Local Sports Roundup: Powell, Rice take top honors in Big East cross country meet

Northern Nash’s Christian Powell and Southern Nash’s Brooklyn Rice were the highest-placing finishers in the Big East 5A/6A Conference cross country meet Wednesday at C.B. Aycock High School. Powell took top honors in the boys’ race with a time of 16:45 as the Knights finished first overall with 22 points. Southern Nash was second, Hunt third and Rocky Mount fourth. In the girls’ race, Rice won in 19:52 for the Firebirds, but Northern Nash won the meet with 32 points to 37 for Southern Nash as five Lady Knights finished in the top 10. Alaina Davis was the top runner…