The Montgomery County and Wellsville-Middletown cross country teams will be competing in district championship meets this Saturday at Owensville and Van-Far high schools, respectively.

The Wildcats will compete in the Class 2, District 3 meet, while the Tigers will participate in the Class 1, District 3 meet. The top 30 runners in each district advance to the state meet at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia.

The Class 2 state meet is scheduled for Nov. 6 and the Class 1 state meet is scheduled for the following day.

The  Class 2 district meet at Owensville will start at 11 a.m.  with the girls race, followed by the boys race at 11:45  p.m.

The W-M boys are the only Montgomery County area runners who  are competing in the  Class 1 Van-Far district meet. They are scheduled to run at 10:45 p.m.

No runners from MCHS or W-M qualified for the state meet last year.

The Wildcats had six runners compete at the Class 3, District 3 meet at Linn, but had no state qualifiers. Only one of those runners is on this year’s team and that is sophomore Anna Johnson.

Junior Emma Rodgers and freshmen Jaidyn Milligan and Avery Finke and seniors Aubrey Janes and Kaylee Daume are among the other runners on the MCHS girls team. Freshmen Caleb Waters, Dylan Finke and Ashton Hampton and juniors Mason Pace and Braydin Finch are the competitors for the boys squad.

The Tigers had a pair of runners – sophomores Silas Jones and Lucas Spiers – competing at the Class 1, District 3 meet at Van-Far in 2025. Both runners returned to the W-M squad this year.

Sophomore Zeke Bradley and freshman Luke Nelson are the Tigers’ other runners.