All schools in Upshur County will close at 1 p.m. today. All B-UHS sporting events today are canceled.

Lady Buccaneers run to third-place finish at Braxton

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SUTTON, W.Va. – Tiffany Williams cracked the top 10 to pace her cross country Lady Buccaneers to a third-place finish at the Braxton Invitational at Holly Grove Park on Saturday.

Williams finished in 26:02 to finish 9th overall. Lexi Morici of Elkins easily won the meet with a time of 23:22, more than have a minute ahead of second-place Morgan Tuner of Notre Dame.

Behind Williams, the Buckhannon-Upshur top five consisted of Maggie Queen in 13th (26:19), Jenny Williams in 20th (28:15), Kassidy Wilfong in 33rd (32:51) and Molly Fox in 34th (32:52).

Elkins won the meet, with Nicholas County second, Buckhannon-Upshur third and Notre Dame fourth.

The complete results:

Place Athlete School Time
1 Lexi Morici Elkins 23:22
2 Morgan Turner Notre Dame 23:59
3 Michaela O’Dell Nicholas 24:14
4 Addie Berdine Elkins 24:18
5 Bree Moll Webster 24:58
6 Natalie Sutton Elkins 25:31
7 Olivia Carpenter Nicholas 25:44
8 Faith Lipscomb Nicholas 25:57
9 Tiffany Williams Buckhannon-Upshur 26:02
10 Kaia Miller Elkins 26:11
11 Alivia Moffatt Webster 26:13.43
12 Kathleen Walkup Nicholas 26:13.85
13 Maggie Queen Buckhannon-Upshur 26:19
14 Kaeli Ricottilli Elkins 26:21
15 Savannah Cunningham Calhoun 26:56
16 Kaleigh Edwards Elkins 27:13
17 Emily Barr Nicholas 27:18
18 Holly Harper Elkins 27:26
19 Riley Skeens Braxton 28:09
20 Jenny Williams Buckhannon-Upshur 28:15
21 Hannah Phillips Elkins 28:25
22 Soren Tyree Nicholas 28:43
23 Laci Pritchard Scott 29:16
24 Ashley Nicholas Nicholas 29:33.26
25 Paige Rinschler Notre Dame 29:33.79
26 Fiona Smith Notre Dame 29:47
27 Sara Ellis Scott 30:48
28 Quinn Raffo Richwood 30:52
29 Tori Williams Gilmer 31:22
30 Jordan Moffatt Webster 31:34
31 Abby Rinschler Notre Dame 31:53
32 Rachel Phares Gilmer 32:04
33 Kassidy Wilfong Buckhannon-Upshur 32:51
34 Molly Fox Buckhannon-Upshur 32:52
35 Megan Vandevender Webster 33:05
36 Tracey Frame Richwood 34:41
37 Brittany George Calhoun 35:19
38 Fatima Perez Nicholas 36:30
39 Kelcey Cadle Nicholas 37:21
40 Alyssa Dunlap Scott 37:30
41 Emma Fox Gilmer 40:38
42 Lucy Ruble-Osborne Notre Dame 44:21

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