Greene County sophomore Noah Hinote qualified for the Oct. 28 Class 2A State Cross-Country Meet north of Ft. Dodge at Kennedy Park at 2:45 p.m. Hinote and the rest of the Rams ran on Thursday in a Class 2A Coed State Qualifying Meet held deep in southwest Iowa at Shenandoah. The top three teams for girls and boys and top 15 female and male runners all qualified for State. Hinote qualified by finishing in eleventh place in the boys’s five kilometers (3.1 miles) race in 17:33.26, a new record for the boys’ program since forming as Greene County in 2011.

Coach Jeff Lamoureux’s boys finished sixth among 14 squads and the girls were ninth in a field of 13.

Hinote was followed by senior Ethan Frederick at 18:14.57, good for 27th place. Next for the Rams was sophomore Gavyn Winters, 33rd in 19:11.11, junior Kolby Angell, 39th in 19:26.84, and 48th place Carter Hinote, a freshman, who ran 19:49.90.

The Greene County girls were led by senior Olivia Shannon, 30th in 23:45.69, followed by Autumn Stevens, 33rd in 24:04.13, Ava Minnehan, 50th in 26:22.54, Ava Jablonski, 56th in 26:52.06, and Leah McCormick, 73rd in 30:36.64.

Hinote will run in the 2A boys’ race on Friday, Oct. 28 at 2:30 p.m.