{"id":74175,"date":"2019-09-02T01:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-cross-country-teams-compete-in-lloyds-lake-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:00:24","slug":"local-cross-country-teams-compete-in-lloyds-lake-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-cross-country-teams-compete-in-lloyds-lake-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Local cross-country teams compete in Lloyd\u2019s Lake Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0586c19a-f581-4f36-947c-20d7baa0f2e3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1826\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Facing their toughest competition in the young 2019 season, Montezuma-Cortez High School, Mancos High School, and Dolores High School cross-country teams performed well in the Lloyd\u2019s Lake Classic in Monticello.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Grace Manning paces local girls<\/div>\n<p>Leading the way among local finishers was Mancos junior Grace Manning, who finished sixth overall (24:03.30) in a field that featured 43 runners in the girls\u2019 varsity division. Manning\u2019s teammates, Hakayla Snow and Kylie Guiles, placed 25th (26:10.60) and 37th (28:58.80), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>While the Mancos girls did not have enough runners to qualify for the team standings, M-CHS entered five varsity runners in the competition and finished fourth overall behind San Juan High School, Grand County High School and Grand Junction Central High School.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers were paced by Emalie Myers, who placed 13th (24:03.30) and Marina Bradley, who finished 23rd (25:58.30). Other finishers for M-CHS included Trinity Meyers, at 26th (26:22.30), Kalea Hunt at 34th (27:41.20), and Cassandra McCully, at 35th place (27:52.50).<\/p>\n<p>Junior Anaya Martinez, the lone representative for the Dolores girls, finished 20th (27:52.50).<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">John Whyte makes impression in season debut<\/div>\n<p>Pacing the local males who competed in the boys varsity division was M-CHS sophomore John Whyte, who looked strong throughout his first prep race of the season and finished seventh (16:58.20).<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS also enjoyed solid finishes from Jadon Elliott and Giovanni Carta, who crossed the line in 51st (21:42.30) and 52nd (21:46.80), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos boys were led by Edgar Hernandez, who followed up his top finish in Dolores last weekend with a 13th-place finish in Monticello (17:41.40). Connor Sehnert crossed the line 25th (18:56.20); John Lund, 29th (19:01.10); and Vanfasai Jaijong, 55th for Mancos (22:35.20).<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brafford, the lone representative for Dolores, placed 42nd (20:28.60).<\/p>\n<p>Grand Junction Central finished first in the team standings in the varsity boys meet, and Grand County finished second. M-CHS, Mancos, and Dolores did not enter five runners in the boys varsity race and thus, did not qualify for the team standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mancos\u2019 Grace Manning and M-CHS\u2019 John Whyte finish in top 10 in Monticello<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5933,6122,5770,5775,5884,5774,5924],"tags":[3382,1206,37,36,29,2343],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-country","category-dolores-county-high-school","category-high-school-sports","category-mancos-high-school","category-montezuma-cortez-high-school","category-newsletter-high-school-sports","category-sports-group","tag-cross-country","tag-dolores-county-high-school","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-sports-group"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74175","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=74175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92540,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74175\/revisions\/92540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74175"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}