Royals XC team wins Giovanni's Boyd County Invitational

With five runners finishing in the top 10, the Mason County Royals cross country team cruised to a victory in the Giovanni's Pizza Boyd County Invitational Saturday.

The Royals beat runner-up East Carter by 82 points.

Mason County was led by Dashawn Overly with a second place finish in a time of 16:35.73. 

The other Royals in the top ten were Peyton Ullery in fifth place (17:02.34), Bryant Curtis in sixth place (17:12.53), Alex Brannon in eighth place (17:31.08) and Nicholas Schiltz in ninth place (17:41.39).

Elijah Reed finished in 18th place (18:38.79).

Kolby Galloway was the Lady Royals' top runner, finishing in eighth place (21:26.82).

Decker and Royals are XC region champions, Overly and Royals are runners-up

Mason County senior Paige Decker was the individual champion and she led the Lady Royals to the team title today at the Class AA Region 6 cross country meet at Boyd County. It's the Lady Royals 10th regional team championship in the last 15 years.

In the boys' meet, Mason County sophomore Deshawn Overly was the individual runner-up and he led the Royals to a runner-up finish, their best finish since 2012.

The Lady Royals had 35 points. Boyd County was a distance second with 65 points and Russell was third with 66.

Decker crossed the finish line with a time of 19:02.06.

Layla Henderson was third (20:08.18), Elizabeth Lavinder was seventh (20:46.96), Morgan Carpenter was 12th (21:50.83), Ava Thompson was 13th (21:57.93), Alexis Decker was 22nd (22:47.56) and Hadley Maher was 31st (23:28.78)

Boyd County won the boys' meet with 34 points followed by Mason County with 66 and East Carter with 81.

Overly had a time of 17:24.23.

Peyton Ullery as seventh (17:36.15), Alex Brannon was 16th (18:37.61), Elijah Reed was 19th (19:19.45), Jackson Truesdell was 22nd (19:38.88), Keenan Galloway was 31st (20:32.88) and Casey Magee was 34th (20:46.06).

The Lady Royals and Royals both advance to the state meets next Friday at Bourbon County.

Lady Royals Paige Decker wins Region 6 AA individual XC title leading her team to the title over Boyd Co pic.twitter.com/fTbkbqaBSE

— Mason County XCTF (@MasonCountyXCTF) October 21, 2022