On Tuesday, September 8, Macon County hosted a Mid-State Cross Country Association All-Comers meet. There were six middle school teams in the boys’ race and four middle school teams in the girls’ race. In the boys’ race, Mason Doss finished first with a time of 12:54.0. Thomas Massey finished in fourth place with a time of 14:28.4. Ryan Avera finished in sixth place with a time of 15:09.8. Colton Eden finished in twenty-sixth place with a time of 18:31.0. Nick Hill finished in thirty-fifth place with a time of 20:47.2. Jacob Doss finished in thirty-ninth place with a time of 22:24.7. Kannon West finished in forty-fourth place with a time of 23:38.1. Despite having three finishers in the top ten, the MCJHS team finished third with five of the six team scoring. Merrol Hyde Magnet won the meet with 43 points; Ellis Middle was second with 50 points; Macon Co. was third with 72 points; Carroll-Oakland was fourth with 89 points; Jo Byrns was fifth with 121 points; and Mt. Juliet Christian did not score as a team. In the girls’ race, Katie Swindle finished second with a time of 15:07.7. Tori King was fifth with a time of 16:46.4. Loraine Ilia was sixth with a time of 17:20.5. Bailey King was tenth with a time of 18:05.7. Mikayla Tranthem was eleventh with a time of 18:24.1. Abby Kepley was fourteenth with a time of 20:19.5. Maddy Miller was fifteenth with a time of 20:23.7. Sandy Willson was nineteenth with a time of 22:05.9. Harley Whittemore was twenty-first with a time of 26:25.8. In cross country, a team’s top five finishers’ places make the team points. In the event of a tie, the sixth runner on the team is used to determine the tie-breaker. In the girls’ race, Macon Co. and Ellis tied with 34 points. Abby Kepley broke the tie with her fourteenth place finish over Ellis’s sixth runner in sixteenth place. Macon Co. finished in first place; Ellis was second; Jo Byrns and Merrol Hyde did not have enough runners to have a team score. Some members of the team will participate in Makin’ Macon Fit on Saturday, September 12. Then, the team will travel to Milton, TN to participate in the Milton Invitational on Saturday, September 19.

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