The West Liberty-Salem high school and junior high cross country teams dominated the Ohio Heritage Conference meet at Cedarville University Thursday evening.

The varsity girls team won their fourth straight league title.

Team Scores:  1st West Liberty-Salem 41, 2nd Northeastern 46, 3rd Greeneview 67, 4th Southeastern 87, 5th Cedarville 115, 6th Mechanicsburg

The Big Orange was led by the senior duo of Hillary Seely and Kelsie Markin.

Seely placed first winning her second OHC individual title and Markin placed fourth.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Markin has earned first team All-OHC honors.

WLS Individuals:

1st Hillary Seely 20:17

4th Kelsie Markin 21:00

12th Courtney Karg 21:51

14th Heather Bumbalough 22:13

19th Alexis Smith 22:33

23rd Sarah Murphy 23:34

24th Chris Edwards 23:44

30th Virginia Csillag 24:33

34th Amanda Williams 24:56

38th Brenna Hayes 25:30

50th Evan Bailey 29:38

Head coach Ann Vogel said, "This OHC victory was a total team effort. Our seniors have been solid for us all season and they pulled through for us today when we needed it most. The win is a testimony to seniors Kelsie and Heather who have been the heart of our program for four years.  Hillary was not a favorite to win but she ran a smart race. I'm proud of her efforts. My hat goes off to Northeastern. They are a well-coached team and they came to compete tonight." 

The Big Orange finishes the regular season 93-22 and will compete in the Southwest DIII District meet next Saturday in Clayton.

The West Liberty-Salem Jr. High girls team capped off a fantastic season by winning the team race. They finished the season 97-1.

Team Scores:  1st WLS 17, 2nd South Vienna  48, 3rd Triad 77

The Big Orange placed 6 girls in the top 10 and 9 girls in the top 20.

WLS Individuals:

1st Meghan Vogel 12:13

2nd Jasmine Smith 12:48

3rd Shawnda Henault 12:55

5th Sarah Williams 13:21

6th Jordan Smith 13:25

9th Savanna Shipp 14:16

11th Erica Cooper 14:20

12th Addy Hartsel 14:31

14th Erin Barrett 14:53

21st Morgan Woodruff 16:09

24th Grace Edwards 17:04

25th Lindsay Hostetler 17:05

27th Vianka Rivera 17:17

30th Catherine Williams 17:59

The West Liberty-Salem varsity boys team finished 3rd in the OHC.

Matt Vogel earned 1st Team All-OHC Honors with his top 7 finish.

The Tigers went 39-95 this season.

WLS Individuals:

Matt Vogel           18:01      7th

Brandon Shiveley   18:52     15th

Michael Yoder       19:36     19th

Zane Esch            20:03    23rd

Zak Teets            20:13    24th

Kelby Wallace       20:16    25th

Zake Esch           20:35     29th

Jerrod Yoder        22:21     41st

Ben Grooms         26:31     52nd

Head Coach Mike Louden said, "I'm very pleased in how the team competed and placed today! We knew that the top two teams in our league, Northeastern & Mechanicsburg, were solid teams and our goal was to finish as close to those two teams as possible. I'm extremely proud of the progress that Matt has made and I only see positive things from him heading into districts and the future. I was also pleased to see Zane Esch finish as our number 4 runner. He has really been coming on strong here at the end of the season and I hope this gives him some confidence heading into districts."

The district meet is Saturday, October 18th at 3:40 p.m.

The Jr. High Big Orange boys won the league title, edging out Northeastern by 1 point.

J.J. Birt and Aaron Scott finished 1-2 to lead the Tigers.

WLS went 105-13 this fall.

Individual results:

J.J. Birt           11:39    1st

Aaron Scott     11:47    2nd

D.J. Patterson  12:42    6th

Austin Kensler  13:04    8th

Chris Buschur   13:12   12th

Conner Karg     14:04   16th

Coach Louden said, "The Middle School boys finished up the season by winning the OHC Championship by 1 point over Northeastern - 28 to 29! The whole team combined for not only a great race but a phenomenal season! I'm very pleased with their progress and success over the season. Individually J.J. and Aaron ran outstanding races finishing 1, 2!!!"

The following are the 2008 All-OHC cross country teams. 1st-7th place in the OHC meet receive first team honors and 8th-14th place receive honorable mention:

First Team All-OHC Boys Cross Country Team

1st Michael Lanning, Sophomore - Northeastern

2nd Garrett Phillips, Senior - Northeastern

3rd Michael Schaffner, Sophomore - Mechanicsburg

4th Greg Liming, Senior - Greeneview

5th Alex Erwin, Junior - Northeastern

6th Kevin Stewart, Freshman - Mechanicsburg

7th Matt Vogel, Sophomore - WLS

Honorable Mention

 8th Eli Pyles, Junior - Cedarville

9th Andrew Hull, Senior - Greeneview

10th Nick Precek, Senior - Northeastern

11th Sam Link, Junior - Mechanicsburg

12th Raleigh Stonehouse, Freshman - Northeastern

13th David Gayer, Junior - Cedarville

14th Jake Henderson, Junior - Mechanicsburg

First Team All-OHC Girls Cross Country Team:

1st Hillary Seely, Senior - WLS

2nd Hayley McCohn, Freshman - Northeastern

3rd Katie Bunker, Junior - Cedarville

4th Kelsie Markin, Senior - WLS

5th Jamie Buckner, Sophomore - Greeneview

6th Bobbi Custer, Senior - Triad

7th Kyleigh Foley, Sophomore - Northeastern

Honorable Mention

8th Elizabeth Kavanagh, Freshman - Springfield Catholic Central

9th Betsy Egbert, Freshman - Southeastern

10th Molly King, Sophomore - Northeastern

11th Marie Egbert, Sophomore - Southeastern

12th Courtney Karg, Sophomore - WLS

13th Jessica Cooper, Senior - Springfield Catholic Central