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BOYS:
1, Fort Collins, CO
Holding out Noah Shannon and the rest of the seniors, Fort Collins took
seventh Friday in the Sweetheart Invitational at Loveland HS with a score
of 137. Will Everett (6th/17:23) and Bryant
Mason (8th/17:30) were the
top men. Along with many others in the region's top 10, Fort Collins
will be racing Saturday at the Centara XC Classic, hosted by Mountain
View. In light of the Centara extravaganza, many schools held out their
top runners.
The course has been described as having more than 40 turns, mostly grass,
but with a little sand and concrete mixed with a few short hills. Temperratures
were in the low 80s.
Team Scores: 1, Mountain View 75; 2, Smoke Hill 84; 3, Fairview 92; 4,
Thompson Valley 126; 5, Poudre 130; 6, Fort Collins 137; 7, Arapahoe
161; 8, Cheyenne Central 174; 9, Loveland 177; 10, Wheat Ridge 188; 11,
Dakota Ridge 246.
Individual: 1, Justin Briggs, Fairview, 16:57; 2, Collin Eckelman, Thompson
Valley, 17:00; 3, Tommy Walton, Mountain View, 17:05; 4, Charlie Cox,
Poudre, 17:16; 6, Will Everett, Fort Collins, 17:23; 7, Darren Hasley,
Fairview, 17:29; 8, Bryant Mason, Fort Collins, 17:30; 9, Travis Swaim,
Mountain View, 17:34; 10, Charley Mathes, Mountain View, 17:58.
2, Mountain View, UT
No information available
3, Page, AZ
In Saturday's highly anticipated meeting of two storied cross country
programs, Page was outrun in the last 200 meters and fell to SW#5
Albuquerque Academy, 50-53, at the Curtis Williams Invite in Gallup, NM. "We
really wanted to win this one," said Page coach Mark Lomeland, "since
we don't often get to race against teams of the caliber of Albuquerque
Academy." Lomeland could have made excuses -- but did not -- as
his number one runner all season, Donovan Tsinnijinnie, was slowed by
bronchitis and ended up as Page's third man in 10th place. "Albuquerque
Academy is a very good team, and my hat is off to them," Lomeland
said. "They ran very strong and the race wasn't decided until the
last 200 meters."
Nathan Lee led Page in 4th place, followed by Levi
Lomeland in 8th, Tsinnijinnie,
Javier Jim in 12th, Antonio
Smith 19th, and Tomai Bitsoie 24th.
Team Scores: 1, Albuquerque Academy 50; 2, Page 53; 3, Cibola 114; 4,
Gallup 137; 5, Rio Rancho 144; 6, Los Alamos 204; 7, Navajo Pine 217;
8, Zuni 225; 9, Cobre 310; 10, St. Michae;'s 319. Nineteen additional
teams finished.
Individuals (no official times available): 1, Ryan Nez, Navajo Pine;
2, Ben Johnson, Academy; 3, Dustin Martin, Academy; 4, Nathan Lee, Page;
5, Obed Hernandez, Cobre; 6, Ryan McNiff, Los Alamos; 7, Anthony Roybal,
Cibola; 8, Levi Lomeland, Page; 9, Philbert Brown, Gallup; 10, Donoan
Tsinnojinnie, Page; 11, Drew Rasmussen, Cibola; 12, Javier Jim, Page;
13, Kyle Cooper, Academy; 14, Chris Talayumpetewa, Gallup; 15, Erik Huaswald,
Academy; 16, Gabe Mondragon, Rio Rancho; 17, Beau Hilland, Academy;...19,
Antonio Smith, Page; 20, Cal Armerding, Academy; ...24, Tomai Bitsoie,
Page.
For full results go to Curtis Williams
Invitational
4, Rock Springs, WY
Both Rock Springs and SW#6 Judge Memorial were surprised by unranked
Davis Saturday at the Orem (UT) Kiwanis Invitational at UVSC Soccer Field.
Davis placed five runners in the top 15 with a pack gap of just 34.2
seconds to pull off the upset. Davis and Rock Springs tied in 5A scoring
with the former picking up the victory based on having a higher placing
sixth man.
Zach Reiter of Rock Springs was the individual winner, covering the 5,000-meter
course in 15:58.1. He defeated Viewmont junior Kyle
McKenna (16:14.9)
by about 80 meters. Rock Springs runners Greg Griffith (4th/16:21.3),
William Miller (9th/16:38.8), Dustin
Gibson (10th/16:39.3), and William
Parker (29th/17:08.1) finished the scoring. The 1-5 pack gap was 70 seconds.
Davis pulled off the upset with junior Jared Ward leading the way in
third place in 16:17.0, followed by Patrick Hall (6th/16:35.3), junior
Nate Inkley (12th/16:46.4), freshman Seth
Gutzwiller (13th/16:47.1),
and Seth Frischknecht (15th/16:51.2). Richie
Whicker was the sixth man
in 16:56.3. He was 14th among 5A runners, 38 places ahead of Rock Springs'
sixth man.
For full results go to Orem Kiwanis Invitational
5, Albuquerque Academy, NM
Ben Johnson and Dustin
Martin used a 2-3 finish to power Albuquerque
Academy to a 50-53 victory Saturday over SW#3 Page at the Curtis Williams
Invitational at Red Rock State Park in Gallup Academy also would have
been victorious in a dual meet, 27-28, using the Williams' placings.
Page was 10th ranked nationally and Academy was 18th prior to the meet.
"Now that we are in the latter half of our season, our team is clearly
making progress towards being at our best for the upcoming championship
meets," said Academy coach Adam Kedge. "Page is a solid team
with great packing. This time their front runners couldn't handle the
1-2 punch of Martin and Johnson. They took command of the race early
only to be caught by (Navajo Pine's Ryan) Nez in the last quarter mile."
No official times were available, but Kedge had the Academy runners timed
in 17:57 for Johnson, 18:03 for Martin, 18:53 for 133th place Kyle
Cooper,
18:59 for 15th place Erik Huaswald, and 19:01 for 17th place Beau
Hilland.
Sixth man Cal Armerding was 20th in 19:08. Academy and Page were so dominant
they took 11 of the first 20 places in the 32-team meet. In that sense,
it almost was a dual meet. The course was quite sandy and 3.24 miles.
For full results go
to Curtis Williams Invitational
6, Judge Memorial, UT
With a remarkable 1-5 pack gap of 23.3 seconds, Judge Memorial was an
easy winner of the1A-3A breakdown of the Orem Kiwanis meet Saturday at
UVSC Soccer Field, scoring 19 points to beat Evanston (WY) by 74 points.
Judge was beaten in the overall race by 5A schools Davis and Rock Springs
of Wyoming. Davis won with 49, Rock Springs had 53, and Judge Memorial
72. Fourth-place Orem scored 184.
Freshman Luke Puskedra, 7th overall, was the 1A-3A winner for Judge.
His time of 16:36.6 was 10.5 seconds ahead of Utah's other precocious
yearling Seth Gutzwiller of Davis. Nick
Gaiten followed Puskedra in 2nd
place in the 1A-3A competition in 16:38.6. The other scorers were Andrew
Hirning (3rd/16:44.6), Jason Heckle (7th/16:56), and Eliel
Hindert (8th/16:59.9).
Sixth man David Romero also pitched in (10th/17:24.6).
For full results, please see Orem Kiwanis Invitational
7, Denver South, CO
No information available
8, Denver North, CO
No information available
9, Dakota Ridge, CO
No information available
10, Rio Rancho, NM
Rio Rancho ran into the buzz saw that was Albuquerque Academy defeating
Page at the Curtis Williams Invitational at Red Rocks State Park in Gallup.
By the time the dust from that match-up had settled, Rio Rancho was in
5th place with a score of 144, behind third place Cibola (114) and fourth
place Gallup (137). Academy topped Page, 50-53. Leading the way for Rio
Rancho were Gabe Mondragon in 16th place and Daniel
Bueno in 22nd. Matt
Pecos was 28th, Jesse Rodriquez 38th, and Louis
Trujillo 40th. Josh Bueno sat out with a lower leg injury.
For full results go
to Curtis Williams Invitational
Other News
Seniors Race Ostler (16:56.8) and Daniel
Urquhart (16:57.5) and sophomores
Jason Palmer (17:11.6), Bryan
Willoughby (17:40.4), and Michael Garlick (17:58.2) ran 3-4-6-7-8 for Orem (UT) HS to win the 4A title at the Kiwanis
Classic in their home town with a score of 28. Lehi followed with 47
and Murray with 58.
Albuquerque, NM runner Kevin McNally set his second course record in
as many weeks to lead Eldorado HS to victory in the Santa Fe High School
Invitational, clocking 17:27 on the tough, hilly Santo Domingo Pueblo
course. A week earlier he set the record of 16:25 at the Belen Invitational.
Eldorado won Saturday's race over Sandia Prep.
Provo (UT) coach Phil Olsen reports his teams took last weekend off trying
to get ready for the upcoming Region and State 4A championships. They
are likely to be without national class runner Jared
Rohatinsky who has
had a lower leg injury.
The news just arrived that American Fork (UT) HS was the winner of the
Sept. 23 Nebo Invitational in Spanish Fork, UT. Winning with a score
of 27 -- Timpanogos was next with 67 -- AF was powered by Mike
Felix (2nd/16:44), Jarrett Pulsipher (3rd/16:45), Geoff
Harmon (5th/16:51),
Bathan Lye (7th/16:58), and Tyler
Jackson (10th/17:07). That's an impressive
23-second 1-5 pack gap on the 2.98-mile course.
GIRLS:
1, Fremont, UT
Coach Amber Tingey was all but glowing talking about
her SW#1
Fremont team. The school may be in Plain City, UT, but the
team is anything but plain. Following a comfortable 53-95-106 win over
SW#6 Orem and SW#5
Judge Memorial at the
Orem Kiwanis Invitational at UVSC Soccer Field, Tingey had high praise
for her top five.
She was pleased with Cassie Ricks who won the 5,000-meter race in 18:37.8,
some 45 meters ahead of. Samantha Gaffney of Judge Memorial. "Sam(antha)
is considered to be the top runner in the state," coach Tingey smiled. "And
Lexie Meyer had a great race." Tingey was pleased because Meyer
is in only her second race after a bout with mono. "She looked great,
considering her situation," gushed Tingey. "We are really excited
to have Lexie back in the pack." Meyer was fifth man (woman?) in
17th place in 19:57.9. The praise hardly ended there. "Lindsey
Slater ran a great race with an explosive last mile," Tingey said of the
senior who was 15th in 19:53.2.
NOTE* Ricks had some help in her win over Gaffney as the Judge girl fell
in the first 100 meters and hit her head on a rack and ran into a tree
but gamely held on for second place.
And then there are the Chuggs, sophomore Jessie (8th/19:24.8) and senior
Katie (12th/19:41.9). "The Chugg sister continue to be solid and
reliable," Tingey said. "It's sure a lot of fun coaching sisters.
"We're running great and having fun as a team. This is a very close
knit group and they are a blast to coach," Tingey said. "We
are excited as we head into the region and state meets." Those are
10/7 and 10/19. With an 80.7-second 1-5 pack gap, led by Ricks while
defeating the acknowledged best runner in Utah, Tingey should have lots
more smiles coming.
For full results, please see Orem Kiwanis Invitational
2, Rocky Mountain, CO
No meet.
Assistant coach Mike Maher explains, "Rocky Mountain's philosophy
is that it is very hard for high school girls and guys to race every
week. So after big time meets like Liberty Bell and Roy Griak, we went
back to training this week. We are trying to build for the latter part
of the season."
3, Eldorado, NM
Julie Brasher, Rachel
Velarde, and Erin Madden took the top three places
to lead Eldorado to a runaway victory at the Santa Fe Indian Invitational.
Brasher was clocked in 21:09, Velarde 21:26, and Madden 21:37. Laynee
Valverde was 5th in 21:50 and Allison Bedonie 6th in 22:00, leaving
a tight 41-second 1-5 pack gap on a 3.1-mile, rocky terrain course with
several hills.
That adds up to New Mexico's top-ranked team and 17 points. Pojoaque
was next with 80, followed by Del Norte with 111, Penasco at 141, and
host Santa Fe Indian School at 154.
This coming Saturday Eldorado hosts its own invitational and will face
4A-5A ranked New Mexico teams #2 Gallup, #6 io Rancho, #7 St. Pius,
and #11 Del Norte.
4, South Tahoe, CA (but competes in NV state meet)
South Tahoe hosted the Tahoe retro relays, described by coach Dan
Wilvers as a "large, but mostly fun affair, that allows four-person teams
to compete on a tough, hilly 2-mile course." ST is also preparing
for Saturday's important Clovis Invitational. And after last year's early
snow, Wilvers is likely to be praying it doesn't happen again this year.
5, Judge Memorial, UT
Samantha Gaffney couldn't overcome an early
fall, hitting her head on a rock, and running into a tree, so she suffered
a rare defeat (by Fremont's
Cassie Ricks). Her Judge Memorial team was
still an easy winner in the 1A-3A scoring of the Orem Kiwanis Invitational
at UVSC Soccer Field.
Running without two of the top five, Judge parlayed a 1-3-4-6-8 finish
into a winning score of 22, well ahead of Wasatch (50) and Grand County
(76). Missing the two girls, Judge was unable to handle SW#6
Orem in
the overall race, losing by 11 points, 95-106, behind Fremont's winning
53.
For full results, please see Orem Kiwanis Invitational
6, Orem, UT
Home team Orem was an easy winner of the 4A girls title at the Kiwanis
Invitational at UVSC Soccer Field, beating East by 30 points with a score
of 21. Better yet for Orem, it edged SW#5 Judge
Memorial in the
overall race, taking second to SW#1 Fremont (53) with a score of 95,
11 less than Judge.
Orem has only one senior in the lineup, Kate Harline. On the 4A scoring,
she was third in 19:35.6. Sophomore Krystal Harper and freshman Kendy
Christensen led the way in the first two places with times of 19:00.0
and 19:32.0. Sophomore Sarah Bartlett was four for the team (7th/20:57.8)
and junior Jamie Gee fifth (8th/21:02.8). Another junior Britney
Wilson was sixth runner (10th/21:17.9).
For full results, please see Orem Kiwanis Invitational
7, Cherry Creek, CO
No information available
8, Fort Collins, CO
The Sweetheart Invitational Friday was like the calm before the storm,
the latter being this coming weekend's Centerra Classic which will match
many of the region's ranked teams. The importance of that meet as well
as the unusual Loveland HS course adjoining North Lake Park caused many
teams to hold out their top runners. The course is said to have over
40 turns, mostly on a grass surface but also with some sand and concrete
as well as a few short hills.
Running without its seniors, Fort Collins fell, 58-79, to SW#9
Fairview.
Miranda Benzel and Alicia
Holt led the Fort Collins effort in 3rd and
8th places, clocking 20:12 and 20:59, respectively.
And now everybody waits for the storm.
Team Scores
1, Fairview 58
2, Fort Collins 79
3, Cheyenne Central 89
4, Thompson Valley 106
5, Arapahoe 129
6, Smoky Hill 137
7, Mountain View 155
8, Loveland 177
9, Wheat Ridge 225
10, Poudre 237
11, Dakota Ridge 338
Individuals:
1, Meredith Macgrego, Fairview, 19:49
2, Morgan Stumb, Fairview, 20:10
3, Miranda Benzel, Fort Collins, 20:12
4, Denise Kintzley, Poudre, 20:17
5, Sarah Cocco, Fairview, 20:49
6, Tianna Hurtado, Thompson Valley
7, Katie Cookie, Cheyenne Central, 20:58
8, Alicia Holt, Fort Collins, 20:59
9, Brianne Beemer, Mountain View, 21:05
10, Brandie Kavalec, Mountain View, 21:07
9, Fairview, CO
Fairview outran SW#8 Fort Collins Friday in the Sweetheart Invitational
hosted by Loveland HS in a meet that saw many of the teams hold out their top
runners so they would be more ready for this Saturday's Centerra Classic. You'll
find a good description of the course directly above in the report on Fort Collins.
Fairview took three of the top five places with Meredith
Macgrego winning in
19:49. Morgan Stumb was second in 20:10 and Sarah
Cocco fifth in 20:49.
For team and individual standings, please go to Fort Collins directly above.
10, Provo, UT
Coach Phil Olsen didn't race his girls this past weekend, trying to get them
ready for Regions and 4A States. "I'm trying to instill confidence in our
top three to beat Orem at Region and State and Mountain Crest at State," Olsen
reports.
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