Gordon Central girls run at state meet

The Gordon Central High School girls cross country team ran at the state AA meet last weekend in Carrollton.

The Lady Warriors finished 19th out 30 teams, scoring 570 points.

Pace Academy, which also won the boys AA state championship, took home the girls trophy by scoring 27 points.

Pace Academy had three of the top five runners including the winner and the second-place finisher and their five runners that counted in the scoring all finished in the top 12.

Lovett High School was second with 61 points and Bleckley

County was third with 107.

Gordon Central High freshman Kaity Hames led her team and was 41st (23:07.05) in the

field of 197 runners over the 3,000-meter course.

Junior Arlene Gutierrez was second for the Warriors (26:43.46)

with one of the final times under 27 minutes.

Timn Godbee All three of the Gordon County high schools were represented at the state meets last weekend in Carrollton. Both the Calhoun boys and girls clubs were there along with the Gordon Central girls while the Sonoraville boys had one runner at the meet along with one Gordon Central runner.