Moody wins
Lady Mavs runner top in Class A/AA
Anderson County’s Ava Moody added a new title to her running resume by winning the TSSAA state champion- ship cross-country meet in Hendersonville on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Moody, who won the state title in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs in May at the Class AA championships in Murfreesboro, claimed the Class A/AA girls cross-country state championship Thursday afternoon.
She completed the 5,000-meter course in 18 minutes, 17.96 seconds.
“This was really big for our program, big for our team, big for our school and big for Ava,” Anderson County first-year Coach Mollie Fox said. “It was definitely a huge win. It was great for Ava just to get to experience that.”
Anderson County qualified as a team in both the boys and girls championships.
“I was really proud of the way everybody ran,” Fox said. “I was really pleased with everybody, especially the guys. On the boys’ side, we had some people dealing with illnesses. Some of them didn’t have their best races, but they fought through it and they hung in there and they competed.”
For the Lady Mavs, Rebekah Berg finished 58th (21:46.08), Morgan Haire was 80th (22:25.19), Marley Caldwell came in 87th (22:36.30), Morgan Lindsay took 196th (26:23.34), Emma Owens finished 203rd (26:53.53), and Cate Clotfelder was 211th (27:30.23).
The top finisher for the ACHS boys was Vance Laster, who came in ninth (16:20.92). J.J. Cutler was 20th (16:48.20), Cameron Hardy finished 93rd (18:19.78), Avian Laster was 115th (18:39.42), Toby Day came in 139th (18:59.20), Franklin Downs was 140th (18:59.93), and Michael Mattson finished 181st (19:58.83).