Providence Christian girls and boys dominated the Class 4A, Section 1 cross country meet in Montgomery Thursday, with Millie Talmadge and Hannah Jacobs finishing one-two to pace the girls team’s
The Houston Academy girls also qualified for the state meet during the section, finishing third. The top four teams at the section meet advanced to the Nov. 5 state championships at the Oakville Indian Mounds in north Alabama.
Talmadge and Jacobs, two Providence sophomores, led the 5K girls race with Talmadge winning in 19 minutes and 18.68 seconds and Jacobs finishing runner-up in 20:06.21. PCS’ Madelyn Patterson, a junior, just missed making it a top three sweep, but finished fourth in 20:16.78, just edged out at the finish line by Orange Beach’s Brooke Barnett by .14 of a second.
The Providence Christian boys winning effort was led by sophomores Cole Smith and William Stanley and senior Banks Folger, who finished third through fifth behind LAMP’s Agustin Lemuz and Landon Perdue . The three PCS runners all broke the 17-minute barriers in career-best times with Smith clocking in at 16:26.94, Stanley in 16:30.80 and Folger in 16:44.26. Smith’s time was fifth best in PCS history and Stanley’s the seventh best.
The Geneva boys also had runners at the meet with Seth Barnes the top finisher in 35th place with a school-record 20:35.91 time for the Panthers, who in their second year as a program. Sophomore Talia De Hoyos and freshman Anabelle De Hoyos finished 23rd and 24th and eighth grader Hannah Nichols 27th.