Fairhope High swept the 2017 Baldwin County Cross Country Championships at Loxley Municipal Park to win the boys and girls team titles. Lexie Williams and Jared Touart ran to individual titles for the Pirates
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Baldwin County XC Championships 2017
Fairhope wins team, individual county crowns
Pirates down the stretch: Fairhope's Lexie Williams, left, and Jared Touart make the final turn toward the finish line at Loxley Park Oct. 19 in the 2017 Baldwin County Cross Country Championships.
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2017 Baldwin County Championships Female Medalists
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2017 Baldwin County Championships Male Medalists
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The Champs! 2017 Fairhope High Pirates hoist the varsity girls team trophy.
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The Champs! 2017 Fairhope High Pirates hoist the varsity boys team trophy.
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2017 Indy Baldwin Champs Lexie Williams and Jared Touart of Fairhope at Loxley Municipal Park.
LOXLEY, Ala. — Fairhope High swept the 2017 Baldwin County Cross Country Championships at Loxley Municipal Park to win the boys and girls team titles Oct. 19. The Pirates also claimed individual county crowns with Jared Touart and Lexie Williams breaking the tape in the boys and girls races. The Top-15 individual runners each received 2017 medalists honors. The 2017 championships were hosted by Daphne High.
Fairhope’s girls placed four more runners in the top 15 after Williams to score a 27 with a total team time of one hour, 45 minutes and 50.04 seconds.
Daphne ran a total time of 1:53:31.91 for the runner-up score of 71. Bayside Academy narrowly edged Spanish Fort 86-88 for third with a total-time advantage of 6.2 seconds. Baldwin County girls took fifth with a 113 ahead of newcomer St. Michael Catholic’s county debut finish of sixth.
The Fairhope boys had six runners cross the line in the top 10 for a first-place total time of 1:28:11.30 and a winning score of 18. Bayside’s Admirals out ran their cross-town and meet-hosting rival Trojans 72 (1:32:53.70) – 93 (1:34:28.30) for the runner-up trophy. Spanish Fort’s Toros were fourth with a 108 and Foley’s Lions rounded out the top five with a 123.
Fairhope head coach Tim Yahr was proud of his runners for putting in the hard work and extra miles all year.
“Especially proud of all my seniors. Girls and boys. But everybody has worked hard and the older ones have been great leaders for the younger ones. Everybody really worked to make this season special and did their best. They put in the time to make it happen,” he said.
“Daphne did a great job setting up the course and my assistant coach Rion Nabors really helped out as did all the parents and families. It really means a lot.”
BALDWIN COUNTY BOYS 5K CHAMPIONSHIP
Runner School Finals Points
11 Ernest Ladd, Bayside Academy 18:08.10 11
12 Christian Martinez, Foley 18:19.60 12
13 Allen Loefstedt, Spanish Fort 18:25.30 13
14 Conner Moore, Spanish Fort 18:34.70 14
15 Lance Paquette, Daphne 18:39.90 15
16 Matthew Covington, Baldwin County 18:40.60 16
17 Dawson Koehler,Fairhope 18:41.10 17
18 Sam Ingraham, Gulf Shores HS 19:02.20 18
19 Jamie Villa, Foley 19:06.60 19
20 Jack Phelps, St. Michael 19:09.80 20
21 Chris Stuck, Daphne 19:11.20 21
22 Henry McFarland, Fairhope 19:17.30
23 Benjamin Lane, Bayside Academy 19:21.80 22
24 Taylor Hartley, Bayside Academy 19:22.50 23
25 Brian Pempel, Spanish Fort 19:24.30 24
26 Luke Dobbins, Bayside Academy 19:27.40 25
27 Ethan Blanton, Daphne 19:27.90 26
26 Erin Lassere, Daphne 23:53.89 24
27 Anna Schmidt, Bayside Academy 24:07.24 25
28 Elizabeth McCracken, Spanish Fort 24:15.25 26
29 Olivia Wilder, Spanish Fort 24:27.58 27
30 Kayla Johnston, Spanish Fort 24:51.06 28
Cross Country moves to the post season next with sectional meets.
Bayside will host the Class 3A Section 1 races Nov. 2 at Loxley Municipal.
The Class 6A and 7A sectional are set for Langan Municipal Park in Mobile on Nov. 2. Visit AHSAA.com for updates.