Henneberger and Mills post record runs at the Tiger Classic

Each cross-country season, Dothan, Alabama's Dothan High hosts the Tiger Classic. Just as consistently, each year since 2014, Enterprise High comes to the meet and sweeps the team titles. On Thursday evening, 9 September 2017, that tradition continued. Dothan High hosted the meet at Eastgate Park. The Enterprise High girls scored 23 points to place first as a team in their race, while the Enterprise High boys tallied a perfect 15 points to win the boys' 5K. Northview High senior Makennah Mills broke the Enterprise monopoly on victory by winning the individual title in the high school girls' 5K with a 20:35. Enterprise continued to own the high school boys' 5K, with junior Gabriel Henneberger taking that race in 16:35.

Eastgate Park

High school competition at the 2017 Tiger Classic opened with the girls' 5K. Laura Patterson was on the starting line. An Enterprise junior, Patterson had won the race in 2016. The 2015 champ, Enterprise junior Jill Fassl, was also in the race. Makennah Mills hadn't been at the Tiger Classic either of those years, or anywhere else in Alabama. Mills had been in Arizona, racing for Prescott High. Now, though, she was in Dothan, Alabama wearing Northview High colors. And by the end of the high school girls' 5K, everyone in Eastgate Park knew that Makennah Mills was in Alabama.


Mills won the race by more than 200 meters, running 20:35--the best girls' time ever posted at the Tiger Classic. It was her first win wearing a Northview uniform. Enterprise High frosh runners Kayleigh Riordan and Natalie Warner took the next two places, running 21:29 and 21:43.


Enterprise put three more runners in the top ten, with Laura Patterson fourth in 21:48, Jill Fassl sixth in 22:01, and frosh Mirna Thompson tenth in 23:05. Once Thompson had finished, Enterprise had a mathematically unbeatable 23 points and their team's fourth-straight Tiger Classic girl's title. Northview was second in the nine-team field with 74 points. Led by frosh Kate Smith (13th, 23:43), host school Dothan edged Houston Academy for third place, 116 to 118.


2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Team Standings, High School Girls

1. Enterprise, 23
2. Northview, 74
3. Dothan, 116
4. Houston, 118
5. Providence Christian, 123
6. Zion Chapel, 129
7. Kinston, 153
8. Headland, 181
9. Eufaula, 253

Top Ten, 2017 Dothan Tiger Classic High School Girls' 5K

1. 20:34.11, Makennah Mills (Northview)
2. 21:28.42, Kayleigh Riordan (Enterprise)
3. 21:42.37, Natalie Warner (Enterprise)
4. 21:47.03, Laura Patterson (Enterprise)
5. 21:51.47, Grace Crim (Providence Christian)
6. 22:00.26, Jill Fassl (Enterprise)
7. 22:05.10, Rayvion Williams (Charles Henderson)
8. 22:43.32, Abigail Thomas (Straughn)
9. 22:51.09, Jadalie Medeiros (Northview)
10. 23:04.92, Mirna Thompson (Enterprise)

Enterprise junior Gabriel Henneberger has been coming to the Tiger Classic since 2014, the year his school first entered the meet. In four years Henneberger never finished outside the top ten, placing seventh in 2014 and 2015, and winning the high school boys' 5K in 2016. He successfully defended his title in 2017, running a winning 16:35--the fastest 5K ever run at the Tiger Classic.


Henneberger needed the speed to stay ahead of Less than 80 meters behind Henneberger, Enterprise junior Crawford was runner-up in 16:50. Another Enterprise junior, Jack Brockman, took third in 17:29.


Enterprise also took the next two places, with Josh Crawford fourth in 17:48 and Matt Watson fifth in 17:52. With Wildcat runners owning the first five places, the Enterprise boys had a perfect score of fifteen and their fourth Tiger Classic title in four years. Houston Academy, led by the frosh Gunnar Smith (10th, 18:23), scored 81 points, placing second among the ten teams in the meet. Providence Christian was third with 108 points led by their sophomore ace Robert Woodall (8th, 18:08).


2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Team Standings, High School Boys

1. Enterprise, 15
2. Houston, 81
3. Providence Christian, 108
4. Northview, 124
5. Straughn, 141
6. Wicksburg, 148
7. Dothan, 176
8. Zion Chapel, 184
9. Opp, 239
10. Kinston, 282

Top Ten, 2017 Dothan Tiger Classic High School Boys' 5K

1. 16:34.38, Gabriel Henneberger (Enterprise)
2. 16:49.09, Evan Crawford (Enterprise)
3. 17:28.10, Jack Brockman (Enterprise)
4. 17:47.03, Josh Crawford (Enterprise)
5. 17:51.65, Matt Watson (Enterprise)
6. 17:57.93, Alan Flores (Northview)
7. 18:05.56, Fletcher Curtis (Enterprise)
8. 18:07.79, Robert Woodall (Providence Christian)
9. 18:13.29, Cristian Caban-Woodham (Enterprise)
10. 18:22.28, Gunnar Smith (Houston)

The warm-up act for the meet was the middle school two-mile run. Coleson Hughes of Wicksburg won the shorter race in 12:48. Sokejawil Hill of Enterprise took second in 12:54, and Nathan Nichols of Providence Christian was third in 12:55. Hughes and Wicksburg pulled out a narrow victory in the team competition, beating second-place Enterprise 32 to 33. Northview was third with 59 points.


Enterprise took the first two places in the middle school girls' competition, with Ariana Ramos first in 15:01 and Britney Pacheco second in 15:10. Spirit Hall of Straughn was a close third in 15:12. Enterprise had the only full squad of five girls, so they took the team title with 15 points.


2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Team Standings, Middle School Girls

1. Enterprise, 15

Top Ten Girls, 2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Middle School Two Mile

1. 15:00.41, Ariana Ramos (Enterprise)
2. 15:09.99, Britney Pacheco (Enterprise)
3. 15:11.01, Spirit Hall (Straughn)
4. 15:22.45, Lydia Smith (Providence Christian)
5. 15:40.44, Melissa VanMeter (Enterprise)
6. 16:03.01, Kimberly Juarez (Enterprise)
7. 16:41.16, Elle Salter (Providence Christian)
8. 16:42.60, Julianna Gingrich (Enterprise)
9. 16:42.67, Sarah Kate Rhodes (Opp)
10. 16:58.78, Madelynn Carr (Enterprise)

2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Team Standings, Middle School Boys

1. Wicksburg, 32
2. Enterprise, 33
3. Northview, 59

Top Ten Boys, 2017 Dothan Tiger Classic Middle School Two Mile

1. 12:47.45, Coleson Hughes (Wicksburg)
2. 12:53.68, Sokejawil Hill (Enterprise)
3. 12:54.02, Nathan Nicholls (Providence Christian)
4. 13:09.56, Jacob Tillery (Enterprise)
5. 13:20.12, JC Peacock (Houston)
6. 13:30.41, Caleb Hubbard (Houston)
7. 13:40.62, Tyler Williams (Wicksburg)
8. 13:41.94, Emerson Bennett (Wicksburg)
9. 13:42.88, Liam Philpott (Straughn)
10. 13:50.33, Sean Crowell (Enterprise)

Xpress Timing of Birmingham, Alabama timed and scored Dothan High's 2017 Tiger Classic.

Dothan Tiger Cross-Country Classic winners, 2013 - 2017
High School Boys
Date	Team Champs	Individual Champs
12 September 2013	Providence Christian, 33 points	18:56, Barry Gerber (Northview High)
9 October 2014	Enterprise, 19	17:55, Zane Wilson (Enterprise) 11
12 September 2015	Enterprise, 30	17:28, Charles Asouzu (Northview) 12
8 September 2016	Enterprise, 21	16:59, Gabriel Henneberger (Enterprise) 10
7 September 2017	Enterprise, 15	16:35, Gabriel Henneberger (Enterprise) 11
High School Girls
Date	Team Champs	Individual Champs
12 September 2013	Providence Christian, 16 points	22:18, Megan Rasmussen (Providence Christian)
9 October 2014	Enterprise, 16	22:19, Zoe Penko (Enterprise High) 12
12 September 2015	Enterprise, 19	23:02, Jill Fassl (Enterprise High) 9
8 September 2016	Enterprise, 15	21:04, Laura Patterson (Enterprise) 10
7 September 2017	Enterprise, 23	20:35, Makennah Mills (Northview) 12

Links

• Complete results of Dothan High's 2017 Tiger Classic Cross-Country Meet
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQa-F7krT4GwpGs6vyvARGfGY9hKYNuiO9eLWkmPNWNO5xnBziUwxyAzwV4_C-kbbvU35FNbT1O81dd/pubhtml
  
  
• Find your next race on track or trail using the Trouble Afoot! calendar
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