Maize South’s cross country teams benefited from a change of scenery Saturday, and the Mavericks hope for similar success in a week.

Both the Mavericks’ boys and girls team finished sixth a year ago in Class 5A, and they appear to have settled in very nicely in 4A, placing all of their five runners in the top 30 and breezing to 4A regional titles.

Maize South’s girls had no scorer finishing higher than ninth in capturing the title by 32 points over Andover Central. The Mavericks’ boys had four of five scorers in the top 15 and outdistanced runner-up Circle by 16 points.

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