The Dallas Center-Grimes Invitational Cross-Country Meet team titles both went to the host teams on Tuesday at DC-G high school west of Grimes. Running in tremendous weather conditions, the DC-G girls scores 65 points and the boys 71 to claim team titles.

Winterset placed second with 73 points and Greene County with third at 118 among 14 teams on the girls’ side. Panorama (Panora) was sixth, Earlham eighth, West Central Valley (Stuart) ninth, Kuemper Catholic (Carroll) tenth, and Van Meter fourteenth.

The girls’ individual champion was DC-G senior Madison Waymire in 15:42 for four kilometers. Brittany Sawyers of Winterset was third, while Allison Higgins of Greene County was fifth.

On the boys’ side, North Polk (Alleman) was second to DC-G with Kuemper sixth, Panorama eighth, Winterset tenth, Earlham eleventh, VM thirteenth, Nodaway Valley (Greenfield) fourteenth, Greene County fifteenth, and West Central Valley seventeenth.

The top finishers in the five kilometers race for boys was Peter Smith of NP in 17:23. Hunter Simmons of Panorama was eighth.

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