishing in

the top 20, seven of which finished in the top 10. McIntosh finished with

26 points overall, while Starr's Mill placed second with 55 points, Sandy

Creek placed third with 81 points and Fayette County finished with --

points. The overall champion of the girls race was McIntosh's Elizabeth

Gardner who finished with a time of 19:56.

Starr's Mill

had two finishers in the top 10, Ashley meredith, who placed second overall,

and Katie Hughes, who placed 10th. Heather Kreibel finished 16th overall.

Sandy Creek's Rae Lynch placed third overall, while Fayette County's Amy

Eller finished 13th overall. McIntosh had the fourth through ninth place

finishers, they were Mary katherine Crofton, Morgan Cunningham, Judy Thomasson,

Dana Van Winkle, Keri Pendergrass and Megan Spencer.

The boys race

also went to McIntosh, which had won the meet every year since 1990 with

the exception of last year. McIntosh finished with 28 points overall,

while Fayette County placed second with 33 points, Starr's Mill finished

third with 78 points and sandy Creek finished with 98 points. Fayette

county's Trey Alverson was the overall champion of the race again this

year, finishing in a time of 16:11.

It was a close

race with a fairly even distribution of runners. Fayette County had six

runners in the top 20, while McIntosh had seven. Starr's Mill had four

runners in the top 20 and Sandy Creek had three. Fayette County's Jon

Riley finished behid trey Alverson, while McIntosh took the third through

sixth positions with Randy hutchinson, Shaun Emery, Ben Brantley and Ian

Hardy. Starr's Mill's Les Page finished seventh, wile Fayette County's

Adam Pekarske and Blake Riley finished eighth and ninth respectively.

McIntosh's Tony Luciano finished 10th.

McIntosh does

not have a meet this weekend and will rest up for the region meet which

will be held Oct. 21 at Sandy Creek High School. Fayette County will compete

this weekend at the Bleckley Invitational in Macon.

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