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 |
