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Weber Leads Civic Memorial To Madison County Cross Country Crown With Near-Perfect Score

The cross country meet at Triad High School provided a rigorous test for athletes from multiple Madison County schools.

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TROY - Max Weber of Civic Memorial was the small school individual champion, while Caleb Knobloch of Highland won the large school winner, as the Eagles and Bulldogs won the team titles of the boys Madison County cross country meet Tuesday afternoon at Triad High School in Troy.

CM won the small school crown with a near-perfect 18 points, with Roxana having 61 points to finish second, Father McGivney Catholic finished in third with 70 points, and Metro-East Lutheran had 81 points to finish fourth. Marquette Catholic, Madison, and East Alton-Wood River also had runners who competed in the race, but didn't have enough to record a team score.

Highland won the large school championship with 34 points, with Triad placing second with 40 points, Edwardsville finished in third with 45 points. Collinsville was fourth with 83 points, in fifth place was Granite City with 124 points, and Alton came in sixth with 149 points.

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Weber was the winner in the small school race, having a time of 15:39.3, with teammate Logan Kearbey second at 16:24.4, Anthony Hardin of Roxana was third at 16:24.7, fourth place went to Boden Duffy of the Eagles at 16:30.3, and teammate Jacob Cranford rounded out the top five with a time of 16:32.2.

Caleb Knobloch was the large school race winner, having a time of 16:02.7, with teammate Josh Knobloch second at 16:05.6, the Bulldogs' Donnie Miller finished third at 16:26.0, Chase Cummins of the Kahoks came in fourth at 16:27.4, and Caden Meier of Triad was fifth at 16:28.2.

Issac Cooper led the Redbirds with a time of 18:57.9, while Austin Jones came in at 19:47.5, and Elias Clark was in at 20:04.3. Carson Klasner led the Explorers with a time of 18:32.7, while Kanin Kelly was in at 22:44.2, and Jackson Dimitroff had a time of 31:11.8. along with Cummins, Collinsville had Daniel Gutierrez-Trejo in at 17:22.3, and Cooper James across the line at 17:58.5. Jack Whiteaker led the Tigers with a time of 16:53.8, while Colin Luitjohan came in at 16:56.4, and Ryder Schickedanz had a time of 17:07.9. Jack Shank and Lucas Abbot both led Metro-East, coming in at 17:38.7, while Dean Hemmer was right behind at 17:38,8.

The Griffins were led by Liam Schmidt. who's time was 16:55.6, with Connor Schmidt in at 16:59.9, and Aiden Schmidt was home at 17:49.8. Joel Farone led the Warriors with a time of 17:48.8, while Kyle Barham had a time of 19:10.5, and both Issac Beatty and Desmond Hart came in at 19:13.3.

Cooper Morales-Escobar was the lone runner for the Trojans, and was home at 25:15.9. To go along with Hardin's fifth place finish, the Shells saw Noah Crump in at 17;17.1, and Easton Johnson having a time of 17:18.5. In addition to Meier Triad's Michael Schram was in at16:37.5, and Sam Skirball had a time of 17:00.8. LeBron Reed led the Oilers with a clocking of 17:51.1, and Tavin Wardein had a time of 22:36.3.

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