MISSOULA — The Montana’s males’s and girls’s cross nation groups ran to eighth- and ninth-place finishes on the Large Sky Convention Championships on Friday morning in Cheney, Washington.
The Grizzlies had 5 people who positioned within the high 50 of the boys’s or ladies’s races, led by senior and Kalispell Glacier grad Annie Hill, at twenty sixth.
Montana’s males completed in eighth place, with 215 factors. Whereas the Grizzlies had been hoping to be slightly larger within the rankings, they had been considerably forward of ninth-place Sacramento State (260) and last-place Northern Colorado (291), and had been only a single level behind each Japanese Washington and Idaho State, who tied for sixth place with 214 factors.
Previous to the meet, head coach Doug Fraley felt as if Hill – Montana’s senior switch from Colorado – may contend for a top-quarter end within the ladies’s area, and she or he was close to that, putting twenty sixth out of 78 runners with a 5k time of 17:39.4. It was one of the best particular person efficiency by a Grizzly since Beatrix Frissell positioned twelfth on the 2020-21 meet.
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Following Hill, nonetheless, there was a steep dropoff, resulting in the ninth-place staff end (233 factors).
Frissell, who was not working at full power, was second among the many Griz ladies, putting 53rd (18:39.0), adopted by Bridget Boyle (18:40.3, 54th), Jaylyn Hallgrimson (18:51.4, 58th) and Iris McKean (18:52.0, 59th). Kayla Ingraham (19:04.9, sixty fifth), Shay Pederson (19:16.1, 67th) and Abby Sherwood (20:16.7, seventy fifth) additionally competed for Montana, which completed one spot forward of the place it did a season in the past, when the Grizzlies positioned tenth within the 11-team Large Sky.
Senior Rogelio Mares clocked in first amongst Griz runners within the males’s 8k race, at thirty eighth (25:13.0), which ranked within the upper-half of the 79-runner area. Nathan Carter, who had been Montana’s high male runner all through the autumn, positioned forty third (25:17.2).
Maxwell Scott (25:31.1, forty seventh) – who ran a personal-best time in his debut meet of 2022 – and Will Dauenhauer (25:34.7, forty eighth) had been additionally within the high 50, adopted by Brady Woods (25:45.9, 56th), Cooper Morris (25:56.3, 58th) and Lane Cole (PR 26:15.9, 63rd). Colin Shaules began the race however was unable to complete.
For the boys, it was their third consecutive top-eight end, after going 4 straight years ending in tenth or eleventh.
Montana will conclude its cross nation season in two weeks on the NCAA Mountain Regional meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Nov. 11).