cross country

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Mabank High School’s varsity boys’ and girls’ cross country teams are recognized at Mabank ISD school board meeting Nov. 17, as both teams qualified for Regional competition this past season. Team members are June Guerrero (from left), Mia Rivero, Karmine Rodriguez, Israel Wainionpa, Carter Jistel, Daniel Banks, Eli Slack, Morgan Turner and Coach Ashley Currington, with Sofia Rodriguez, Ana Gallegos, Isobel McSperitt, Keylee Bohannan, Aiden Beaudoin, Miguel Barajas and Asher Embry not pictured.

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The Eustace High School girls’ cross country team holds the UIL Class 3A third-place trophy at the State Meet in Round Rock, which for 3A was held Oct. 31. The team is coached by Josh Sypert and assisted by Cody Taylor.

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The Kemp High School varsity boys cross country squad, coached by Mark Driskell (right), is the team champion of the Cross Roads Invitational Oct. 1, with Arnie Perez finishing in first place individually, followed by Benito Robles (fifth place) and Damian Rodriguez-Diaz (10th place).

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Mabank High School senior Trista Etheridge qualifies for the UIL State cross country meet in Round Rock Nov. 1 after finishing fifth overall at the Oct. 21 Regional meet in Grand Prairie. In addition, the Eustace High School girls’ and boys’ cross country teams won their Regional and advanced to State. 

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The Eustace boys cross-country team celebrates a third-place finish at the UIL State Cross-Country Meet held in Round Rock Nov. 3-4. Ryan Porte (center) places seventh in the state individually.

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Eustace boys’ cross country advances to regional competition and brings home some new hardware after achieving a perfect score and a clean sweep of the top seven finishers in district competition Oct. 11. Junior Ryan Porte (center) is district champion.

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Kemp cross country runners travel to Crandall Sept. 9 to compete in Crandall’s invitational meet. Boys and girls teams placed sixth in competition.

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The Eustace boys’ varsity cross country team finished first at Regional Competition and will advance to the State competition Saturday, Nov. 5 at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. Paige Row also qualified to advance to the State competition.

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The Cross Roads girls’ varsity cross country team are coming home Regional champions with Cassie Turner placing first overall at the Regional XC meet in Huntsville Oct. 24. Callie Turner places third. The boys’ varsity team places 18 out of 22 teams and 162 other runners.

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The Mabank Panthers boys’ and girls’ varsity cross country teams excel at the 16-4A District meet in Canton Oct. 11. The boys’ team takes home the team championship with the girls finsihing second with both teams advancing to the Regionals Oct. 24 at Joe Pool Lake.