This week in the Tiger cross country team traveled to Marlow, OK this past weekend to compete in the 24th Annual Outlaw Invitational Hosted by Marlow High School.  This meet served for two main purposes; to compete against runners and teams we do not normally see in this area and also get a chance to run the regional course before the regional meet scheduled for October 25, 2008. This meet featured many of the top teams in 5-A and
6-A as well as 4-A schools.
                The lady Tigers had one runner medal in the large field of  85 runners with Shelby Hayes Placing 28th with a time of 14:42. Stefanie Almeida and Brittany Gallegos placed
37th and 44th Respectively. Cynthia Ochoa ran well, running her second fastest time of the season, placing 69th place finish. The Lady Tigers ran against several 4-A teams and placed 3rd  out of 4 teams competing, with Marlow placing 4th and Weatherford placed 12 points ahead of the Tigers. Douglass's 232. Overall the Lady Tigers finished in 10th out of 13 teams.
                The Boys Team ran well considering this was a fairly tough course to run. Onve again the tigers were paced by Josh Pierce and Nick Ramos Who finished 27th and 30th respectively in the large field of 96 runners. Trevor Bowers, Peter Corral, and Hiram Villa rounded out the next three finishers for the team. They Placed 36th, 47th, and 50th.
                The tigers were not able to meet their goal team time at this meet, but placed ahead of all the 4-A Schools competing in the meet. This meet consisted of 3 of the top 14  teams in 6-A, with 7th ranked 6-A  contender Edmond Santa Fe winning the meet with 21 team points, followed by  West Moore, and Norman. The Tigers placed 6th at the meet out of 13 teams and finished with 179 Team points, well ahead of 4-A rival  Weatherford with 259 points. Other teams the Tigers placed ahead of were Chickasha, Altus, Duncan, Waurika, Lawton Ike and South Moore.
               The Tigers have  one meet left  to finish out their season as they prepare For the regional meet. You can catch the Tigers running at Lakin, KS this Saturday. The meet is located at the Lakin Golf Course and will start at 10:00 a.m. This meet features a freshmen and sophomore race and a junior and senior race. We  hope to see you there.
               The Tigers also have their new fundraiser cross country T-shirts available for sale at $10.00. They have adult sizes  from S-XXL. You can contact the school at 580-817-0219  and ask for Coach Brown or you can catch the team selling them at the remaining varsity football
games.
               To view the complete  Marlow CC Meet results visit www.ohstrack.com and click on results and  click on the Marlow Meet for October 4th.

Thanks for your continued support
Coach Brown and the Tigers Cross Country Team

        



Randy Williams, Principal
Dan Turner, Assistant Principal
Darryl Smith, Assistant Principal

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