Runners from Hesperia, Pentwater and Walkerville competed in Friday's Baker Woods Late Season Invitational in Hesperia, taking on one of the more challenging courses in Michigan.
Bailey Case was the top county finisher overall, finishing in seventh in the girls' race and cutting a minute and a half off her time from last year's meet at Hesperia. She finished in 23:51.5. Also for the Falcons, Lily Smith was 26th (27:57.1), Maggie Jorissen was 43rd (30:54.1) and Valerie Smith was 44th (30:59.7).
Rokhaya Ruhstorfer led the Panthers with a 30th-place finish and a time of 28:38.1. Also finishing for Hesperia were Chloie Cryderman (48th, 35:59.1), Taylor Leeball (50th, 42:06.4) and Sarah Funk (51st, 51:32.3).
In the boys' race, Hesperia finished fifth out of the six scoring teams. Onyx Davila was the highest county finisher in the race, placing 12th for the Panthers with a time of 20:12.8. Drea Slosman took 33rd place (23:01.9) and Paul Winchel was 40th (23:54.7). Carter Fuentes set a personal best in his second varsity race and finished 56th (26:59.5), coming in just ahead of teammate Charles Shagonaby (26:59.9).
Walkerville had three finishers, topped by Ethan Schamber in 23rd place (21:29.6). Easton Flanery finished 61st (27:53.2) and Easton Wolgamott was 72nd (33:17.1).
Pentwater's two finishers were Tyler Zimmer in 27th (22:03.1) and Ben Roberson in 54th (25:20.1).
