Redmond, Overlake and Bear Creek runners are set for state | Prep cross country

Published 3:19 pm Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Redmond’s boys cross-country team finished second at 4A districts last Saturday at South Whidbey High and qualified for the state meet this Saturday at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.

On the 3.1-mile South Whidbey course, Devin Wulff led the way for the Mustangs with a fifth-place time of 16 minutes, 16 seconds. Other members of the Redmond boys team were Michael Schach, Joel Keddie, Kyle Nickum, Jacob Montiel-Bravo, Dylan York and Eric Nickum. Alex Chen will be replacing Eric Nickum as Redmond’s seventh runner at state, Nickum will be its first alternate and Brian Granillo will be second alternate.

On the Redmond girls’ side, Emma Bury (19:16) goes to state with a ninth-place finish at districts. The Mustang girls took sixth.

OVERLAKE

Overlake’s Jack Toland, Cole Tsang and Peri Wallent are going to the 1A state meet.

Toland (17:30, eighth) and Tsang (17:50, 16th) led the fifth-place Owl boys team at districts and Wallent (21:37, 24th) led the eighth-place girls squad. For Toland and Tsang, it will be their second time at state; for Wallent, it will be her first trip to the big meet.

The boys team was nine points shy (there were four allocations to state) of making it to state together.

BEAR CREEK

Bear Creek’s Angela Tzen qualified for the 1A state meet with an 11th-place finish in 21:02 at districts. Her time was a season personal best.