Taylor University Invitational

Kokomo Tribune - Sunday, August 28, 2016

BY TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTS

Eastbrook won Taylor University's 10-team high school invitational with 58 points. Western was third with 84, Maconaquah was sixth (133) and Tipton was ninth (254).

Josh Everetts led Western with a second-place finish in 16:58. Alex Taylor was 15th (18:56), Andrew Granfield was 17th (19:09), Tyler Lechner was 18th (19:10) and Nate Nicholson was 36th (20:17).

"Twin Lakes ended up being one spot ahead of us, five points ahead of us. [I'm] a little disappointed we didn't get ahead of them because at two miles we were tied with them," Western coach Gary Jewell said. "We had a couple guys turn in season-best times, Nicholson and Jason Hampshire.

"[It's} hard to tell time improvement. We're getting "relative" improvement, you judge that by who you're ahead of this week that you weren't ahead of last week. Everetts ran a strong race again."