Ballard High School junior Alex Bowns takes the lead during the Oct. 13 cross country meet. Bowns would finish second overall with a personal record time.
Both the boys and girls Ballard High School cross country teams finished third in a four-way meet against Garfield, Skyline and Roosevelt.
The boys finished with 69 points to Garfield's winning 37 in a race that featured seven of the 10 top-ranked runners in KingCo. Skyline had 39, and Roosevelt had 83.
Junior Alex Bowns placed second with a time of 15:59, setting a new personal record by nine seconds. Junior Victor Bailly came in ninth in 16:47, and senior Blair Scott was behind him for the Beavers, finishing 12th with a time of 17:01.
The girls team had 91 points, ahead of Garfield's 98 but behind Skyline with 23 and Roosevelt with 52.
The top Ballard finishers in the girls race were senior Natalie White, who placed 11th in a time of 20:57, sophomore Rachel Livengood, who placed 13th with a time of 21:02, and sophomore Anna Mirenzi, who placed 14th with a time of 21:07.
Livengood and Mirenzi set new personal records by 35 seconds and 73 seconds respectively.
Click here for complete results from the meet.
Next up for the Ballard High School cross country teams is the KingCo 4A Championships at 2 p.m. Oct. 21 at Lincoln Park.
