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It must\u2019ve been the hair.<\/p>\n
Celebrating their home cross-country meet with face paint, temporary tattoos and their hair painted screaming orange, Montezuma-Cortez senior Josh Ramos and junior Caisey Duran each won their respective races on Saturday at the Ancient Trails Cross-Country Invitational.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s special for us,\u201d said M-CHS head coach Paul Koops. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a really wonderful group of kids this year. They\u2019re really committed to it. And for us to take first for both boys and girls is a great tribute to how hard they\u2019re working and how much it means to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramos was coming off a second-place finish at the John Thornton Invitation in Blanding on Wednesday. And he pulled away from the pack on Saturday to win the varsity boys race in 18:26.18.<\/p>\n
\u201cHome meet you\u2019ve always got to go all out,\u201d Ramos said. \u201cEvery race is different, but you feel a sense of ownership to this place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duran, who finished fourth at the John Thornton Invitational, won the girls race in 22:58.18.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d she said of her win. \u201cI can\u2019t even explain how good it felt.\u201d<\/p>\n
A newcomer to the M-CHS cross-country program, it was just Duran\u2019s fifth race of her career, and she\u2019s coming on strong as the regular season winds down.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery week she\u2019s getting smarter about racing and she\u2019s getting faster in her races,\u201d said Koops. \u201cAnd her enthusiasm and competitive spirit \u2013 I haven\u2019t seen the bottom of it yet \u2013 it\u2019s really wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lady Panthers finished in second place in the team standings and the Mancos Lady Blue Jays finished fifth.<\/p>\n
Other top-ten finishing area girls were M-CHS senior Sam Bagge (23:42.51), who ran a season-best time to finish in fifth, and Mancos senior Emma Most (24:20.88), who placed eighth.<\/p>\n
Mancos finished second in the boys team standings and M-CHS finished third.<\/p>\n
Other top-ten finishers were Mancos sophomore Teslin Stecher (18:48.30) in second place, Mancos junior Jake McKie (18:57.65) finished fifth, and M-CHS junior Reid Littlefield (18:59.43) took sixth.<\/p>\n
RESULTS<\/em><\/p>\n RESULTS<\/em>1st \u2013 Josh Ramos (M-CHS), 18:26.18<\/em>2nd \u2013 Teslin Stecher (MANCOS), 18:48.30<\/em>5th \u2013 Jake McKie (MANCOS), 18:57.65<\/em>6th \u2013 Reid Littlefield (M-CHS), 18:59.43<\/em>11th- Ryoya Shima (MANCOS), 19:44.13<\/em>13th \u2013 Sonny Boren (M-CHS), 19:51.53<\/em>16th \u2013 Phillip Hufman (DOLORES), 20:14.45<\/em>25th \u2013 Zane Wilson (MANCOS), 21:15.33<\/em>27th \u2013 Ben Castillo-Calvillo (M-CHS), 21:25.92<\/em>30th \u2013 Alex Fleitz (MANCOS), 22:03.19<\/em>33rd \u2013 Will Brown (M-CHS), 22:20.64<\/em>34th \u2013 Mike Vanik (M-CHS), 22:20.99<\/em>38th \u2013 Marcus Amrine (M-CHS), 23:08.78<\/em>41st \u2013 Blair Rice (M-CHS), 23:11.45<\/em>43rd \u2013 Alex Olson (DOLORES), 23:26.93<\/em>47th \u2013 Colt Spencer (MANCOS), 24:30.48<\/em>48th \u2013 Noah Peterson (M-CHS), 24:41.51<\/em>53rd \u2013 Griff Huver (MANCOS), 27:46.18<\/em>56th \u2013 David Vanik (M-CHS), 28:20.61<\/em><\/p>\n RESULTS<\/em>1st \u2013 Josh Ramos (M-CHS), 18:26.18<\/em>2nd \u2013 Teslin Stecher (MANCOS), 18:48.30<\/em>5th \u2013 Jake McKie (MANCOS), 18:57.65<\/em>6th \u2013 Reid Littlefield (M-CHS), 18:59.43<\/em>11th- Ryoya Shima (MANCOS), 19:44.13<\/em>13th \u2013 Sonny Boren (M-CHS), 19:51.53<\/em>16th \u2013 Phillip Hufman (DOLORES), 20:14.45<\/em>25th \u2013 Zane Wilson (MANCOS), 21:15.33<\/em>27th \u2013 Ben Castillo-Calvillo (M-CHS), 21:25.92<\/em>30th \u2013 Alex Fleitz (MANCOS), 22:03.19<\/em>33rd \u2013 Will Brown (M-CHS), 22:20.64<\/em>34th \u2013 Mike Vanik (M-CHS), 22:20.99<\/em>38th \u2013 Marcus Amrine (M-CHS), 23:08.78<\/em>41st \u2013 Blair Rice (M-CHS), 23:11.45<\/em>43rd \u2013 Alex Olson (DOLORES), 23:26.93<\/em>47th \u2013 Colt Spencer (MANCOS), 24:30.48<\/em>48th \u2013 Noah Peterson (M-CHS), 24:41.51<\/em>53rd \u2013 Griff Huver (MANCOS), 27:46.18<\/em>56th \u2013 David Vanik (M-CHS), 28:20.61<\/em>1st \u2013 Caisey Duran (M-CHS), 22:58.18<\/em>5th \u2013 Sam Bagge (M-CHS), 23:42.51<\/em>8th \u2013 Emma Most (MANCOS), 24:20.88<\/em>12th \u2013 Emma Thissen (M-CHS), 25:12.59<\/em>20th \u2013 Kaylee Rose (MANCOS), 25:31.65<\/em>21st \u2013 Regina Schuster (M-CHS), 25:31.96<\/em>31st \u2013 Jessalyn Bay-Voit (MANCOS), 26:25.27<\/em>33rd \u2013 Hannah Skinner (MANCOS), 26:51.47<\/em>38th \u2013 Olivia Coppinger (MANCOS), 27:32.80<\/em>39th \u2013 Hakayla Snow (MANCOS), 27:48.98<\/em>40th \u2013 Maggie Delaney (MANCOS), 28:11.56<\/em>41st \u2013 Mimi Archuleta (MANCOS), 28:24.76 <\/em>45th \u2013 Corinne Damore (M-CHS), 29:17.63<\/em>46th \u2013 Lynda LaPaz (M-CHS), 29:48.70<\/em>51st \u2013 Maya LaMunyon (M-CHS), 31:27.52<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" M-CHS girls and Mancos boys finish second in team standings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70192","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=70192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70192"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}