Wood River High School senior Ben Stout and Jerome senior Mikesell Clegg captured their second straight wins on the prep cross country race circuit during the annual Minico Invitational 3.1-miler at Lake Walcott near Rupert.
Stout (17:11) was a 35-second winner over teammate Chase England (17:46) as the Wolverines of coaches Monte Brothwell and Heather Miller had 25 runners participating in Thursday's event.
Clegg (20:25) emerged a 36-second winner. Hailey senior Jade Atkinson (23:11) made a two-minute improvement over the previous meet to finish third.
Brothwell said, "We had a cool day and the lower times showed because of it. All runners ran personal bests over the last race and compared to last year's times at Lake Walcott."
Next: Wood River and the Community School host the Sun Valley Classic Friday, Sept. 9 on the Sagewillow Farms course, Elkhorn at Sun Valley. Results from Thursday's Lake Walcott meet follow:
Boys' team: 1—Jerome 25 points. 2—Wood River 38. 3—Minico 77.
Individual boys: 1—Ben Stout (WR) 17:11. 2—Chase England (WR) 17:46. 3—Terran Tolman (Jer) 18:05. 4—Blake Orchard (Jer) 18:07. 5—Brad Craig (Jer) 18;12). 10—Ketchum Wilt (WR) 18:52. 12—Nate Thomas (WR) 18:55. 13—Alex Gonzalez (WR) 19:05. 16—Cameron Bingham (WR) 20:57. 17—Ty Reinemann (WR) 20:58. 22—Connor Hayes (WR) 21:00. 23—Jake Adicoff (WR) 21:03. 28—Jimmy Holcomb (WR) 24:14. 31—Nash Hartdegen (WR) 25:34. 33—Michael Flolo (WR) 27:48. 34—Rodrigo Candila (WR) 28:03. 35—Xavier Haemmerle (WR) 29:09.
Girls' team: 1—Jerome 27. 2—Wood River 42. 3—Minico 66.
Individual girls: 1—Mikesell Clegg (Jer) 20:25. 2—Kayla Green (Jer) 21:01. 3—Jade Atkinson (WR) 23:11. 7—Janel Passey (WR) 24:25. 9—Dani McLaughlin (WR) 24:48. 10—Grace Gorham (WR) 24:55. 13—Kaitlyn Landis (WR) 25:34. 16—Brooke Lawrence (WR) 25:50. 18—Avery Closser (WR) 29:12. 28—Mariah Stout (WR) 31:06. 28—Lex Shapiro (WR) 31:06. 30—Karady Beck (WR) 31:10. 32—Alex Begley (WR) 33:20.