The Southern Pines Middle School boys’ and girls’ teams repeated as champions at the Moore County Middle School Cross Country Championships held at the Elks Club on Thursday.

Isabel Flores, a seventh-grader at Pope John Paul II, won the girls’ race for the second year in a row. Southern Middle seventh-grader, Xzavier Barrett, was the boys’ winner by less than a second over sixth-grader Ben Verchick of Pope John Paul II. Sixty-three boys and 60 girls competed in the two-mile races.

The team scores based on the first five runners to finish for each school were: boys — Southern Middle 34, New Century 66, West Pine 86 and Sandhills Classical Christian 133; girls — Southern Middle 39, West Pine 46, Pope John Paul II 67 and New Century 74.

The top-14 finishers in each race received medals: boys — 1. Xzavier Barrett (SM) 12:27, 2. Ben Verchick (JPII) 12:27.36, 3. Cole Whittaker (Crains Creek) 13:03, 4. Anthony Munoz (NC) 13:10, 5. Ryan Baer (SCC) 13:21, 6. Oscar Ybarra (SM) 13:26, 7. Matthew Hines (NC) 13:33, 8. Isaiah McGilvary (SM) 13:35, 9. Nixon Mower (SM) 13:36, 10. Malachi Menchion (SM) 13:37, 11. Ryan Green (SM) 13:37.87, 12. Sam Shutt (WP) 13:38, 13. Kevin Vazquez (SM) 13:38.83, 14. John Boboige (SM) 13:40, 15. Colten Jensen (NC) 13:53; girls — 1. Isabel Flores (JPII) 13:48, 2. Riley Barrett (JPII) 14:16, 3. Christiana McLean (NC) 14:32, 4. Sarah Darrell (SM) 14:38, 5. Allyson Burney (SM) 14:46, 6. Caroline McKernon (WP) (14.48); 7. Anya Joyce (WP) 15:21, 8. Malia Numchik (SM) 15:24, 9. Veronica Sosa (WP) 15:25, 10. Gabrielle Flanders (SM) 15:27, 11. Madison Gradolfe (WP) 15:28, 12. Madison Wheeler (SM) 15:44, 13. Emma Jane Leonard (WP) 15:45, 14. Madison Petersen (NC) 15:47.