Yates Center's Hadley Splechter set the tone and his
teammates followed as both wrote a glorious chapter in their school's history
Saturday at the class 2A state cross championships at the Wamego Cross Country
Club
Splechter became the first state cross country champion ever
from Yates Center, winning in 16:05.1. His teammates then one-upped him as they
plowed toward the finish and the school's first-ever team championship.
The storyline coming in was whether Yates Center could get
its fourth and fifth runners to the finish line in time to hold off a very good
Bennington boys team.
As it turned out, they could. Freshman Austin Moffet was
33rd and senior Kobe Forsyth was 47th to give Yates Center a team score of 61.
Pre-meet favorite Bennington, which got a tenth-place finish from Keelan Aita
(17:52.9) and 16th from Caleb Koehn (18:09.1), placed second in the team
standings with 76 points.
Yates Center also got a sixth-place finish from Colin Bedell
(17:28.1) and...