Weekend Results

On September 7th Arizona Track came out with the new state rankings for the week that included on the girls side :

Ranking School
8 Catalina
10 Catalina Foothills
11 Marana Mountain View
12 Rio Rico
14 Ironwood Ridge
17 Salpointe
18 Flowing Wells
25 Buena

The Boys’ Rankings were:
3 Rio Rico
6 Catalina Foothills
12 Salpointe
13 Catalina
14 Nogales
20 Marana Mountain View

Local teams were busy this weekend (September 8) with teams participating in many different meets that included. the Sue Fletcher Invitational (Buena), Chandler Invitational, Wherley Invitational (Prescott) and the Scottsdale Running Company CC Festival.

Sue Fletcher Invitational
On the boys side Sabino took home the team title, individual winner and in the process beat 20th ranked Mountain View. Other significant accomplishments were Nogales was 2nd with 64 points,3rd was Mountain View with 68 and Buena was 4th with 72 points. Sabino was led by Steven Gregg and a strong Sabino pack which had its 5th man finishing a 1:32 back from there number one.
On the girls’ side Sabino took the team title scoring 52 points creating a Sabino sweep. 52 points proved to be just enough to beat out Buena who scored 57 and in 3rd Nogales with 59 points.
Chandler Invitational
The Chandler Invitational is run in a non- traditional format where runners are competing with only the people in their class. This meet found Nathan Mesta 3rd(15:44) in the senior race, CDO senior Kyle Bush 15th(16:37) and Casa Grande Senior Alex Aranda 17th(16:41).Other noteworthy finishes were Flowing Wells Sophomore Bravo Humerto 5th(16:17).
The Chandler Invitational proved to be good for the ladies of Mountain View. They placed second to Desert Vista. Ironwood Ridge finished in a tie for 4th. In the Freshman race Sara Miville of Iron Wood Ridge took home first place with a time of 18:58 Brittany Vaughn of Mountain View was 4th in the Junior race with a time 19:16.

Wherley Invitational
Only had one school at the meet representing Southern Arizona. This was another non- traditionally scored meet where the runners run in a race where they compete against others based on there standing on their respective teams. The Sunnyside Boys finished 5th and the Girls finished 9th.

Scottsdale Running Company CC Festival
The CC Festival was only attended by Salpointe and they represented Southern Arizona well with a 3rd place finish and strong showing for their top four. On the ladies side Salpointe finished 5th.