21st of 32 at All-Ohio championship

Junior Preston Pethtel (Heath) led Ohio Wesleyan at the All-Ohio championship meet, hosted by Cedarville University on Friday in Cedarville.

Cedarville won the meet with 67 points to 71 for Walsh.  Malone was third with 145 points, followed by Ohio Northern (175), Findlay (208), Otterbein (236), John Carroll (246), Case Reserve (289), and Wright State (312).  The Ohio State running club rounded out the top 10 teams with a score of 321, followed by Ashland (330), Kenyon (360), Rio Grande (361), Wittenberg (365), Wilmington (374), Wooster (379), Mount Vernon Nazarene (402), Baldwin Wallace (455), and Ohio Dominican (462).  Heidelberg completed the top 20 in the standings with 485 points, followed by Ohio Wesleyan (579), Bluffton (609), Capital (699), Lake Erie (784), Cincinnati running club (788), Tiffin (850), Dayton running club (851), Central State (888), Marietta (897), Lorain County (898), and Wilberforce (1017).  Hiram did not record a team score.

Ohio Wesleyan finished 12th among the 15 NCAA Division III teams in the race.

Noah Fisher of Findlay won the race, completing the 8000-meter course in 24:14.3, 13 seconds ahead of Wilmington's Simon Heys.

Pethtel finished 96th in 26:35.8.

Junior Wes Horton (Columbus/Thomas Worthington) placed 108th in 26:43.5, freshman Lucas Weaver (Galion/Northmor) was 170th in 27:19.7, senior Evan Miller (Wooster) finished 225th in 28:09.4, and junior Kory Kaiser (Cincinnati/West Clermont) rounded out the Ohio Wesleyan scoring with a 264th-place finish in 28:44.4.

Sophomore Xavier Platt (Fredericktown) placed 268th in 28:45.5 and freshman Perry Jackson was 284th in 28:55.3.

Final Results