Boys - Girls

BOYS:

Boys

Arizona

AZ kicked off their season with the largest meet of the season, next to the State Meet Championships, held at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff at 7100 feet in elevation. The Peaks Invitational saw 50+ teams in action, with SW#4/US#25 Page boys not
disappointing. The Sand Devils from Page placed 3, 5, 7, 10, 11 and their 6th man finished a very impressive 14th, for a total of 36 points. Chinle finished in 2nd place, in front of Tuba City with 136 points in 3rd place. Tiny Northland Prep rounded
out the top four and provided the winner of the race with Senior Tolan Thornton (11th NON 2 mile, 9:09.18) defeating a
tightly knit group until 20 meters before the finish. A smaller invite held in the southern part of the state, the Tiger Classic –
Marana, saw seven teams toe the line. Ironwood Ridge of Tucson won this affair with 28 points, followed by Canyon del
Oro with 67 points.

Peaks Invitational Results

Tiger Invitational Results

Next week’s major meets:

Sept. 9th Window Rock

Sept. 10th Ray Wherley (Prescott)

Sept. 10th Chandler

Colorado

Both the boys and girls teams from Fort Collins sent out an early warning to pundits that they should not to be counted out
of anyone’s rankings --

Summary of the Pat Patten Invitational – Friday, September 2nd

The big meet of the weekend was at Boulder at the Pat Patten Invitational, held on Friday and hosted by Boulder High School. The boys varsity race featured two of the top teams in the state of Colorado; SW#1/US#6 Denver South and Smokey Hill. Fort Collins High School was led by a 2nd place finish in Tyler Abbey, while Mohamud Ige of Denver South won individual honors. Despite graduating four varsity runners from last year’s State Championship team, Fort Collins also had strong finishes from Bryant Mason 8th, Will Everett 10th, Paul Brown 12th, and Jon Kittell 14th. Fort Collin’s #1 runner, Noah Shannon, did not compete as he was on a recruiting trip in Wisconsin, but will join the team next week at the Cherry Creek Invitational.

Results: 1st Fort Collins High School - 42 Ind. 1st ind. Mohamud Ige, Denver South, 16:10

2nd Smoky Hill High School- 54 2nd ind. Tyler Abbey, Fort Collins, 16:38

3rd Denver South High School-61 3rd ind. Tyler Erickson, Smoky Hill, 16:45

(No results currently online)

Also on Thursday last week, the Harrison Invitational was hosted on the State course in Colorado Springs. SW#5 Cherry Creek was nipped by unranked Dakota Ridge (141–147). So early in the season, many of the teams, as reported,
use the race as a workout or to develop strategy for meets later.

In the CO rankings out on 9/5, Cherry Creek drops to 4th in the 5A state rankings behind, Fort Collins, 2nd Smoky Hill, 3rd Dakota Ridge, and 5th Denver North.

Harrison Invitational Results

New Mexico

At the Del Norte Invitational, SW#2/US#12 Albuquerque Academy defeated defending champion and runner-up SW#9 Gallup 22 – 68. Academy’s Junior Dustin Martin wins in an impressive 17:27 over a 3.1 mile course at 6000 feet in
elevation. It was the 2nd fastest time in meet history behind Shadrack Kiptoo's 16:21 back in 2001.

Del Norte Results

At the Joe Vigil Invitational in Alamosa, CO. SW#7 Los Alamos defeated St. Michaels (Santa Fe). Individually, Ryan McNiff and Simon Gilna, of Los Alamos, both broke the old course record of 16:01. Their times were 15:55 and 15:58 respectively. Glenn Randall of Palisade (CO), who took 9th at Foot Locker Midwest Champs last year, set the old record last September.

Boys Team:

1. Los Alamos 35
2. St. Mikes 64
3. Rye (CO) 110
4. Monte Vista (CO) 118
5. Pojoaque 150
6. Farmington 162
7. Pueblo
West (CO) 215
8. Fountain-Fort Carson (CO) 248
9. Alamosa (CO) 253
10. Pueblo City (CO); 263

Boys Individual:
1. Ryan McNiff, Los Alamos 15.55;
2. Sim Gilna, LA 15.58;
3. Nathan Romero, LA 17:01
4. Saul Martinez, Center 17.24
5. Mike Hart, St. Mikes 17:30;
6. Matt Fant, SM 17:34;
7. Matt Reschke, Monte Vista 17.38;
8. Logan Gogarty, Rye 17:42
9. Lasker Nee; Farmington 17:42
10. Chris Villagomez, Center 17.50

Utah

SW#7 Mountain View opened up their season on August 27 competing in the Southern Utah University’s High School
Invitational in Cedar City, Utah. Mountain View went 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 6th to win the race.

South Utah University HS Invitational Results

On Saturday, September 3, Mountain View ran at the Bulldog/Utah County Invitational, which was a full 5K with tall
grass and many steady hills and considered a very difficult course. Along with many other schools present there were
nationally ranked SW#3/US#20 American Fork and SW#6 Judge Memorial. Although Mountain View’s top runner Adam McDonald was very ill, he still overcame his illness to help them win the meet. Mountain View put their top 5 runners in the top 15 going 1,5,10,11, and 14 with a gap of less than 45 seconds. The MV boys are on track to being
one of the fastest teams to come out of Mountain View High School.

Nevada

Next Friday is the Reed Invitational

GIRLS:

Arizona

AZ kicked off their season with the largest meet in the state, next to the State Meet Championships, in Flagstaff at 7100
feet in elevation. The Peaks Invitational saw 50+ teams in action. Kari Hardt of Queen Creek HS was hard pressed by
Sandra Day O’Connor’s Lindsey Prescott until 1200 meters to go. The team championship was won by Phoenix’s Xavier
Prep, with SW#8 Mountain Pointe idle. At the Tiger Invite Ironwood Ridge HS won the team title beating SW#6 Flowing
Wells, who finished a distanced 3rd. Flowing Well’s had some redemption with Tara Erdmann the eventual winner by
almost a minute margin.

Peaks Invitational Results

Tiger Invitational Results

Colorado

Summary of the Pat Patten Invitational – Friday, September 2nd

This race featured two of the top teams in the State of Colorado, as well as the SW#5 Fairview and SW#9 Smoky Hill.
Fort Collins High School was led by a 2nd place finish in Katie Follett, and newcomer Katelyn Keating at 6th place.
However, the depth of FCHS proved too much for Fairview and Smokey Hill with a 9th place finish by Alicia Holt, 12th
place by Maddie Dengler, and 13th place by Kelsey Follett. Two varsity freshmen competed at the Poudre Invite in Fort
Collins, and they will join these five next week at the Cherry Creek Invitational. Individual winner, Katelyn Vanatta, a
freshman, defeated Smoky Hill’s Keara Sammons.

Results: 1st Fort Collins High School - 42 Ind. 1st Katelyn Vanatta, Ralston Valley 18:31

2nd Fairview High School -57 2nd Katie Follett, Fort Collins, 18:42

3rd Smoky Hill High School- 69 3rd. Keara Sammons, Smoky Hill, 18:45

New Mexico

At the Joe Vigil Invitational in Alamosa unranked Los Alamos defeated Pojoaque, by a slim margin of 50-53.

Partial team results:

Los Alamos (NM) 50,
Pojoaque (NM) 53,
Farmington (NM) 152,
Santa Fe (NM) 247,
Fountain-Ft. Carson (CO) 251.

Individually, Tess Amer of St. Michael's (NM) won by a large margin (official time not available at press time). The Los Alamos girl scorers were: 3rd place Analisa Sandoval 19:53, 10th place Megan Stockton 20:37, 11th place Margaret
Wood 20:38, 12th place Ali Blum 20:44, and 14th place Anna Trugman 20:51.

No results online.

Next week is the UNM Invitational, a virtual who's who of the top teams in NM… “lots of early season questions
will get answered.”

Nevada

In the annual kick-off “Class” race (where each class races against other runners in that grade), South Tahoe dominated
with 4 girls within 25 seconds of each other. A 5th girl had an asthma attached or would have been in the 25 second
spread. Reno did not participate in the meet.

The Reno teams raced at the Granite Bay Invitational in Northern California. The SW#3 Reno girls easily won 61 - 109
for second place. There were twenty plus teams, including all the top teams from Northern California. There was only a
25 second spread between Reno's 2nd to 5th runners, with Melanie "Mel" Lawrence winning by a big margin. The top five Reno girls all placed in the top twenty.

Granite Bay Results

Utah

SW#10 Mountain View opened up their season on August 27 competing in the Southern Utah University High School
Invitational in Cedar City. The Lady Bruins ran against the 3A power Cedar City and a top runner from Nevada but
pulled through for a win.

At the Grass Valley relays SW#1 Fremont, having everyone back from last year's 5th place Nike Team Nationals finish,
lived up to expectations by running the 3rd fastest team time ever on the grass relays course with a cumulative 64:19
(course record 62:32 by the legendary 1999 Bingham team). Second place was Mountain Crest (Hyrum, Ut) in 67:34,
followed by Provo, Ut (68:07), American Fork, Ut. (68:27), and Spanish Fork, Ut. (69:50). Fremont's girls went 1, 2, 5, 6,
and 12 in the individual places.

Grass Valley Results

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