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By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
The Boiling Springs girls cross country team won the Coaches Classic Championship division title in Columbia on Saturday. The Bulldog cross-country runners edged out Bluffton to take the top spot in the division.
The race was run on the Clemson Sandhills Research Center grounds, the same track that will host the state championships in November. The field for the Championship division included 46 teams from around the state.
Boiling Springs Sage Kosiorek continued his fine running early in the season by earning a third place finish in the boys International Division race. Only Mark Blackmon of Fort Mill, the defending 4A state champion and Aaron Ramirez of Woodmont, the defending 3A state champion, finished in front of the Bulldog sophomore.
“I think it proves he is capable of running with the top runners in the state,” said Boiling Springs cross-country coach Steven Olejnik. “ Mark Blackmon has been a great runner and Aaron Ramirez is the best in 3A so being in the ball park with these two great runners says a lot about how hard Sage has worked since track season and through the summer,” he said.
Last weekend Kosiorek finished fourth and was the top area runner in the Eye-Opener Race in Spartanburg.
The win by the girl’s team was the first victory in an important statewide meet for the Bulldogs. “We haven’t had a first place in along time so this is very exciting,” said Hannah Burkholder who finished in fourth place. I know I ran faster than I had before for a race at this distance,” said the senior.
Anastasia Kolesnitchenko finished third in the race for the Bulldogs. “I just tried to stay with Hannah for the whole race. I knew if I was close to her I could have a good finish,” said the Bulldog sophomore.
Both Kolesnitchenko and Burkholder ran their best times ever on the demanding course. “We all worked so hard this summer and it is going to help us to have a good season,” said Kolesnitchenko. “I think we can have a good year and get back here for the state championships,” she said.
Adding points for Boiling Springs to help the Bulldogs claim the victory were Kyra Woodyard, Logan Lindsey, Madison Burkholder, Madeline Petty and Allison Thomas.
Logan Morris of Spartanburg Christian was eighth in the girl’s race. The Spartanburg Christian team finished fifth while the Landrum boys and girls teams were eighth in their races.
The Dorman boys team finished third in the International Division race. Chase Wolfe and Ian Kimbrell who finished twelfth and thirteenth in the event led the Cavaliers.
The Spartanburg boys team finished eighth in the same division with Matthew McPhail coming in fifteenth as the top individual Viking’s runner.
The top area girl’s runner in the International Division race was Evie Tate of Spartanburg who finished seventh while Dorman’s Katie Inclan was eleventh. The Cavalier girl’s team finished sixth while Spartanburg was ninth in the girls team standings.
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