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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Burcham finishes 84th in national cross country race
Cabell Midland's Jacob Burcham sprints up a hill during the class AAA boys race for the High School Cross Country State Championship meet on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, at Cabell Midland High School in Ona, W.Va. Burcham finished 84th at the Nike Cross Country Nationals Boys Championship in Portland, Ore.
Purchase this photoPORTLAND, Ore. -- Jacob Burcham from Ona placed 84th Saturday in the Nike Cross Country Nationals Boys Championships.
Burcham had a 5,000-meter time of 18 minutes, 27 seconds running through the mud and slop at the Portland Meadows horse racing track. The running course with man-made obstacles such as hay bales was on the inside of the horse race track.
Runners were covered with mud after slogging around the multi-loop course.
Sam Wharton of Tipp City, Ohio, won with a time of 17:08 followed by Estevan DeLaRosa of Arcadia, Calif. (17:09) and Luis Martinez from Sue Cleveland, N.M. (17:17).
Pre-race favorite Nick Ryan from Manluis, N.Y., was 15th in 17:37.
Burcham, a Cabell Midland High School senior, qualified for the national race of 196 runners with a Southeast Region victory last week in Cary, N.C.
