Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cedar Invite

The XC team headed to the Cedar Invite last Friday at Cedar HS.  This meet is a great opportunity for our runners to judge their improvement for the year since it is also the first race we run each year.
As usual, the Youngsters started us off very well.  Alli P. led the girls with a strong time of 12:30 for the 1.75 mile course.  Sergio D. ran a great race and won the boys race in a time of 10:33.
In the high school races, the JV girls saw many PR's and big improvements off of the first race of the season.  The Varsity girls didn't run their best, but still managed a 3rd place finish behind Rachel Stone's 5th place finish.  When the scoring was broken down to just our region schools, the girls ended up 2nd behind Cedar, but not too close like we were last week when we actually beat Cedar in the broken down region scoring.
The boys JV really hammered the course again this week finishing all scorers in the top 10 and getting a score of 36.  Paul Gaona ran a great race to place 2nd in 16:31 for the 2.95 mile course.  He was followed by Matt Young in 16:47, Taylor Hobbs in 16:54, Nick Hill in 16:55, Kyler Prisbrey in 17:00 and Reed Burr finished just outside the top 10 with a 17:03.  The Varsity boys showed some strong improvements and bounced back from last week's less than impressive run with a 2nd place showing to DH.  Despite running a little flat Micheal Finch (a little blurp about Mikey on Milesplit) was able to pull out the win in the last 1/2 mile with a time of 15:07 (just a few seconds off the course record),.  Casey Kimzey ran his strongest race of the year and placed 13th (15:53) followed closely by Byron Warby in 15:54.  Jason Lindhard (16:08) and Colton Bowler (16:19) rounded out our scoring.
After many great races and time improvements it is now time to focus toward Region.  The JV's will be racing at Snow Canyon on Wednesday and then Region will be held at Bicentennial Park in Cedar on Tuesday the 9th.





































1 comment:

Patty said...

Geez coach!! I checked the girls times and both Rachel and Mia PR'd - by 25+ seconds!! That's a huge improvement for both of them. It's the best they've run all season.