The NCSSM-Morganton cross country team had a stellar day during the Catawba River 1A/2A/3A Conference championship meet on Wednesday at Frank Liske Park in Concord.
The Dragons ultimately captured both the girls and boys titles, finishing ahead of Mountain Island Charter, Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, and Piedmont Community Charter in that order.
Ten of the top 15 runners in the girls race were from NCSSM-M, led by first-place finisher Ellie Miller with a time of 21:00.3. The Lady Dragons’ other top-15 finishers were as follows: Nora Price (second), Alexandra Hexemer (third), Amelia Fleury (fourth), Silvia Mayces (fifth), August Gordon (seventh), Zoey Stille (eighth), Lilah Johnson (ninth), Gracie Toplitz (13th), and Clara Michel (14th).
In the boys’ race, the top five NCSSM-M finishers were runner-up Will Evans, third-place Alexander Hruby, sixth-place Samuel Freeman, eighth-place Aiden Marshall, and 11th-place Noah Thomas.
NCSSM-M previously participated in the annual Freedom Invitational on Sept. 19 in Morganton, where top performers for the Dragons included Evans (first in boys, 17:09.00), Hruby (third in boys), Hexemer (fifth in girls), Fleury (seventh in girls), and Dax Clark (15th in boys).
The county’s other four high schools also competed in the Freedom Invitational, with additional top-15 finishers including Patton’s Elisabeth Sawdy (second in girls) and Julia Niehoff (11th in girls) as well as the host Patriots’ Frank Harrelson (10th in boys), Nick Chiota (14th in boys), and Ashlyn Davis (14th in girls).
Also recently, Freedom’s Harrelson (first in boys), William Russ (second in boys), Chiota (sixth in boys), Edwin Rodriguez (seventh in boys), Jameson Smith (ninth in boys), and Anna Gagliardo (ninth in girls) were standouts during a Northwestern 6A/7A Pre-Conference Meet on Tuesday at Southside Park in Hickory, and Draughn’s Adelei Morrow (15th in girls) was her school’s highest finisher during a meet hosted by Hickory High School on Wednesday at Southside.
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