FORT DODGE — If there was one place Corning senior Tiffany Shepherd didn’t want to finish here Saturday at the Iowa High School Cross Country Championships, it was 11th place.

After finishing seventh as a freshman and eighth as a sophomore at the state meet, Shepherd finished 11th as a junior, just missing all-state honors and medaling by one spot.

Unfortunately, Shepherd came up just short in her attempt to earn all-state honors for the third time in four trips to the state meet, as North Tama sophomore Abi Watson pulled away from her in the final straightaway to take 10th place, leaving Shepherd to finish 11th for the second straight year.