{"id":44830,"date":"2021-09-06T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hernandez-mancos-boys-finish-in-top-10-at-stampede-cross-country-meet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:21:59","slug":"hernandez-mancos-boys-finish-in-top-10-at-stampede-cross-country-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hernandez-mancos-boys-finish-in-top-10-at-stampede-cross-country-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hernandez, Mancos boys finish in top 10 at Stampede cross-country meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mancos' Edgar Hernandez enters the Bear Creek Park section of the 2021 Cheyenne Mountain Stampede's Norris-Penrose Event Center\/BCP course Friday, Sept. 3, in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Mancos cross-country anchor Edgar Hernandez on Friday placed in the top 10 at the prestigious Cheyenne Mountain Stampede. But he\u2019s still not satisfied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slowed down quite a bit; I think I could have run faster,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He had just finished the course that will host the state finals this fall, a year after being denied a spot in the 2020 race because of pandemic-reduced field.<\/p>\n

Friday, Hernandez could have slyly held back to conceal his capabilities against the classification\u2019s best. But overall, he finished 10th in 18 minutes, 20.4 seconds, about 20 seconds behind the seventh-place runner, Fort Collins Heritage Christian Academy\u2019s Ryan O\u2019Loughlin, and the group chasing winner Jodzuel Juarez of Ellicott. Sixth place at last season\u2019s state meet, Juarez posted 16:35.6, about four seconds faster than HCA\u2019s Jack Nauman (16:39.5). Heritage Christian\u2019s Andrey Kutchma (17:16.7) came in third, and Dylan Brush (17:34.9) of Colorado Springs St. Mary\u2019s was fourth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some spots that were pretty sunny \u2013 I kind of struggled with the heat \u2013 but other than that it was pretty good,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cLast year, I didn\u2019t make it, so I\u2019m kind of glad being back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next to cross for Mancos was Connor Sehnert, who took 35th in 20:02.4. Connor Lee place 82nd in 22:49, and Braxton Dennison finished 84th in 23:13.9. Lucas Figueroa ended up 97th in 25:39.8.<\/p>\n

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Mancos' Connor Sehnert approaches the 2-mile marker during the 2021 Cheyenne Mountain Stampede Friday afternoon, Sept. 3, in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All told, 114 runners finished the Stampede\u2019s 2A boys\u2019 race, with Heritage Christian earning first place with a meet-low adjusted (non-scoring individuals were excluded from the mathematics) score-4 tally of 21 points. Colorado Springs\u2019 Thomas MacLaren Charter School took second with 48 and St. Mary\u2019s third with 50. Mancos, meanwhile, ended up accumulating 165 points and ranked ninth out of 14 scoring teams that braved the Norris-Penrose Event Center\/Bear Creek Park route.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heat was a major factor,\u201d Sehnert said, \u201cbut also the ending. It rained yesterday, was pretty muggy, and it was kind of hard to finish, but if you could just push through \u2026 there was only 200 meters left. That got all your energy out, definitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did pretty well in the Dolores meet and the Cortez meet, so it\u2019s nice to come up here and see your really highly-competitive teams in the 2A level,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can just take our experience from here and apply it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mancos will next compete Saturday, Sept. 11, in Alamosa at the Joe I. Vigil Invitational upon the grounds of Cattails Golf Course. The Bayfield Invitational is slated for the following weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mancos' Edgar Hernandez enters the Bear Creek Park section of the 2021 Cheyenne Mountain Stampede's Norris-Penrose Event Center\/BCP course Friday, Sept. 3, in Colorado Springs. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013 Mancos cross-country anchor Edgar Hernandez on Friday placed in the top 10 at the prestigious Cheyenne Mountain Stampede. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3382,28,37,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cross-country","tag-headlines","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830","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=44830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86244,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions\/86244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}