Warm and sunny conditions greeted runners on Thursday at Perry’s Leon Fox Coed Cross-Country Invitational north of Perry at the golf course. The meet is named after the late cross-country and wrestling coach for the Blue Jays.

Greene County had both its boys and girls teams competing with a fourth  place finish by the boys among 10 teams and the girls finishing eighth among nine squads. Winterset had 41 points to win the boys’ team title with 123 for the Rams. The Winterset girls also won a team title, this time with 42 points and the Rams had 241.

Senior Noah Hinote was the lone medal winner for the Rams. He placed eighth for the five ilometers (3.1 miles) in 18:25.12. Sophoomre Brady Carstensen was 16th in 19:13.38, followed by freshman Nick Black, 26th in 20:04.62, junior Carter Hinote, 32nd in 20:16.18, and 41st for sophomore Jayden Koller, 41st in 20:45.34. The boys field had 100 runners.

Freshman Rylee Mowrer led the Greene County girls with a 43rd place finish in 25:13.15. Next for the Rams was senior Ava Jablonski, 56th in 26:38.72, followed by sophomore Evelyn Snyder, 67th in 27:53.03, junior Leah Mc Cormick, 83rd in 32:22.02, and freshman Cora Powers, 88th in 34:02.50. There were 96 female runners.

Greene County coach Jeff Lamoureux told Raccoon Ralley Radio, “I continue to be impressed by the teams progress. While the times were a bit slower for the most part, I wasn’t surprosed as the Perry Golf Course has its share of hills and is a challenging course. Really proud of the effort and we’ll start working towards our next competition next Tuesday at Lake City.”