{"id":30919,"date":"2023-10-30T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-girls-cross-country-team-14th-at-state-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:30:15","slug":"dolores-girls-cross-country-team-14th-at-state-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-girls-cross-country-team-14th-at-state-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores girls cross-country team 14th at state championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dolores' Everlee Heaton (79) runs ahead of Sargent's KayleeAnn Martinez (200) and Loveland Classical Academy's Sydney Lehner (133) during second-mile action of the 2023 CHSAA State Cross-Country Championships' Class 2A girls' race Saturday morning in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/For the Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

EL PASO COUNTY \u2013 Protruding through low-hanging clouds, indicators of the winter storm system predicted to slam much of Colorado that very day, a rainbow effectively let the girls competing in the 2023 CHSAA Class 2A State Cross-Country Championships\u2019 opening 9 a.m. race that though it\u2019d be cold, the weather would hold.<\/p>\n

Those girls were Class 2A\u2019s best, and that lot included surprising Dolores.<\/p>\n

And despite not running in Colorado Springs on the level of, say, Leadville-based Lake County \u2013 which finished second as a team after a dominant first-place effort at the previous Friday\u2019s Region IV Championships held at Boggy Draw, north of Dolores \u2013 the Lady Bears concluded their season Saturday strides and strides ahead of no fewer than six other squads.<\/p>\n

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Dolores' Maya Lowe (82) runs during second-mile action of the 2023 CHSAA State Cross-Country Championships' Class 2A girls' race Saturday morning in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/For the Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

All told, DHS amassed an adjusted 254 points in the race\u2019s score-4 system, and placed 14th. Trailing Dolores were Oak Creek Soroco (266), Nederland (280), Rocky Ford (301), Pueblo West Swallows Charter Academy (319), Colorado Springs Thomas MacLaren School (342) and Rye (362).<\/p>\n

Fort Collins Heritage Christian Academy, on the other hand, capped the crown with a race-low 37 points. LCHS was close behind with 47, and Springs-based Banning Lewis Preparatory Academy (69) ranked third out of the 20 crews fortunate to have prolonged their season long enough to compete upon the Norris-Penrose Event Center course.<\/p>\n

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Dolores' Everlee Heaton (79) runs ahead of Sargent's KayleeAnn Martinez (200) and Loveland Classical Academy's Sydney Lehner (133) during second-mile action of the 2023 CHSAA State Cross-Country Championships' Class 2A girls' race Saturday morning in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/For the Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Junior Everlee Heaton paced DHS with a 62nd -place time of 22 minutes, 41.20 seconds \u2013 or 4:22.10 behind individual winner Nadhia Campos, a junior at Springs-based The Vanguard School. Next to finish for the Lady Bears were juniors Elia Lowe (74th) and Keira LaRose (84th), who clocked 23:07.60 and 23:44.60, respectively. Finalizing DHS\u2019 scoring quartet, junior Maya Lowe (24:26.50) came in 96th, and classmate Coralea Wright (28:47.00) finished 119th.<\/p>\n

Placing top-five after Campos were HCA sophomore Mikaela Kendall (19:22.60), BLPA junior Alexia Gonzales (19:44.40), Telluride sophomore Austin Cook (19:52.80) and Grand Junction Caprock Academy senior Taylor Skinner (20:09.30).<\/p>\n

In the Class 2A boys\u2019 race, which commenced 80 minutes after the girls\u2019 and with the Fahrenheit still stuck in the high 30s\/low 40s despite persistent sunshine, sophomore Aaron Nielson\u2013Dolores\u2019 lone qualifier \u2013 clocked 19 minutes, 7.30 seconds and placed 91st out of 136 finishers.<\/p>\n

Colorado Springs Christian School junior Andrew Bel finished first in 16:16.60; Golden View Classical Academy earned the team title with a low score-4 count of 42 points, less than half of runner-up BLPA\u2019s 85.<\/p>\n

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Dolores' Aaron Nielson (78) runs with Ignacio's Corey Gomez (114) while finishing the second mile of the 2023 CHSAA State Cross-Country Championships' Class 2A boys' race Saturday morning in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/For the Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

boys\u2019 qualifier Nielson cracks top 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,2809,642,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-cross-country","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81253,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919\/revisions\/81253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30919"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}