TITUSVILLE — Warren sophomore Sam Lindell and senior Shyann Rulander finished in the top five in their respective cross country races at Saturday’s Rocket Invite.

Lindell, a sophomore, was fourth out of 182 finishers in the varsity boys race hosted by Titusville. His time of 16 minutes, 13 seconds was just five seconds off second place.

Rulander finished the varsity girls course in fifth place at 20:24, just six seconds off of the third-place time. Following close behind her was freshman teammate Morgan Alexander, whose time of 21:16 — lumped in with several runners — was good for 16th overall in the race.

The Lady Dragons finished eighth out of 13 teams scoring.

“We opened up our first meet of the year at the Titusville Invite, which is the districts course that we will see again in October,” said Warren cross country coach Kevin Dustin. “We had a lot of quality performances and it’s great to get the season going and back to racing.”

Also in the varsity girls race, Warren junior Kasey Kophazy was 86th in 25:38, freshman Loralei Johnson 103rd in 27:07 and freshman Brady Caudill finished in 34:46.

For the Dragon boys, senior Louis Flatt was 80th in 20:04, freshman Blake Albaugh finished in 25:50 and junior Kevin Roberts in 28:37.

“Leyton Salvatore and Emma Peterson both medaled in the junior high race as well,” said Dustin.