Results from September 15

The new rankings put out on September 12 by Arizona Track.

On the ladies’ side
6. Mt. View
14. Catalina
15. Salpointe
16. Catalina Foothills
17. Rio Rico
19. Ironwood Ridge
21. Sabino
25. Buena

Boys
5. Rio Rico
9. Salpointe
12.Catalina Foothills
16. Sabino
17. Nogales
19. Catalina
22. Mt. View
27. Sunnyside
29. Buena

Teams traveled this weekend to the northern part of the state and as far a California. Rio Rico, Catalina and Rincon made the trek up north to The Four Corners Invitational in (where?). The Rio Rico girls were first as a team and were led by senior Hanna Henson who was second overall (19:52) followed by 3rd place finisher Melanie McGrath (19:52) of Catalina and teammate, 4th place finisher Aeoleone Bristow (20:08). Other note worthy performances were Magda Mankel at 5th and Amanda Beckham of Catalina at 6th.

On the boys side Rio Rico was second overall (85 points) to a very strong Mingus Union High School team at 34 Points. Catalina finished 4th with a score of 151. Senior Bobby Evans lead the way for Rio Rico finishing 3rd. Another top ten finisher for Rio Rico was Sophomore Jose Luis Munoz.

Ojo Rojo Invitational-
The Ojo Rojo Invitational was attended by teams from Ironwood Ridge, CDO, Casa Grande and Marana who finished 10,11,12 and 23 respectively. Taking home the top performance for Southern Arizona was CDO senior Kyle Bush who was 10th with a time of 16:10 for the 2.95 mile course. Brandon Pits of Ironwood Ridge finished 19th in 16:24 and was followed closely by Alex Andre at 16:25 of Casa Grande.
On the ladies side, out of the 28 teams Ironwood Ridge finished 9th. CDO came in 10th and Casa Grande finished 12th with Sarah Miville being the first Southern Arizona runner to cross the finish line with a 6th place finish overall.

Mt.Carmel Invitational-
The races are broken up in to 4 different classifications by class. Sophomore Jill Magnuson of Salpointe finished first at 16:56. Freshman Mary Bowen of Sabino finished 4th at 17:34 was followed by team mate Christina Price at 5th (17:16) and closely followed by 7th place finisher Shelby Slocum (17:47) of Sahuaro. In the junior race Julia Restin of Salpointe was 3rd at 16:45. Brittany Vaughn of Mountain View was 5th (16:48) in the junior classification. In the senior race Kelsey Sheppard of Salpointe was 10th with a time of 17:51.

This weekend, September 22 Sunnyside will play host to Southern Arizona’s Biggest High School meet where teams will try and sort out the top 20 rankings in hope of getting invited to the Doug Conley Invitational on September 29th.