![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s a great service for our community and a great service for all of our cross country runners in this area.” “We have a great turnout again,” said Greenville High School Principal Stan Hughes. Versailles finished seventh in the middle school boys, Union City, IN placed 9th and Greenville finished 11th. Versailles finished third in the middle school girls and Greenville finished 13th. South Adams won the small school boys division and Liberty Center won the small school girls division.įort Loramie won the large school girls division and Tippecanoe won the large school boys division. Versailles’ Matt Cromwell led Darke County runners with a 18:06.5 time for a 26th place finish. Versailles finished fifth in the small boys division, Ansonia finished 18th and Mississinawa Valley placed 21st overall. The kids work hard on their home course and represent their community well.” We had many personal records with many kids dropping nearly a minute from their race times last week. “Isabelle Rammel finished third overall in the large division girl’s race,” Lind said. Greenville finished fifth in the large division girls with the Lady Wave’s Isabelle Rammel finishing third with a time of 19:38.6 and Tessa Fine finishing 21st in 22:10.3. Madelyn Holzapfel finished 19th for Versailles in 21:34.1 and Lauren Menke finish 24th with a time of 21:45.5. Versailles was the top Darke County school in the small girls Division with a fifth place finish followed by Ansonia in 11th place and Bradford coming in 12th. “It is a team effort between Wayne Health Sports and Greenville Rescue to come together and provide good care for all the athletes.” “Monitoring the finish line just to catch anybody that collapses or has trouble breathing. “It’s a lot of ice bags, a lot of aches and pains and we stretched a few people out – most of it is just ice,” said Greenville athletic trainer Alyse Grilliot. Alex Subler, Matt Karns and Jacob Watson all earned medals for placing in the top 25.” Riley Emeric was runner-up in the large school division race. The high school boys team got in the podium in third behind Tipp City and Northmont. “Our Greenville athletes had a great day,” Lind noted. Gabriel Stevens finished 30th in 18:11.1, Luke Rammel 39th in 18:41.3, Noah Stevens 42nd in 18:43.1 and Joey Thomas 44th in 18:52.7 to round out the top 50 finishers. Riley Emerick led Greenville by finishing second overall in 16:23.1, Alex Subler finished 15th in 17:26.0, Matt Karns finished 17th in 17:38.9, Jacob Watson finished 25th in 18:00.4, Seth Shaffer finished 26th in 18:00.5. The top Darke County team was the Greenville boys, who finished the runner up in the large school division to Tippecanoe. My favorite part of the day is riding in the Gator in the first race watching 200 athletes from a lot of local schools charging forward and seeing all of our hard work pulling off a great race.” ![]() “Unfortunately we lost a few school this year. “Information was sent out early to schools regarding course changes doe to construction in the park and paving of the bike path,” Lind said. The course required some layout changes due to road and sidewalk construction taking place in the area of the invitational. It’s just a great coming together of hard working and supporting people to make this a great day for our school and community.” “This event would not be possible without the cross country parent volunteers. “EMS, the police department, city parks and recreation, street department, our AD Aaron Shaffer and the Masonic Lodge are all behind the scenes heroes,” Coach Lind added. “The city was incredibly helpful in managing the construction challenges – the construction crew had to pull out of the area on Wednesday to allow us to prepare the Course.” “The Greenville Cross Country team pulls off the event, and it is a lot of coordination of services,” said Lind. “This event definitely shows the pride and support that we have from our community members and our city and different organizations throughout Greenville,” Shaffer added. Events like this can’t come off without a ton of help, the city, the street department, rescue, all of our coaches, family volunteers, our students and our athletes come out.” “We are over 1,000 runners, high school and middle school. “This is easily the biggest event in terms of participants and spectators,” Greenville athletic director Aaron Shaffer said. “Thank you to everyone involved in making Treaty City Invitational a great day for our community,” said Greenville head cross country coach and meet manager, Stephanie Lind. GREENVILLE – The Greenville Treaty City Invitational was greeted by perfect weather with nearly 1,100 runners taking to the Greenville City Park and streets in the annual cross country meet. ![]()
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