The Lowry girls take off from the starting line.
When you think of cross country the first thing that doesn’t come to mind is a frost delay.
The Lowry Invitational this year at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course was ran on a Saturday this year.
The only problem was that Mother Nature showed her mean side, with temperatures plummeting.
Lowry's Mia Preciado runs up the seventh hole during the Lowry Invitational on Saturday in Winnemucca.
After a 30-minute frost delay, the two 3-1. Mile races took place.
Lowry High School sophomore Alyla Thomas set a personal best at 20 minutes, 3 seconds to win the race.
The time would have likely been quicker, but Thomas and other leaders of the girls race took a wrong turn for a short time.
Bishop Manogue’s Samantha Tolotti finished second at 20:27. She finished 10th in the Northern 5A Regional Championship last year.
Elko’s Allyson Ortiz (20:45), Avery Shotly (20:47) and Lilliana Hayes (20:51) rounded out the top five.
Senior Mia Preciado placed ninth with a personal-best time of 22:13 and teammate Mariah Ramos was 11th at 22:41.
Brooklyn Swensen (23:12) placed 14th and freshman Azure Sagers (23:19) was one spot back. Both times were personal bests.
Azure Sagers runs up the seventh hole during the Lowry Invitational on Saturday in Winnemucca.
Sophomores Natalia Cassinelli (24:00) and Adel Hall (25:34) rounded the Lowry finishers in 19th and 26th, respectively.
Elko had four of the top seven runners and won the team title with 34 points. Lowry was second at 42, followed by Damonte Ranch (71), Fernley (97) and Churchill County (104).
“The girls have come long ways,” said LHS coach Sergio Cabada. “Whatever you ask of them, they listen and do it. They have been working really hard. It’s amazing, a couple years ago we had just a couple girls in the entire program — now we have a chance to get to the state meet.”
The Lowry High School boys cross country team takes from the starting line at the Lowry Invitational on Saturday morning in Winnemucca.
Sophomore Cooper Hoagland paced the Lowry boys with a fifth-place finish in a time of 17:41, a personal best for him.
Freshman Anden Thomas placed 13th at 18:42, also a personal best.
Damonte Ranch saw three of the first four runners cross the finish line, led by Anthony Sharp at 16:11. Ethan Faber (16:54) and Matthew Siegrist (17:08) were third and fourth, respectively.
Fernley’s Joe Perkins was the runner-up in a time of 16:49.
Kolby Hoagland (20:24), Finn Baldwin (20:39) and Lennox Zebroski (20:52) were 22nd, 23rd and 25th, respectively. All of their times were personal bests as well.
Lowry's Anden Thomas (right) sprints to the finish line.
Damonte Ranch won the team title with 37 points and Elko (67) and Lowry (84) were second and third.
Lowry travels to Reno and Rancho San Rafael Park on Friday for the Northern 3A Regional Championships.
The girls race at 10:40 a.m. and the boys at 1:10 p.m.
The top four teams from the North and the top four teams from the South advance to the eight-team Class 3A state championship meet.
The top seven individuals from teams that did not qualify for the state meet in the Northern Region and the top seven individuals from teams that did not qualify for the state meet in the Southern Region advance to the Class 3A state meet.