By TJ Martinell<\/strong> The Auburn boys and Kent Meridian girls cross country teams won their first meets of the season on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Auburn boys narrowly outran Mount Rainier 27-28 and beat K-M 21-36. Mount Rainier defeated the Royals 21-35 in the South Puget Sound League dual meet at Game Farm Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the girls race, Auburn topped Mount Rainier 24-31, but lost to the Royals, 27-30. The Royals girls beat the Rams 20-38.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Auburn senior Tyler Flannery took first with a time of 16 minutes, 59 seconds, while fellow senior Brennan Wallin placed third at 17:30. Sophomore Tyler Perrin placed seventh with a time of 18:42.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Auburn senior Anna deCarteret took second with a time of 20:41. Junior Kimberly Anderson placed fourth with a time of 22:14. Senior Anna Starr placed sixth, finishing at 22:37.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For the K-M boys, senior Edson Zaldivar took fourth with a time of 17:36. Junior Stewart Kunzleman took ninth, finishing at 19:12.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Junior Ruby Virk took third with a time of 22:08 for the K-M girls. Fellow junior Briann Funk took fifth with a time of 22:33. Senior Stephanie O’Hara placed seventh, crossing the finish line at 22:49. Junior Sara Maden placed eighth with a time of 22:51. Senior Jessie O’Hara placed ninth at 22:52.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n ELSEWHERE: <\/strong>The Tahoma boys and girls won their first dual meets of the season against Auburn-Riverside and Kentridge.\u00a0The Tahoma boys outran Auburn-Riverside and Kentridge 19-44. The Kentridge boys beat Auburn-Riverside 24-35.\u00a0The Tahoma girls team beat Auburn-Riverside 17-44 and the Chargers 15-50. KR lost to Auburn-Riverside 20-35.Kentridge sophomore Kyra Kaiser placed 10th with a time of 21:38 in the girls race.Kentridge senior Sterling Bath took third with a time of 17:06 in the boys race.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Auburn boys and Kent Meridian girls cross country teams won their first meets of the season on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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