Bulldog cross country runners compete at Northwest NXR Championships

SPOKANE — Twenty-nine members of the Butte High cross country team competed in the NXR Northwest Regional Cross-Country Champions Saturday as members of the Mining City Harriers team.

The meet featured top high school runners from Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Over 4,000 high school and middle school runners competed in 15 different races.

The Harriers were led by Camden Houchin, who finished 38^th in the Boys Championship Race in 15 minutes, 22.8 seconds on the 5-kilometer course.

He is believed to be the first Butte runner to compete in the selective Championship Race since Keli Dennehy placed 18^th and 8^th in 2008 and 2009. Houchin placed fourth at the State meet in Missoula last month.

Mining City Harrier individual result:

Boys Open Invitational #4 (Varsity)

Levi Wiltsie – 22^nd, 16:35.7

Lincoln Zell – 25^th, 16:35.9

Charles Killebrew – 116, 17:32.0

Bridger Luebke – 121, 17:35.2

Ryan Hanson – 155, 17:52.3

Colton Yoakum – 204, 18:19.7

Girls Open Invitational #3 (Varsity)

Sophia Houchin – 10^th, 19:29.2

Elsa Thieszen – 33^rd,  20:06.1

Pipi Luebke – 79^th, 21:00.7

Wakely Burleson – 133^rd, 21:56.6

Kellie Jo Carpenter – 167, 22:41.0

Boys Rising Stars #2 (JV)

Jason Real – 81^st, 19:11.1

Brian Moen – 93^rd, 19:25.2

Johan Thieszen – 99^th, 19:29.7

Kia Schuler – 127^th, 19:49.8

Sawyer Howell – 217^th, 21:56.5

Boys Rising Stars #1 (JV)

Jack Taylor – 223^rd, 21:11.8

Lyric Haston – 224th, 21:12.7

Alex Cranney – 244^th, 22:05.4

Zach McLarnon – 272^nd, 24:32.7

Case Richardson – 274^th, 24:33.4

Emmett Hedval – 275^th, 24:59.3

Kyle Van Elsberg – 283, 27:15.1

Girls Rising Stars #1 (JV)

Cambree O’Neill – 212^th, 25:38.0

Lainee Walsh Hill – 265^th,  29:33.9

Evelyn Hardman – 269^th, 31.25.6

Lynn Wiltsie – 270^th, 31:44.2

Hayden Hiltunen – DNF, Injury