Double Region Champs!

Congrats to the girls and boys who both claimed Region 9 titles last night at the Region 9 South Course! Kaylee and Tyson Boyer brought their stellar Region careers to an end with individual Region 9 victories.
Middle School: The day started strong with the Middle School race where some of our big crew of 6th-8th graders came and raced. Nick Hill ran a great race and outkicked a Hurricane kid for the win. Many other boys also ran great - all of them easily beating their previous course PR's. On the ladies side, we took 4 of the top 6 places - led by Alli Peterson and Josie Bushar; again all of the girls easily beat their course PR's!
JV Girls: The JV Girls have been our biggest surprise this season and they continued to run great at Region. We placed 3rd-6th (Liz Lunt, MaKayla Baxter, Liz Harrison, and Talor Boyer) and took a very close 2nd to Cedar when Abby Doty rounded out scoring at 11th. We hope Kelsi will get feeling better soon after her fall - such a bummer for her and the team... get feeling better Kels!
JV Boys: We knew this was going to be our toughest race coming into the meet. And it played out that way. Our boys had a strong game plan going into the race and executed well, but Desert Hills and Cedar really both brought their A games. However, we were all very excited for Byron Warby's start-to-finish win in a very strong time of 17:56! Congrats Byron!
Varsity Girls: The girls ran an extremely smart and well-paced race. Kaylee made a strong move early and took over the race and pushed for the win in 19:21 on this VERY difficult course - the toughest course we run all year. Jessica Peterson and Rachel Stone pushed close behind and finished in 3rd and 4th. Frida Nilsson ran a strong race and ended up placing 8th; and our scoring was rounded out by a strong run by Mia Hart finishing 14th. The ladies dominated the team scoring and won 30 to 56 over Cedar - for our 2nd consecutive Region Title! Next was Snow Canyon with 98 points and 100 for Canyon View to round out those teams qualifying for State. We do want to recognize Kaylee once again for her victory - especially since it was her 3rd Straight Region Title! That's right... 3 years of XC and 3 Region Titles!
Varsity Boys: The boys ran a strong race, pushing to their 5th Consecutive Region Title and 10th overall! Tyson Boyer (16:31) put himself into the lead early in the race and held off a strong effort by Ingalls of Snow Canyon and Devin Gillespie(3rd 16:41). Jared Ellsworth ran a very strong race to finish 3rd on the team and 6th overall. Michael Finch (9th) and Timmy Lunt (16) finished off our scoring to put us at 35 - well ahead of 2nd place Desert Hills at 72, Canyon View at 78, and Hurricane at 106 to finish off the State qualifiers.
Read the Spectrum article here.