Considering Adam Davis was kind of dizzy after a couple of miles, a ninth-place finish at Thursday’s Eudora Invitational cross country meet certainly was respectable.

“They changed the course, so the times were slower,” said Davis, a Seabury Academy sophomore. “It was sort of like you were running in circles.”

Eudora’s re-worked course indeed was quirky, taking runners around Eudora’s baseball and softball fields, then past the Cardinals’ football and soccer practices, back around near the middle school, then once again circling the baseball and softball fields before finishing pretty close to where the whole nausea-inducing race started.

It was both scenic and interesting, to say the least.

“It’s flat, but it’s not as easy as it looks,” Seabury coach Jill Boyle said. “It’s hard to gauge where you are.”

Regardless, Davis used his same strategy as always: Start off back in the pack, and make everyone eat his dust near the end. Davis was around 23rd place at the first mile, but used a strong and gradual kick to eventually crack the top 10.

He passed four runners in the last 300 yards alone.

“I try to kick at least a quarter mile before the finish,” said Davis, who finished ninth in the race last year, too.

As a team, the Seabury boys finished 10th out of 11 teams, beating out Osage City. Gardner-Edgerton was the boys champion, followed by De Soto, Eudora, Wellsville and McLouth.

Sophomore Katie Pottorff led the Seahawk girls, finishing 15th with a two-mile time of 13:31.8. De Soto’s Carrie Wilbert passed Eudora’s Brittney Graff just before the finish line to win the race.

“Katie didn’t show up until a couple of hours into school today,” Boyle said. “She wasn’t feeling well. It was her second race this year where she came out too fast. It was a learning experience for her.”

Eudora won the girls race, followed by De Soto, McLouth, Gardner-Edgerton, Wellsville, Louisburg, Osage City, Santa Fe Trail and Seabury.