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Hunt's Lauren West and Fike's Martha-Scott Benson lead the pack during the beginning of the girls race at Monday's Wilson County Cross-Country Championships at Gillette Athletic Complex. Freshman West claimed the individual title, the first non-Fike winner in the six years the race has been held. Benson was second. Brad Coville | Timesbruins, Lady Demons take team Wi son County Cross-Country Championships; Fike's Piner, Hunt's West win individual titlesBy Randy JonesStaff WriterStrategy kept alive two streaks for Fike at the sixth annual Wilson County Cross-Country Championships.In the boys race, Golden Demons’ senior Talen Piner allowed Beddingfield’s Detrice Higgs to race out to a large lead but hauled in the Bruins’ top runner with less than a mile to go to win at Gillette Athletic Complex Monday afternoon. In the girls run, the Lady Demons stayed bunched up as usual in claiming five of the top seven spots for the teamtitle.Each represented a sixth straight victory for Fike at the championships, which had 43 boys and 31 girls racing.“We put a plan together for Talen and a plan for the girls,” Fike coach Tom Griffith said. “Sometimes strategies don’t work, and sometimes they do. Today, they did.”Martha-Scott Benson, who finished second in the girls’ race, said the Lady Demons have used the same bunch up strategy all year.“I think the packing strategy is definitely very successful for us,” she said. “It really helps us be strongest as a teamoutthere.*Beddingfield’s boys squad took home its second title in three years and Hunt freshman Lauren West claimed the girls title to end Fike’s streak of county titles at five in a row.“Lauren West has finished second inevery Big East (Conference) meet and in every other big meet this year,” Hunt coach Rusty Boyette said. “So this was no surprise. We were confident she could finish first out here.”West was all smiles right after claiming the title as Wilson’s top femalecross-country athlete.“It’s very exciting,” said West, who beat Benson by 47 seconds with a timeof 20:31. “I just wanted to get out in front and keep my pace throughout. At about the one and a half mile point, I knew I was doing that. I had a big lead and I just needed to keep doing what 1 had been.”Piner and Higgs expected to be run-See COUNTY, Page 3B
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