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Closing out their season at the Colorado State Cross-country Championships, which were held at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs on Oct. 26, members of the Mancos High School girls and boys teams performed well.<\/p>\n
Leading the Bluejays among the boys, as he did throughout the season, was sophomore Edgar Hernandez, whose season-best time of 17:58.40 was good enough to place him 21st in a race that featured 131 runners.<\/p>\n
Also cracking the top 100 for Mancos were sophomore Connor Sehnert, who placed 61st (19:01.30), and senior John Lund, who concluded an impressive prep career with a 79th-place finish (19:32.20).<\/p>\n
Other finishers for the Mancos boys included sophomore Vanfasai Jaijong, who placed 119th (22:12.50), freshman Zack Steele, who crossed the line in 129th (24:46.40), and junior Stephen Knezek, who crossed the line in 131st (27:26.70).<\/p>\n
Mancos finished 14th overall in the boys\u2019 team standings as perennial powerhouse Lyons High School captured the boys team championship in Colorado\u2019s 2A Classification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys\u2019 team did such a great job this season of being patient in their races,\u201d Mancos coach Brady Archer wrote in an email to The Journal<\/em>. \u201cWe weren\u2019t exactly where we wanted to be at the end of the meet in terms of team standings, but sometimes races don\u2019t work out the way we had planned. We had a number of great races today against the best in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n On the girls side, Mancos was represented by junior Grace Manning, who placed 22nd overall (21:59.60) in a race that included 121 runners.<\/p>\n \u201cGrace had a great race and ended up beating some runners who had beaten her at regionals,\u201d Archer said. \u201cI am proud of the grown that all of our runners made this season, and I\u2019m looking forward to next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hernandez leads boys; Manning places 22nd in talented field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770,5884,5774,5773,5792],"tags":[36,29,346,345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","category-montezuma-cortez-high-school","category-newsletter-high-school-sports","category-sports-high-school-sports","category-volleyball","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-sports","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64597","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=64597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91989,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64597\/revisions\/91989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64597"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}