May River’s Owen Andrews won the boys race, and the Sharks narrowly missed out on the team title Saturday at the Waccamaw Warrior XC Invitational at Stables Park in Pawleys Island.
Andrews ran a personal-best 5K time of 15:47 to edge Spartanburg’s John Bolinger by seven seconds for the individual title, but Spartanburg nipped the Sharks by four points for the team crown. May River’s Colin Keck finished 13th in 16:47, followed by Sean Hamby (18th, 17:07), Mills Campbell (19th, 17:08), Tristan Kaplan (27th, 17:15), John Rosenblum (36th, 17:35), and DJ Robinson (37th, 17:39).
May River’s girls finished eighth among 18 teams. Ashlyn Babkiewicz ran a personal-best time of 20:16 to finish 12th, followed closely by teammate Gracyn Drury (20:32) in 15th. Hailey Horton (61st, 22:28), Taylor Gilmore (75th, 23:21), Anna Camden Shirley (78th, 23:36), Jessica Buskey (90th, 24:15), and Caroline O’Gorman (92nd, 24:18) rounded out the Sharks’ lineup.