Bill/Jacob,
On Friday night Flastaff, NPA and many other high schools competed in what is billed as the the biggest high school cross country meet in Arizona.
Last night I wanted to send you a summary of the results, but I was just too beat and retired to bed early than I wanted. In today’s paper, I thought I’d see something since I figured Trina would report on how her excellent girls’ team performed. Since perhaps she didn’t, I’m hoping if something might be reported in Monday’ paper? Feel free to use whatever you’d like from my summary below:
On Friday night night several northern Arizona teams traveled to Gilbert to race in the Desert Twilight Cross Country Festival, hosted by Queen Creek High School, to be joined by 100 other high schools from across the state, New Mexico, and even a team from Mountain Brook, Alabama. There were 19 different races and in all, the Flagstaff schools, as well as northern Arizona in general, represented themselves very well. Although most of the races take place after the sun sets, under the lights and stars of the desert, at 9:00 PM, while the Championship girls race was finishing, the temperature was still hovering around the mid-90’s.
Northland Prep’s girls competed in the Small School Varsity (for schools with a population less than 1,800 students) race, finishing in 2nd place, with 151 points, behind, Scottsdale Saguaro High School, who won with 129 points. Other northern Arizona schools finishing included, Prescott with 175 points in 5th place, Blue Ridge with 205 points in 7th place, Sedona Red Rocks, with 218 points in 9th place and Coconino with 332 points in 14th place. A total of 25 schools raced in this division, with 174 runners finishing. Individually, the race was won by Sedona Red Rocks, junior Mykala Seresun in 19:28.1, with her teammate Eva Wilson finishing right behind in 20:22.3. NPA’s Keven Griffen was 5th in 20:42. Also finishing for NPA was Andrea Picard (21st) in 21:53, Jasmine Muller-Hsia (43rd) in 22:38, Regan Gee (46th) in 22:43 and rounding out the scoring top five for the Spartans was frosh Gabriella Evans (48th) in 22:51. Coconino’s first runner was junior Deserae Tarr, finishing 23rd in 21:55, followed by teammate Carlee Williams (66th) in 23:54.
In the boys Small School Varsity race, NPA boys also finished in second place, with 112 points, behind the eventual winner, Winslow, with 108 points (now coached by Flagstaff HS alum Annie (nee) Fowler). Flagstaff and northern Arizona top finishers include:
(place, name, school, time)
4th, Cody Sangster, Winslow, 17:36;
5th, Aaron Biah, Coconino, 17:29;
7th, John Hoskie, Winslow, 17:30;
11th, Dominic Tosi, NPA, 17:36;
12th, Cullen Hamblin, NPA, 17:39;
19th, Jon Hall, NPA, 17:59;
22nd, Kevin Decker, Winslow, 18:09;
24th, Harrison Thurgood, Coconino, 18:14;
25th, Andrew Jacobs, NPA, 18:15;
30th, Jullian Melvin, Coconino, 18:24;
36th, Milland Thomas, Winslow, 18:34;
39th, Lorin Greenwood, Winslow, 18:38;
45th, Nick Schulz, NPA, 18:48;
46th, Levi Hatch, Coconino, 18:49.
22 full teams scoring, with 169 athletes finishing.
The Flagstaff High School girls and boys ran in the more competitive, “Championship Race” with Tiatiana Gillick the overall winner and the girls finishing in 2nd place overall and the boys finishing in 10th place.
Here’s the web site where you can find both team and individual results:
I hope this hope (a little) in summarizing how area teams competed in what’s billed as the “premiere” race of the season in Arizona.
Thanks for all you do,
