Okkerse, Wardle, Tri-County cross country winners
St. Joe's boys and girls overall team champs
STRATHROY, Ont. - Nash Okkerse and Kian Wardle are TVRA Tri-County cross country champs.
Okkerse stretched his winning streak in high school cross country to 10 races, taking the junior boys title, at the Thames Valley Regional Athletics (TVRA) Tri-County championships October 22 at Strathroy District Collegiate.
Wardle finished first for the fourth time in five races this season, capturing the novice boys god medal.
The St. Joseph's Rams are the boys and girls overall team champions, including landing the novice girls, junior girls and senior boys titles.
Parkside are the novice boys team champs, with Lincoln Okkerse, Alex Menlove, Luke Johnson and Reed Clark, finishing consecutively eighth to 11th.
Led by Adam Van Wychen and Matthew Charlton placing seventh and eighth respectively, the East Elgin Eagles won junior boys. Noah Wilton, in 13th and Preston Bergen, 15th, round out the team.
Strathroy swept the individual gold medals on the female side, with Emma Graham winning novice girls, Emma Boucher, junior girls and Avery Van Will, senior girls.
Strathroy's Sam Stinson won senior boys, with Dorchester Beavers Curtis Willick finishing second.
Dorchester's Sophia Smith was third in novice girls, while teammate Tara Crinklaw, placed ninth in senior girls.
Siddharth Kalamahuntla and Armani Moniz, was third and fourth, respectively leading the Rams' senior boys.
St. Joe's placed four runners in the top six in novice girls, led by Della Berg, who was second.
Andie Spicer and Nevaeh Facey finished fourth and fifth, respectively, to lead the Rams' junior girls.
Van Will and Samantha DeMars, who was third, led Strathroy to the senior girls team crown.
WCI's Kohltan Scott won the para race.
For each division, the top two teams, along with the top 20 individuals not on the top two teams, advance to WOSSAA, back at Strathroy, October 29.
At the TVRA Central championships, Makayla Varallo of Thorndale, with Medway High, placed second in the junior girls race, October 22 at Springbank Park in London.
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