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MIKE MARSEE

Contributing writer

Abigail Bastin of Lincoln County won her second consecutive regional cross country championship Saturday, finishing first in the Region 2A-5 girls race in Mill Springs.

Bastin, a freshman, had a winning time of 19:50 over the 5-kilometer course at Cave Lake Park that was 49 seconds faster than she ran a year ago in her regional race on the same course.

Five local teams qualified for the state meet Friday and Saturday in Paris. The Mercer County boys and Boyle County and Lincoln girls qualified in Region 2A-5, and the Danville boys and girls qualified in the Region 1A-5 meet in Lexington. Additionally, six local runners earned individual qualifying berths.

Marshall Hart and Clayra Darnell of Mercer, Max Germann of Boyle and Addison Hill of Danville Christian finished in the top 10 in their respective races.

Below are other regional cross country results from Saturday. (q-individual state qualifier)

REGION 1A-5

At Masterson Station Park, Lexington

BOYS

Team scores (15 teams, 6 qualify) — 1. Lexington Christian 64; 4. Danville 144; 11. Burgin 254; 13. Danville Christian 289.

Area runners (102 runners) — 15. Thomas Swing (Danville) 19:19.45; 19. Hyrum Swing (Danville) 19:40.71; 27. Lake Adkins (Danville Christian) 20:00.19; 30. Nathan Doyle (Danville) 20:20.92; 31. Banks Bratcher (Danville) 20:24.38; 42. Grayson Domidion (Danville Christian) 20:44.74; 47. Karl Strand (Burgin) 21:08.01; 48. Jacobe Taylor (Burgin) 21:12.03; 52. Noah Meyer (Danville Christian) 21:39.56; 53. Brendan Stanley (Burgin) 21:40.88; 57. Barron Bradshaw (Burgin) 22:03.84; 58. Andrew Lamb (Danville) 22:05.93; 59. Hudson Taylor (Burgin) 22:28.58; 64. Noah Wetmore (Danville) 22:50.20; 65. Oliver Longenecker (Danville) 22:57.63; 79. Langston Beasley (Bugin) 23:47.60; 86. Jacob Rushing (Danville Christian) 24:49.48; 95. Colson Petrie (Danville Christian) 26:49.95; 97. Michael Spivey (Danville Christian) 27:06.85; 101. Graham Domidion (Danville Christian) 27:53.16.

GIRLS

Team scores (9 teams, 5 qualify) — 1. Lexington Christian 20; 5. Danville 121; 8. Danville Christian 193.

Area runners (69 runners) — 8. q-Addison Hill (Danville Christian) 21:42.53; 20. Lucy Kate Gibson (Danville) 23:47.00; 21. Ellie Pennington (Danville) 23:56.67; 31. Abbie Pennington (Danville) 25:09.01; 34. Ella Bottom (Danville) 25:32.50; 35. Chloe Strysick (Danville) 25:40.22; 36. Anna Watson (Danville) 25:52.53; 39. Raegan Taylor (Burgin) 26:32.94; 44. Sami Bottom (Danville) 27:09.33; 46. Emily Fox (Danville Christian) 27:28.82; 51. Isabella Perez (Danville Christian) 28:19.59; 55. Lincoln McCoy (Burgin) 28:48.76; 61. Grace Meyer (Danville Christian) 30:38.92; 65. Anderson Taylor (Burgin) 32:08.30; 66. Susanna Domidion (Danville Christian) 32:26.68.

REGION 2A-5

At Cave Lake Park, Mill Springs

BOYS

Team scores (11 teams, 6 qualify) — 1. Corbin 61; 6. Mercer County 137; 8. Boyle County 187; 9. Lincoln County 207.

Area runners (81 runners) — 6. Marshall Hart (Mercer County) 17:45.90; 10. q-Max Germann (Boyle County) 18:06.12; 20. Sam Lewis (Mercer County) 18:45.21; 28. q-Elijah Johnson (Lincoln County) 19:44.62; 31. Brady Howard (Mercer County) 19:54.39; 32. q-Andrew Pence (Lincoln County) 19:58.26; 36. Cannon Bostick (Boyle County) 20:07.40; 37. Toby Sallee (Lincoln County) 20:09.06; 40. Ian Alcorn (Mercer County) 20:24.17; 41. Adam Cooper (Boyle County) 20:24.63; 42. Mason Sanders (Mercer County) 20:25.99; 48. Gus Correll (Lincoln County) 20:59.84; 51. Wesley Allahham (Boyle County) 21:27.01; 53. Grayson Sumner (Boyle County) 21:46.83; 55. Landon Bryant (Mercer County) 22:06.45; 56. Baron Wiley (Boyle County) 22:07.62; 57. Karson Kerr (Mercer County) 22:08.89; 67. Triston Boyd (Lincoln County) 24:14.72; 68. Hayden Godsey (Boyle County) 24:26.09;

GIRLS

Team scores (10 teams, 5 qualify) — 1. Corbin 40; 4. Boyle County 127; 5. Lincoln County 148; 7. Mercer County 162; .

Area runners (72 runners) — 1. Abigail Bastin (Lincoln County) 19:50.95; 6. q-Clayra Darnell (Mercer County) 22:24.84; 12. Aubrey White (Boyle County) 23:32.16; 13. q-Katherine Lewis (Mercer County) 23:32.79; 21. Laykin Gatton (Boyle County) 24:18.14; 23. Alexis Slone (Lincoln County) 24:19.89; 28. Izzy Phillips (Boyle County) 24:45.63; 29. Olivia Sousis (Lincoln County) 24:45.85; 31. Adriana Polhemus (Mercer County) 25:19.75; 36. Cailyn Godsey (Boyle County) 25:53.77; 47. Keyera McFarland (Lincoln County) 26:56.73; 49. Emery Larson (Boyle County) 27.25.11; 57. Lilly Kurtz (Boyle County) 29:01.17; 64. Maggie Powell (Boyle County) 29:59.71; 65. Lindsay Jessie (Mercer County) 30:45.65; 66. Shelby Smith (Lincoln County) 31:04.29; 67. Kinsley Reed (Lincoln County) 31:06.38; 68. Kaylee Pendleton (Mercer County) 32:27.02; 70. Madison Crook (Lincoln County) 33:42.88; 71. Daisy Nowlin (Mercer County) 34:28.15.