The Greene County girls placed seventh and the boys placed 14th at the Panorama cross country invitational Thursday at the Panora Golf Club.
Sophomore Conner Allender paced the Rams with a time of 23:52, good for 16th place. Other places and times and were Kassie Lamoureux, 25th, 24:39; Makala Kafer, 29th, 25:22; Ashlee Harmeyer, 54th, 26:49; Izzy Bravard, 55th, 26:49; Tieryn Tucker, 87th, 31:35; and Kirsten Lamoureux, 90th, 32:01. Allender and Kafer are both sophomores; all other runners are juniors.
The winning time was 19:43 set by Peyton Pogge of Tri-Center.
Team scores for the girls were Panorama 53, Earlham 90, Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center 99, Tri-Center 143, Nodaway Valley 145, Madrid 170, Greene County 179, Woodward-Granger 240, Mount Ayr 246, Southeast Valley 257, Boyer Valley 22, Van Meter 295, Ogden 302, CAM 335, Colo-NESCO 423, and Woodward Academy 513.
The Rams finished 14th of 20 teams in the boys race.
Sophomore Luis Velazco was the first Ram across the finish line in 20:41, good for 52nd place. Other places and times were sophomore Connor Brus, 65th, 21:06; senior Jack Bryson, 66th, 21:12; freshman Logan Woodruff, 68th, 21:24; junior Trevor Lebeck, 93rd, 22:21; junior Brian Hardaway, 112th, 23:52, and freshman Jayden Carstensen, 116th, 24:13.
The winning time was 16:59 set by Sean McDermott of Madrid. His team placed first with 31 points.
Other team scores were Nodaway Valley 86, A-C/GC 149, Des Moines Christian 153, Earlham 196, Tri-Center 201, Mount Ayr 238, Van Meter 240, Woodward Academy 258, IKM-Manning 275, Ogden 284, Woodward-Granger 313, West Central Valley 341, Greene County 344, Boyer Valley 352, Southeast Valley 376, Panorama 377, Ankeny Christian Academy 434, Colo-NESCO 484, and CAM 514.
The Rams will run at Roland-Story next Thursday, Sept. 20.
