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And then there was one.<\/p>\n
Able to earn an \u201cunattached\u201d berth into the 2020 CHSAA Class 2A State Cross-country Championships, Mancos\u2019 Grace Manning will be Montezuma County\u2019s only representative in Colorado Springs at the season\u2019s grand finale.<\/p>\n
Competing at the 2A-Region IV Championships in Delta on Friday, Oct. 9, the Lady Jays\u2019 leader clocked an eighth-place 21:11.93 \u2013 not too far off the winning 20:31.58 pace set by Crested Butte Community School\u2019s Ruby Pendy. Chloe Endres was Mancos\u2019 No. 2 finisher, taking 26th in 23:14.21, and Clara Most (33rd, 23:55.32) came in third.<\/p>\n
Overall, Mancos tallied an adjusted score-4 102 points to rank sixth in the team standings. Led by top San Juan Basin League individual Maci Barnes (third, 20:44.11), Ignacio grabbed first with a meet-low 51, and Carbondale-based Colorado Rocky Mountain School (69) and Kremmling West Grand (71) followed in second and third.<\/p>\n
At Norris-Penrose Event Center this Saturday, Oct. 17, the 2A boys will begin running at 2 p.m., and the 2A girls will start about 2:45 p.m. Manning will head out onto the course in the second of four 25-runner waves \u2014 a safety measure implemented amidst the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
Dolores\u2019 Michael Brafford finished the boys race seventh in 18:12.69, while Crested Butte\u2019s Connor Williams clocked a winning 16:36.08 \u2013 nearly a full minute over Ouray\u2019s Vincent Schierenberg and Oak Creek Soroco\u2019s Alex Colby. Dolores\u2019 No. 2, Dillon Brengle, placed 47th in 20:57.63, and Daniel Vandever was 54th in 21:37.92.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately Brafford\u2019s effort wasn\u2019t enough to earn him one of only two available \u201cunattached\u201d tickets to the championships, and neither was the 10-place 18:26.37 posted by Mancos\u2019 Edgar Hernandez; places 2-10 were separated by about 51 seconds.<\/p>\n
Connor Sehnert took 22nd in 19:16.65, and Connor Lee 63rd in 22:19.07, but Mancos finished 11th as a team with 166 points. Among SJBL boys teams, however, that score ranked second-best behind only Ouray\u2019s title-taking low of 56. Ignacio (173) and Dolores (178) immediately followed the Jays in the standings, while runners-up Rangely (91) and third-place Grand Junction Caprock Academy (92) snapped up the final two team-qualifying spots.<\/p>\n
Anaya Martinez led Dolores\u2019 Lady Bears by placing 50th in 25:43.80. Noble Traweek took 65th in 28:52.58, and Piper Singleton was 71st in 35:33.39, but with just three entrants at Confluence Park, Dolores did not factor into the title chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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