Big Walnut’s Bethany Bogantz places 59th at Regional CC Meet

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Big Wal­nut senior Bethany Bogantz closed out her high school cross coun­try career by fin­ish­ing 59th with a time of 20 min­utes, 50.47 sec­onds at Saturday’s Divi­sion I Girls Regional Cross Coun­try Cham­pi­onships at Pick­er­ing­ton North High School.

Bogantz qual­i­fied to the Regional by plac­ing 15th in 20:30 at the Dis­trict meet held at Watkins Memo­r­ial High School.

Olen­tangy Lib­erty and Olen­tangy Orange both com­peted as teams, but the Patri­ots and Pio­neers failed to punch a team ticket to the OHSAA State Meet show­case. Lib­erty fin­ished eighth in the 16-team field while Orange fin­ished in the 14th spot.

Both schools will be rep­re­sented by indi­vid­u­als, one from each school, as Pio­neer senior Han­nah Hartzell qual­i­fied ninth to advance as an indi­vid­ual with a time of 19:15.51 while Patriot sopho­more Claire Wiles qual­i­fied with a 13th-place fin­ish in 19:22.83.

The top 16 indi­vid­u­als not on a qual­i­fy­ing team earned a spot in the State finals which will be held Sat­ur­day at National Trail Race­way in Hebron.

Posted by Gary Henery on Oct 31 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.