A pair of Beaufort High runners notched top-three finishes and May River’s boys finished fifth in the team standings Saturday at the Lowcountry Invitational at Mullet Hall on Johns Island.
Beaufort’s Shannon Smith was runner-up in the 5K girls race with a time of 19:34 — 14 seconds behind champion Emma Russum of Dobyns Bennett (Tenn.) — and Marlon Belden finished third in 16:09 to lead the Eagles in the 5K boys race.
Charlize Antia (19:57) placed sixth and Anna Brown (22:10) cracked the top 50 to help Beaufort High’s girls place 11th among 33 teams.
May River’s boys finished fifth among 36 teams with Owen Andrews (10th, 17:03) and Tristan Kaplan (14th, 17:15) leading the way. Beaufort High was 14th, as Maxwell Davis (23rd, 17:28) and Nash Mills (42nd, 18:00) joined Belden in the top 50. Bluffton was 19th, led by Armando Macias Jimenez (76th, 18:36), and Hilton Head Prep was 30th, as Beckett Jones (173rd, 20:31) led the way.
On the girls side, May River finished 18th and was led by Ashlyn Babkiewicz (22nd, 21:00), while Ava Gerschutz (50th, 22:12) led Bluffton to a 22nd-place finish.