District cross country: Yarnell, SW boys win districts, 25 Scioto Countians qualify for regional meet

The South Webster Jeeps' cross country program continued to represent Scioto County in a standout fashion during Saturday's OHSAA Southeast District Championships in the sport, with South Webster's Luke Yarnell winning the OHSAA Division IV District Meet individually and the Jeeps claiming one of the two OHSAA Division IV District team titles alongside fellow Division IV competitor Racine Southern as part of a day full of district championship action at Rio Grande University on Saturday.OHSAA DIVISION IV SOUTHEAST DISTRICT BOYSYarnell, who ran a 16:29.6 to lead all competitors in the OHSAA Division IV Southeast District Boys Cross Country Championship Meet, won his race by nearly 32 seconds as the only runner in the field to run a time under 17 minutes.Ultimately, all five runners who ran in the race for South Webster ran marks under 18:30, with Aiden Rowland's 17:29 placing the junior sixth overall and Griffin Allard's 17:56 helping the sophomore claim 12th on the leaderboard. Cade McGraw and Liam Osborne helped the Jeeps finish 19th and 20th with times of 18:12 and 18:20. Rowland and McGraw each ran personal bests.West, who finished 10th as a team, also advanced to the OHSAA Division IV Regional Meet in Pickerington by finishing inside the top-11 team cutoff.The Senators were led by West's Noah Fannin, who notched a personal best time of 18:23 to place 22nd, while the Senators' David Brickey added in a personal best of 18:48 to claim 29th overall.Gabe Nichols (67th, 21:05), Josef Begley (72nd, 21:26) and Gabe Swanner (105th, 24:16) rounded out the West scorers, with Nichols and Begley each running personal best times.Lastly, Valley's Landon Bond and Ty Wilson were each individual qualifiers, with Bond running a 18:52 and Wilson posting a 19:26. The pair finished 32nd and 41st respectively as two qualifying individuals of 22 not on a qualifying team.OHSAA DIVISION III AND OHSAA DIVISION IV SOUTHEAST DISTRICT GIRLSIn the OHSAA Division III and OHSAA Division IV Girls Cross Country Championship races, a total of six individuals qualified for the regional meet in their respective classes.Along with the six boys cross country individuals who advanced to regional competition for South Webster — the five who ran in Saturday's race plus Mason Warner — three additional runners will be heading to the OHSAA Division IV Regional Meet as the Jeeps' Addison Lancaster (23:15), Teagan Allard (23:38) and Eden Smith (24:08) all advanced with their times as the trio were among the top 22 fastest individuals not on a qualifying team. Lancaster, Allard and Smith finished 29th, 35th and 39th in the race, respectively. All three runners were among 16 individual qualifiers out of the Southeast District.In the OHSAA Division III realm, Portsmouth's Ryan Purcell (20:13) placed third while Wheelersburg's Giselle Miller (21:17) and Maci Campbell (23:24) finished 19th and 30th to lead the girls cross country regional qualifiers in Division III. They were among 16 individual regional qualifiers out of the Southeast District.OHSAA DIVISION III SOUTHEAST DISTRICT BOYSIn the OHSAA Division III boys race at Rio Grande, Portsmouth's JJ Purcell (16:07), Ian Putnam (16:39) and Reid Click (16:55) all advanced to district competition, finishing fourth, sixth and 10th to lead the Division III realm.Along with the Portsmouth trio, Northwest's Alex Cantrell (17:06), along with Wheelersburg's Grant Kallner (17:15) and Carter Evans (19:44) also qualified. Cantrell placed 14th, Kallner 18th and Evans 56th. All six runners took up over a quarter of the 22 individual qualifying spots.