WP X-Country Athletes Shine

CLARKSTON - Waits­burg Prescott cross country runners attended the Seaport Invite on Saturday.

This was a large meet with lots of schools participating including three schools from the local Blue Mountain Dis­trict:

Dayton, Asotin and St. John-Endicott.

The course was at Beach­view Park, adjacent to Clarkston High School

"It was another terrific day," reported coach Joanna Lanning. starting with our two middle school boys par­ticipating in the 2,000-meter race. Out of 90 middle school boys, Trent Hafen placed third with a time of 8:23 and 7th grader Trey Potts in his first-ever race was 26th with a time of 9:33. "Both boys raced hard, and I was very proud of them," Lanning said. WP's three freshman boys did not participate due to illness and injury, so the run­ners did not field a team. "But their three older teammates shined," Lanning said, especially sophomore Seth Deal, who finished sec­ond

in the varsity boys 3-mile race with a time of 16:29 out of 90 racers. He was less then a minute behind the winner, Adam Storey of Moscow, who had a time of 15:54. "Seth ran very, very hard and very smart," Lanning said. "He established his po­sition

pretty early in the race and never wavered. He looked great from start to finish." Last September Deal's time was 18:28 at this same meet. Seniors Nick Carpenter and Matthew Montgomery were 29th and 36th respec­tively

with times of 18:21 and 18:35.

On the girls side, senior Is­abel Benito did well placing 14th out of 57 participatants with a time of 21:46.