November 2, 2008

The Girls Cross Country team finished second in the State at the 5A Championship Meet on November 1st.

Freshman Emily Chastain, sophomore Katelyn Walker, eighth grader Lauren Ashworth and eighth grader Emma Warren were named to the girls All State team.

October 25, 2008

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WINS DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP

Katelyn Walker, Lauren Ashworth, Emily Chastain, Makenna Morris and Emma Warren were named to the girl's All-District team.

The team will compete for the State Championship on November 1st.

September 7, 2008

Madison Central High School"s Cross Country teams opened the 2008 season Friday at the University of Southern Missssippi Invitational at Tatum Park in Hattiesburg.

The Jaguar team won the meet over 14 schools from Louisiana, southern and central Mississippi. The Jags scored 50 points, which was 30 points better than runner-up Sumner, LA.

Leading the way for the Jags was junior Adam Ruhl who won individual honors for his first career win as a Jaguar cross country runner. Finishing close behind was sophomore Lee Moseley who placed 4th. The other Jaguar scorers were junior Andy Robinson finishing 13th, Daniel Gilstrap next at 14th, and Timothy Clark who finished 20th.

The Lady Jags also turned in a good season opening performance finishing in a tie for second with Presbyterian Christian Academy from Hattiesburg. Unfortunately they placed third due to the tiebreaker rule which goes to the top finishing 6th runner on the tied teams. St. Thomas Aquinas from Louisiana won the girl's competition with 41 points over the Lady Jags' and Presbyterian's 71.

The Lady Jags top runner is junior Katelyn Walker who is best known on the track where she is a two time 1600 meter 5A State Champion. Katelyn is also an All State Cross Country runner. Katelyn had to settle for 3rd place in the two mile race.

Newcomer, Lauren Ashworth, an 8th grader at Madison Middle was the next Lady Jag finishing 8th. She was followed closely by freshman Emily Chastain who came in 10th. Another MMS 8th grader, Emma Warren placed 19th, and a seventh grader, Makenna Morris was the team's 5th finisher with 33rd place.

The teams travel to Pontotoc for the Pontotoc Invitational next Saturday where they will meet many of Mississippi's northern schools.

September 2, 2008

The MC Cross Country team ran a warm up race at the reservoir on Friday, August 22 in the Surviving the Sizzle race. After training since the first of July, the runners were ready to test themselves in a race situation. Since there were few high school runners in the race, the race is not indicative of any future endeavors. Most of the runners in local races are casual runnners and not seriously training. The Jaguars and Lady Jags had 26 runners entered in the race. Thirteen of them placed in the top 21 in the race. Several of the team's top runners were unable to enter the race due to previous commitments.

Junior Adam Ruhl led the way for the Jags with a second place finish in the race. Sophomore Lee Moseley and senior Madison Kymes were 4th and 5th. Freshman Madden Becker,senior Daniel Gilstrap, and freshman, Pierson Crowder were 7th, 8th, and 9th. Drew Hall, a junior placed 11th.
Three Madison Middle School runners were 12th, 14th and 16th. Graham Ahlrich, Mac McElrath, and Ryker Lackey were the leading Jr. Jags.
Freshman Richie Reedy and newcomer Jacob Hendley placed 17th and 18th.

Lauren Ashworth, running her first race as a Lady Jag, was the second female runner in the race. Makena Morris, a seventh grader was the 4th female finisher.
The remaining runners and their finishes are: Austin Baney - 25th, Britian Morris - 26th, Ian Magee - 30th, Jake Woody, and Thomas Wiygul right behind them, but passed through the 4 mile chute, so they got left out of the scoring. Brad Dixon placed 38th and Michael Pace 43rd. Savannah Thorpe and Lauren Sutton were the 10th and 11th females and Julia Ramsey was the 29th female finisher. there were 76 women in the race, and 84 men.

The first scholastic meet for the teams is the University of Southern Mississippi Invitational on Friday, September 5th. The Lady Jags will be there to repeat as the team champions having won the meet last year. The Jags were runner-ups in 2007.