While cross country is primarily an individual sport, it took a full team effort from Covington Catholic on Saturday to take home a region title in Paris.
CovCath won the Class 2A, Region 4 meet at the Bourbon County Park in Paris by three points over the other Colonels, Bourbon County on their home course.
Will Sheets and Joe Mayer took the top two spots with Jackson Germann finishing eighth, Braden Franxman 10th and Jack Salyers 11th. Joel Barczak and Jack Dwyer finished 12th and 13th, respectively.
Sheets took the meet in a time of 15:05, Mayer at 15:30. Germann (16:34), Franxman (16:41), Salyers (16:46), Barczak (16:58) and Dwyer (17:01) followed.
Even with the sixth and seventh man not counting towards scoring for CovCath, it shielded Bourbon County from moving up spots as their fifth runner finished 14th.
Covington Catholic will look to repeat as the 2A state champ this weekend at the state meet at the Kentucky Horse Park on Saturday. The Class 2A boys meet starts at 1:15 p.m.
Lloyd Memorial’s boys finished seventh with 177 points. Aden Miller and Landon Marshall qualified for the state meet for the Juggernauts. Miller finished 23rd, Marshall 32nd.
Lloyd’s Savannah Gerding placed 20th in the girls meet and qualified for the state meet for the second time.