Batesville High School

It was much cooler conditions tonight to race a 5K than it has been this month and the Bulldogs took advantage of it as they hosted North Decatur and South Decatur. The BHS girls took the top 12 spots in the race and scored a perfect score of 15 points, followed by North Decatur with 53 and South Decatur with 74. Nudging ahead in the last 400 of the race was freshman Ava Wade coming in first with a time of 21:13.9 with sophomore Jayla Bedel right behind her at 21:17.6. Then there was a nice line of Batesville blue with Caitlin Raver leading this group and coming in 3rd (21:55), with Maycee Holtkamp (22:09), Francesca Myers (22:20), Samantha Adams (22:30) and Paige Allgeier (22:54) following right behind taking 4th through 7th place respectively. The next set of 5 girls coming through the finish line were also the blue and white with Lexi Harris leading the way. She was closely followed by Reillee Adams, Aubrey Weberding, Charlotte Trossman and Audrey Diekmann, taking the 8th through 12th spots. On the boys side, the Bulldogs scored a low 21 points to North Decatur's 34. (South Decatur did not have a full team.) It was Ethan Rahschulte and Cash Myers racing to the finish to capture 1st place in a photo finish-both with a time of 18:54. Levi Essick was right behind them taking 3rd place with a finish of 19:02. Brody Gibson was the 3rd Bulldog to cross the finish in 7th place (20:23), followed by Ryan Benz-8th (21:13), Varshath Rajesh-11th (22:44), Lucas Gadberry-12th (23:03) and Tripp Hertel right behind in 13th (23:11). Eight runners ran personal bests and they were: Reillee Adams, Francesca Myers, Audrey Dieckmann, Aubree Spurlock, Lucas Gadberry, Ayden Meyer, Sam Patterson and Henry Jelinek.