Region 9 Championships

It was a much warmer day than usual (as has been pretty much this whole season!) up at Bicentennial Park in Cedar City, site of the 2015 Region 9 Championships; however, that didn't stop the Panthers from having an outstanding day.

     In the Middle School race, our Youngsters Boys placed 3rd overall - led by Scottie Bushar in 2nd and Bryan Richardson in 10th - and our Girls claimed first by placing 6 in the top 10; led by Sarah Snow in 1st, Alli Baker 4th, Jessica Hill 7th, Pyper Holt 8th, Gracie Clements 9th and Kya Cottam 10th.

    The JV races saw continued Pine View domination.  The girls started strong and carried it throughout the race.  Brianna Loya had her best race of the season and won in decided fashion.  She was followed by Sylvia Brown in 2nd, Addi Baker 3rd, Seanne Smith 5th and Megan Finch 8th to win 19 to 41 (Cedar).  The JV girls saw many other great races too: Brynnli Borrowman ran a break-out race; Kaylee Benson ran very well and Destiny Rios continued to show great improvement.  The boys continued the winning ways using our depth to take the team title 27 to 32 over DH.  Placing in the top 10 were Paul Gaona 3rd, Jason Hall 4th, Andrew Nielsen 5th, Jake Taylor 7th and Logan Hall 8th.  Mikey Abegglen continues to race very strong; Xander Reese had his best race of the season; and Aiden Taylor had a particularly strong race as well.

     The Varsity races started strong with the girls winning their 2nd straight Region Title!  Although DH (53) and Cedar (57) ran strong races and have both shown great improvement over the season, our depth and pack running was too much to overcome.  Meskerem Stucki took over the race at about 1.5 miles and never looked back.  She ended up winning the Region Title by 6 seconds over teammate Rylee Holt who ran strong throughout to claim the runner-up position.  She was followed by Caroline Clements in 4th, Josie Bushar in 8th, Ellie Bushar 10th, Jacey Finch 11th and Alli Peterson 14th.
     The boys then ran their best race against nationally ranked DH in years and took a solid 2nd at 22 to 38 (with Cedar 3rd at 82).  Nick Hill finished strong and narrowly got out-kicked to finish in 3rd.  The races of the day belonged to our next 3 finishers with Dallen Gillespie finishing 4th, Mitch Price taking 7th and Carson Horspool taking 10th and medaling in his first true Varsity race.  Our scoring rounded out with Skylar Abel finishing 14th; he was followed by Preston Warby in 16th and Alex Hill in 21st.

This was an outstanding meet!  We loved the support from parents and family, administration, PVXC'ers 4 Ever, and other members of the Panther community.
Thanks to our Seniors for all the great memories, your hard work and dedication, and your example to help keep building this program for many more years and many more great Region races!  We love you and will miss you.
Check out the Spectrum's and the St. George News' articles about the Region 9 Championships.