By By SCOTT NOVAK / Dowagiac Daily News
Cedar Springs and Vicksburg won the boy's and girl's portions of the Edwardsburg Invitational on Saturday at Southwestern Michigan College.
Cedar Springs scored 19 points to edge runner-up Vicksburg, which finished with 27 points.
Sturgis was third with 29 points, while Mendon was a distant fourth with 49 points. Coldwater rounded out the top five with 60 points.
Plainwell finished seventh (77), Bangor eighth (80) and Niles 10th (111).
Rounding out the order of finish were Kalamazoo Hackett, Delton-Kellogg, Dowagiac, Brandywine and Paw Paw. (see complete team results in Scoreboard)
Vicksburg was the girl's champion with 15 points. Cedar Springs was second with 27 points and Sturgis a distant third with 51 points. Rounding out the top five were Delton-Kellogg and Berrien Springs with 66 and 79 points respectively.
Edwardsburg was sixth with 84 points, Plainwell seventh with 109 points, Niles eighth with 112 points, Bangor ninth with 130 points and Paw Paw 10th with 151 points.
Dowagiac finished 11th with 199 points.
In the composite team scores (combined boys and girls results) Vicksburg finished with 42 points to edge Cedar Springs which had 46 points.
Sturgis was third, Plainwell fourth, Delton-Kellogg fifth, Bangor sixth, Niles seventh, Dowagiac eighth and Paw Paw ninth.
Also competing on Saturday without full teams were Berrien Springs, Brandywine, Cassopolis, Coldwater, Edwardsburg, Howardsville Christian, Kalamazoo Hackett and Mendon.
Landon Peacock of Cedar Springs was the top finisher in the boy's junior-senior race as he posted a time of 15:35.
Dowagiac's Brad Lee was 29th with a time of 18:55. Jason Tabbert was 32nd with a time of 19:09. Mike Kasper finished 36th, Adam Hess 37th, Andrew Cuthbert 40th, Evan Bressler 49th, Oscar Azevedo 62nd and Tony Saviano 80th.
Dowagiac's Kayla Saviano finished 37th with a time of 26:22 in the freshmen-sophomore race. Catherine Hamilton was 60th.
Dowagiac's Chrissy Huff finished 50th with a time of 27:32 in the junior-senior race.