35th Doug Conley

The 35^th Annual Doug Conley Invitational was held at Kiwanis Park in Phoenix September 30. This one of a kind meet in Arizona featured the top twenty teams in the state and the teams from Southern Arizona held there own amongst the top twenty teams around the state.

Ladies’ Team Results

4. Salpointe

8. Rio Rico

9. Mountain View

10. Catalina

13. Buena

15. Catalina Foothills

The team race at the Doug Conley Invitational proved that the rankings provided by “Arizona Track.com” are almost spot on. Salpointe came in ranked 5^th and finished 4^th Rio Rico came in with a ranking of 6^th and finished 8^th respectively. In the ladies’ race Mountain Ridge who is ranked second by “Arizona Track.com” was not present at The Doug Conley Invitational due to there participation in the Stanford Invitational in California.

In the individual race Hanna Henson of Rio Rico lead the way for the Southern Arizona area runners with a 3^rd place finish (18:34) next in for Southern Arizona was Magda Mankel of Catalina 10^th (19:27), Aeoleone Bristow of Rio Rico was 11^th (19:27:611), Jodine Steemers of Buena at 11^th (19:27:725), Julia Restin of Salpointe was 15^th (19:36) and Melanie McGrath came in 20th (19:51).

Boys’ Team Results

1. Rio Rico

5. Catalina Foothills

7. Sabino

8. Catalina

9. Mountain View

11. Salpointe

19. Buena

The Doug Conley Invitational proved to be good to the boy’s teams from Southern Arizona. State Favorite, Mingus was not at the meet, they were busy hosting the Mingus Invitational at Clarkdale Park in Clarkdale Arizona where they ran away with the competition beating the second place team by 99 points. Rio Rico once again proved to be one of the teams to beat in the State with their first place finish at Doug Conley scoring 123 points to beat Alhambra by 14 points. Foothills finished an impressive 5^th place, other teams that found themselves out running their ranking by “Arizona Track.com” were Sabino finished 7^th ranked 16^th, Catalina 8^th ranked 20^th.

On the individual side Steve Magnuson of Salpointe continues to run very well in the big meets when it counts, he placed second overall, 17 seconds behind overall winner Jim Walmsley of Horizon (15:46). Rio Rico had a tight pack of three runners who were separated by 4 seconds that included Chris Frazier 6^th (16:15), Jose Luis Munoz 7^th (16:17) Bobby Evans 8^th (16:19). Other finishers were Marcus Whitt Mountain View 16^th (16:30), Steven Gregg Sabino 23rd (16:42), Mitch Kessler Catalina Foothills 24th (16:42:96) and Jackson Messer Salpointe 25th (16:43).