New Palestine High School

The New Palestine girls cross country team finished second out of 28 schools in the Red division at the Nike Town Twilight race Friday at the LaVern Gibson course in Terre Haute. Running on the State Finals course, the Dragons scored 91 places, and finished one back of champion Center Grove (90). Cathedral (109) was third, and Shorewood (Illinois) was fourth. Hailey Pardieck was second in 19:26.4, finishing 3.3 seconds back of the winner. Elena Daugherty (19:49.8) was sixth. Adi Smith was 14th (20:11.3), Abby Journay 17th (20:23.7) and Brynn Richey 55th (21:46.9). The Dragons boys were fifth out of 35 teams with 201 places. Center Grove (23), Delta (152), Evansville Mater Dei (184) and Brebeuf (193) were the top four. The Dragons were six places ahead of McCutcheon. Mike Bauer finished fifth in 16:32.7. Carson Cooper was 36th (17:36.4), Gabe Silvey 53rd (18:03.2), Zion Koch 60th (18:09.3) and Micah Jones 69th (18:15.6). The Dragons are next in action Oct. 11 at the New Palestine Dragon Invitational.