By John Raffel
Corespondent
CLARE — Clare boys and girls cross country teams won the Montabella Invitational on Wednesday.
Clare boys beat Montabella 17-43 and the girls prevailed 20-39.
For the Clare boys, Conner Schmidt (17:54.8), Joseph Haupt (18:32.20) Sutton Klaus (18:39.8) and Christian Villa-Bilton (18:43.7) took the first four places. Carter Chapman (20:40.8) was 12th and Mason Somers (20:45.5) was 13th.
For Clare girls, Sophia Buzzelli won with a 21:18.4. Lauren Leis was second at 21:54.7, Quinn Drake fifth at 22:08.1 and Emma Stotzel sixth at 2240.1 Ava Robinson was ninth at 23:32.2 and Leah Lewis11th at 24:00.3.
At the Veterans serving Veterans meet in Cadillac on Sept. 26, Clare girls were third among nine teams and the boys seventh among eight teams.
Buzzelli was fifth in 19:41.8 for the girls. Joseph Haupt was 14th for the boys in 17:11.7.
