The Lowry High School cross country team took part in the Division I-A Northern Regional Championships at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno.
The Lady Bucks finished seventh as a team with 203 points and the boys were eighth with 180.
However, Hayden Jeppsen qualified for the Buckaroo boys as an individual, placing 18th overall in a time of 18 minutes, 53 seconds. He was fourth of the five individuals that advanced to the state meet.
"It was good that we got Hayden in there," said LHS coach Kathy Norcutt. It wasn't a personal best, but he ran really hard to get in there. His goal at the start of the season was to make it to state. Watching times from other runners during the season, I thought he had a pretty good chance of making it. The day pretty much played out like I thought it would.
On the boys side, Spring Creek won the team title with 36 points and Elko was second at 58. South Tahoe was the last team to qualify, finishing third with 79 points. Dayton (129) and Truckee (137) rounded out the top five.
Elko's Kyler Simpkins won the individual title with a time of 17:28. Truckee's Noah Oberriter was second at 17:32 and Elko's Timothy Rose (17:45) and Spring Creek's Cole Campbell(18:11) were third and fourth, respectively.
Sophomore Jonathan Madrid finished 32nd for the Buckaroos, in a time of 19:49, while fellow sophomore Devin Dowd was 38th at 20:23. Devin Morris finished 45th with a time of 21:00 and Ethan Andrews was 47th n a time of 21:06.
Christopher Kearns placed 49th at 21:26 and Chance McAllister finished 50th at 21:40.
"Devin (Dowd) had a fabulous race and was a surprise to me, which was nice to see," Norcutt said. Jonathan had a great race too. It was good to see the young kids run like they did."
On the girls side, Truckee won the team title with 38 points and Spring Creek was second at 39. Elko was a distant third with 72 points to advance to state. South Tahoe (90) and Fernley (124) rounded out the top five.
Truckee seniors Skyler Flora and Gabrielle Rinnie swept the top two individual spots, with times of 19:30 and 20:08 respectively. Spring Creek's Julia Mahlke (20:13) and South Tahoe's Ally Sullivan (20:23) were third and fourth, respectively, and Dayton's Sydney Strickler (20:28) was fifth.
Sophomore Charice Brown led the Lady Bucks with a 29th-place finish in a time of 23:111, while freshman teammate Emily Jock was 36th at 24:15. Shannon Munk was the next Lowry finisher in 46th with a time of 26:08, while Haley Weber was 47th in a time of 26:17. Alexandria Ziemer (27:04) and Camryn Maher (30:47) were 50th and 51st, respectively.
"Charice ran a personal best and Emily was right there with her," Norcutt said. "It was a good race for those two. Shannon had a really good race, one of her best of the year."
The Division I-A State Championships take place Saturday at Sunset Park in Las Vegas.
"We have never been there, so I don't know what type of course to expect," Norcutt said. "It is suppose to be hot down there, so we will see how it goes."[[In-content Ad]]
