Connersville

The team competed at the Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference meet in Greensburg on Monday 9/28. The team had their best races of the season, with 10 of the 13 participants running personal best times! The girls only had 4 runners. Cree Slater won all-conference honors, with a 14th place finish in a time of 14:19. Essmae Brewer placed 17th (14:27 PB), Riley Smith was 33rd (16:28) and Leanna Paul finished 39th (18:11 PB) The boys had a great evening, placing 3 runners in the top 10 and 5 in the top 25. In spite of these outstanding performances, the Spartans finished 2nd by 6 points to the host Greensburg Pirates. Leo Moyer (1st) (10:32 PB) was the conference champion,outpacing team mate Desmond Shipman (2nd) (11:01) by 30 seconds! The pair torched the field with the 3rd place finisher 10 seconds behind Shipman. Clay Glover was 8th with a personal best 11:35, all 3 runners earned all-conference honors. Noah Frost was 18th (12:16 PB), Boyd Durstine 25th (12:38 PB), Landon Bales 28th (12:46 PB), Hunter Gregory 32nd (13:17 PB), Andrew Biehl 50th (15:15 PB),and Ryan Owens 56th (16:06 PB) capped the terric evening for the Spartans. The team travels to Liberty on Wednesday for the 7 team Union County Invitational.