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Cross country: Oak Ridge boys finish second, Etheridge third

Posted at 7:40 pm September 18, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge Jake Etheridge State Cross Country Nov. 7, 2015

Oak Ridge senior Jake Etheridge, left, who is shown above running in the state Class AAA cross country meet in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, finished third in the Cherokee Classic in Knoxville on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. (File photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

Note: This story was updated at 8:15 p.m.

The Oak Ridge boys cross country team finished second in a meet in Knoxville on Saturday, and senior Jake Etheridge finished third.

The Oak Ridge girls finished 10th.

The boys, competing against 35 other teams, were running shorthanded because Daeton Byars, the team’s number three, didn’t run, and Jose Villegas ran it as a workout rather than as a race, Oak Ridge Coach Allen Etheridge said.

“He’s just getting his legs back under him,” Etheridge said of Villegas.

Finishing in first place at the Cherokee Classic in Knoxville was Daniel Boone High School with 61 points. Oak Ridge was second with 83 points.

Behind them were Maryville (128 points), Knoxville Catholic (146), and Farragut (160). [Read more…]

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Van Druff, McGhee finish No. 4, No. 8 in state cross country meet

Posted at 10:18 am October 23, 2014
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Jordan Van Druff

Jordan Van Druff, an eighth-grade student at Jefferson Middle School in Oak Ridge, finished fourth in a state cross country meet in Knoxville on Saturday. (Photo by Nicholas Rhodes)

 

KNOXVILLE—It wasn’t the result that Jordan Van Druff wanted.

He trained diligently at the beginning of the season for this state cross country meet, hoping to finish first. Van Druff also put in extra miles, running up to 25 to 30 miles per week at his peak.

On Saturday, the eighth-grader at Jefferson Middle School led all runners near the one-mile mark in a two-mile boys race during the Tennessee Middle School State Cross Country Championships at Victor Ashe Park in Knoxville. But then, one by one, three runners passed him.

“I didn’t get what I wanted,” said Van Druff, who was undefeated in all of Jefferson’s regular season races during his three-year middle school career. “I wanted to finish first.”

Still, it was an improvement from his fifth-place finish last year and a sixth-place finish the year before, said his mother, Reneé Van Druff.

Van Druff, who finished with a two-mile time of 11:42.55, was one of two Oak Ridge runners who made All State during the state cross country championships on Saturday. The other was Faith McGhee, a fourth-grade student at Woodland Elementary School. She finished eighth in the one-mile girls race during the Tennessee Elementary School State Cross Country Championships. McGhee had a time of 6:19.50. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cross Country, Elementary School, Middle School, Slider, Sports, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: All State, championships, cross country, Dalton Morgan, Darbey Marczak, Davis Bove, Faith McGhee, Farah McGhee, Harper Russell, Jeb Jones, Jefferson Middle School, Jordan Van Druff, Josie Fellers, Mark Van Druff, Muskaan Vohra, Nicholas Rhodes, Niki Narayani, Oak Ridge High School, races, Renee Van Druff, Robertsville Middle School, runners, Sam Roberts, Sasha Neglia, Shellie Fellers, Silas Winders, Tennessee Elementary School State Cross Country Championships, Tennessee Middle School State Cross Country Championships, Victor Ashe Park, Woodland Elementary School, Zoe Marczak

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