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• Tupelo girls struck gold for the 7th consecutive year, with 25 points (1-2-3-7-12) and a 15:41 average for 4k. With only one senior, at the #7 position, and two 7th-graders, the future shines brightly for the Golden Wave. Harrison Central earned the silver with 113 and Madison Central the bronze with 118.
  
  

  Tupelo		State titles wrapped up, Coach Nathan Hall says, "It's Yoo-Hoo time!"

• Tupelo fr Katherine Steinman led the charge in 15:07.51, moving up a spot from last year’s runner-up finish. Teammates fr Catherine Holman and 7th-grader Haley Page were next in 15:26.55 and 15:36.25, as Tupelo swept the top three.
  
  

  Katherine Steinman		Top 8, (left to right)

• Tupelo boys scorched the competition for the 7th year in a row and 14th overall, with 17 points (1-2-3-4-7-8-9) and a 16:31 average for 5k, followed by Madison Central with 102 and Brandon with 131.
  
  

  Tupelo

  
  
• Tupelo soph Max Holman nabbed individual gold in 15:57.34, to go along with his 2006 silver. Tupelo sr Rob Ellis, the defending champ who’d missed some training and meets with a sore hip, returned to duty to take 2nd in 16:05.94, followed by teammates jr Gordon Ellis in 16:13.59 and fr Jeff Wilson in 16:59.36 to round out the top 4.
  
  

  Top 7, Max Holman 1st (left to right)

• The top three girls teams remained the same as last year’s tight battle (2006 - Pearl 58, Saltillo 59, Pontotoc 62), but the order changed. This year the Pontotoc girls came out on top, scoring 52 with a 16:23 average. Saltillo took 2nd again with 67, ahead of Pearl (which had won the last four) with 69 for 3rd.
  
• With defending champ Cory McGee moving down to 3A, Oxford jr Anne Threlkeld seized the opportunity, clocking 15:20.01 for individual gold, a 27-second improvement on her 2006 silver-medal performance. Pearl soph Haley Brown was 2nd in 15:29.04, ahead of freshman teammate Kaileigh Hunt in 15:35.77 for 3rd.
  
• Saltillo boys romped to its 3rd straight team title, with 29 points (1-2-3-7-16) and a 17:05 average, followed by Pontotoc with 72 and Pearl with 83.
  
  

  Saltillo, with Coach Charles Covington (right)

  photo courtesy Julie Covington

• Saltillo sr Zach Covington was an easy winner in 16:11.41. That’s 2 in a row for Zach, and 3 for the Covington family, as brother Seth took the 2005 crown with Zach earning silver, and Zach closes out a career which also saw him 4th as a freshman and 13th as an 8th-grader. Fellow Saltillo seniors Richard Feist (16:48.24) and Hunter Flanagan (16:54.28) kept Zach company this year, finishing 2-3.
  
  

  Zach Covington 1st, Richard Feist 2nd, Hunter Flanagan 3rd (right to left)

  photo courtesy Julie Covington

• Pass Christian soph Cory McGee, the winner in 4A the last 2 years as well as 15th in Foot Locker Nationals and the 6th fastest freshman miler ever, reconfirmed her in-state dominance with a sterling 14:02.28, breaking the course record for the 4th consecutive time. Corinth jr Katlyn Will posted an outstanding 14:29.80 for silver, with soph teammate Lauren Foropoulos clocking 15:14.36 for bronze.
  
  

  Cory McGee on the final straight

• Corinth girls claimed its 5th straight team crown with 31 points, and averaged 16:18. Kossuth nipped Pass Christian for 2nd, 68-70.
  
• Ripley sr Josh Chessor defended his title, clocking 16:59.95, ahead of teammate sr Dusty Talley in 17:28.13 and Corinth sr Spencer Rickman in 17:52.23.
  
• Kossuth boys captured team gold with 33 points, followed by Corinth with 34 and Carthage with 66.

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