Cross Country

The Savannah Morning News selects area athletes for Best of Preps annually. Flag Football placed two athletes on the 1st Team All-Greater Savannah Area for Fall with Sofia Pablo and Eva Beauchamp honored. Honorable Mentions for Flag were Hayden Anderson, Reese Bailey, Harper Judelson, Ana Vi Miller and Anna Shelton. Aarya Patel and Charlie Pope were selected to the Cross Country Honorable Mention Teams. Second Team honors for Harris Stone for Volleyball and Olivia Aliotta, Lilla Brennan and Mary Duvall Sumner were Honorable Mentions. Rooster Bing was selected to the 1st Team for Football. Second Team honors were KJ James, Barton Mixon, Andrew Nicholson, Cash Ramirez and Tyler Scott. Hayes Beaver, Carson Cook, Athon Herrin, Hyers Holland, Ray Ray Jackson, Brooks Kleinpeter and Josh Washington were selected to the Honorable Mention Team. Congratulations!

Charlie Pope finished 5th (18:47.99) in the Region 3AAA Cross Country Meet and qualified for the GHSA State Championship. Charlie finished 68th in the GHSA Class AAA Meet on the hilly course in Carrollton. Charlie was selected by the Region coaches as 1st Team All-Region. Second-Team honors were awarded to Devin Beauchamp and Aarya Patel. Congratulations! 

The 1st Annual SPAL Cross Country Championship was held at Benedictine's course on Saturday, October 14th. Leading the Hornets was 7th grader Owen Edwards with a 14:05.02 time (7th). Scoring for the Hornets were 8th graders Joey Stolba (15:34.26 - 24th), Robert Howard (16:41.06 - 39th, William Howard (16:42.60 - 40th and 7th grader Buller Claiborne (18:02.84 - 46th). Fifth Grader Claire Woebler was 18th for the girls (17:00.33) and 7th grader Isabella Carter was 23rd (17:37.83). Congratulations!

At the St James/Hancock XC Invitational, the 7th/8th grade boys scored a 3rd place finish in the 2-mile race. Finishing 6th for the boys was Joey Stolba at 14:19.66. Also scoring were 8th Owen Edwards (14:37.86), 21st Robert Howard (16:03.94), 22nd Will Howard (16:29.77), 38th Philip Baiad (18:50.12) and 42nd Buller Claiborne (19:32.52). In the 5th/6th races Claire Woelber was 4th (16:26.39) and Paul Baiad was 35th (18:31.37). Isabella Carter finished 12th in the 7th/8th girls with a time of 17:39.62. Go Hornets!

The first meet of the season for Cross Country was at Islands High School. Finishing times for the boys were: Devin Beauchamp 18:40.9, Kent Burnett 20:34.3, Payton Brown 22:05.9, Miles King 24:22.9 and Paawan Patel 27:58.2. Finishing first for the girls was Aarya Patel 21:41.0 followed by Sarah Catherine Gilpin 24:16.8, Ansley Cheshire 24:28.1, Bryn Sorge 26:17.8 and Suri Desai 27:09.3. Their next meet is the Stinger Invitational at SCPS on September 14.