High School Sports, Russellville Golden Tigers, Sports
RHS qualifies for state cross country
1- Haylee Hamilton, Cecilia Juan, Maria Bahena, Naydelin Romero-Momentey, Katherine Peacock, Sofia Bahena, Katie Skidmore qualify to compete as a team at the state cross country meet.
The RHS Girls Cross Country team has qualified for the AHSAA State Championship Meet the past two years, since the sport was established at RHS in 2014. This year will be no different, as the girls team and several individual boys qualified to compete at the Oakville Indian Mounds, just east of Moulton, Saturday beginning at 8 a.m.
At the sectional meet Nov. 3 RHS posted a strong showing. Following are the runners, their places and times:
Girls
Naydelin Romero-Momentey, 21:47.51, fifth place
Sofia Bahena, 24:01.29, 19th place
Cecilia Juan, 24:58.68, 25th place
Katie Skidmore, 25:48.99, 31st place
Haylee Hamilton, 26:02.23, 32nd place
Maria Bahena, 26:54.63, 41st place
Katherine Peacock, 30:05.92, 52nd place
2- Daniel Montiel, Justin Howard and Charlie Felix will also compete at the state meet.
Boys
Daniel Montiel, 18:10.33, fourth place
Justin Howard, 19:23.49, 17th place
Charlie Felix, 19:25.72, 18th place
Romero-Momentey, Coach Kevin England said, has four Top Five finishes this year, highlighted by her win at the Helena Invitational last month.
Montiel, who had one Top Five finish and three Top Ten finishes this season, qualifies for the AHSAA XC State Championship Meet for the second year in a row. He finished 34th at the state meet last year.
