The Junction City Blue Jays turned in a seventh place finish in the Class 6A Regional Meet on Saturday at Milford State Park. They scored 201 team points, with Lawrence Free State capturing first place with the low team score of 50.

In the individual competition for Junction City, Carlos Lozano finished 32nd in 18:58.80 and Isaiah Smith was 37th in 19:08.30.

For the Lady Jays they turned in a team score of 206 points while while Manhattan finished first with a score of 37 points.

For Junction City, Mariah Parrott finished 36th in 23:26.00  while Cassidy Eschliman was 41st in 23:55.50.

There were no state meet qualifers from Junction City.

JCHS coach Ryan Norton felt his team did well in the meet. “Probably a little bit below where we wanted to be today, but overall we’ve been kind of limping through the last couple of weeks here trying to get through this week here with our athletes. We had a nice showing for where we have been this year and where we started off.”