Top-10 finish for Interlake senior at state cross country meet | Prep sports news

Interlake senior Nikita Waghani finished her career as a prep for the Saints at the 3A state meet in Pasco.

Interlake senior Nikita Waghani capped her prep career with a 10th place finish in the 3A girls race, the highest individual finish of a local competitor.

Waghani ran 19 minutes, 00.57 seconds and was just more than a second off a ninth place finish as the only competitor for the Saints at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco. Her career as a member of the Saints ended with her second best finish in a state competition, after only an eighth place run in Class 2A in 2011, and four consecutive trips to the biggest meet of the year.

Bellevue took a complete team and was paced by the 25th place finish of sophomore Camille Moore, who ran a personal best time of 19:24.92.

Casey Jacobson finished 52nd in 20:00.29 and Claire Wendle (94), Elizabeth Andrews (86), Katherine Penner (85), Sophie French (70) and Grace Sheeran (67) all finished inside the top-100 for Bellevue as well.

Lakeside junior Andrea Masterson finished in 17:50.83 to beat out teammate Sophie Cantine for the individual title and Glacier Peak, helped by four top-25 finishes, won the team scoring just in front of the Lions.

Beauchamp, Doran run for Interlake boys

Interlake had a pair of competitors in the 3A boys race and each finished inside the top-40.

Sophomore Luke Beauchamp ran 16:07.18 for the Saints to finish 28th and junior Alex Doran ran 16:18.65, finishing 39th.

Anderson Tanner, a junior from North Central, out-kicked defending 3A individual champion and Sea-King winner Joe Hardy of Seattle Prep to take the boys race.

De Sa E Silva 12th for Totems

Sammamish junior Pascale De Sa E Silva ran 19:26.96 in the girls 2A race, good enough for a 12th place finish for the Totems.

Emily Donnel, a sophomore, was 45th for Bellevue Christian in 20:55.52

Freshman Craig Lambert finished 62nd for BCS in the 1A boys race, running 17:36.2 as the lone representative of the Vikings.