Wildcats place in top 10 at Kehoe Invitational / Cross country

The Oak Harbor High School boys placed sixth and the girls 10th at the Bill Kehoe South Sound Cross Country Invitational Saturday, Oct. 12, at St. Martin’s University in Lacey.

The meet featured 47 high schools, 20 middle schools and more than 1,300 runners split over eight divisions.

The Wildcat varsity teams competed in the Gold 5K (the highest division).

Puyallup won the varsity boys race with 99 points; Oak Harbor had 221.

Wildcat Dallas Riddle-Stevens placed sixth out 194 in 15:58 behind winner Josiah Nobles of Steilacoom (15:30.01).

Cooper Billiter was next for Oak Harbor, taking 14th (16:15.44). Ryan Metz was 53rd (17:15.25), Jacob Pearson 58th (17:19.81), Ralph Ramier 100th (17:50.25), Brandon Parham 111th (17:59.5), Anthony Herrera 137th (18:23.82) and John Pope 154th (18:46.55).

Ramier and Pope ran season-best times while the others all set personal records.

Oak Harbor’s Western Conference foe Marysville Getchell was the girls team winner with 103 points; the Wildcats tallied 248.

Gabby Martin of Life Christian Academy was the individual champion out of 111 runners in 18:13.71.

Oak Harbor’s Adrienne Root finished 19th (20:09.92) and second among freshmen. Evelyn Osburn took 48th (21:26.45), Courtney VanGiesen 56th (21:38.18), Natalie French 60th (21:46.37), Sonja Wichmann 85th (22:34.19) and Jessica Aguilar 106th (24:09.5).

VanGiesen, Wichmann and Aguilar all posted personal-record times.

The meet wrapped up the regular season for the Wildcats. Next is the Western Conference Championships at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at Lakewood High School.