For the week of September 17 - 23, 2003

Mavericks fastest on Gun Club course

40 locals in 330-runner field

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Meridian’s Tracy Harris, a king of Idaho cross-country running, came to Sun Valley and gave his blessing to the 3.1-mile course that winds through the foothills of the Sun Valley Gun Club.

The fastest Wood River girl in last Thursday’s Wood River Invitational at Sun Valley Gun Club was freshman Tess Dahlgren (24:01) in 18th place. Express photo by David N. Seelig

Harris said he liked the course used for the annual Wood River Invitational prep cross-country meet, which attracted 330 runners to the Gun Club trails last Wednesday.

So did the Mountain View Mavericks, a first-year high school in Meridian that Harris is coaching—after Harris led the cross-town Meridian Warrior girls to four consecutive Idaho 5A state championships from 1999-2002.

At Sun Valley, 5A Mountain View (40 points) went 1-2-3 in the 71-runner boys’ varsity race and captured the day’s main team event by 11 points over perennial Idaho running power Vallivue of Caldwell (51), a 4A school.

Mountain View’s Sean Boone, ninth in the Idaho 5A state boys’ race last fall while running for Meridian, set a blistering pace and won by 20 seconds in 17:34 over Maverick runner-up Logan Katseanes (17:54).

The host Wood River High School Wolverine boys coached by James Foster and Joel Zellers did extremely well by placing in fourth place of eight teams with 90 points. Medaling was 10th-place Alex Hamlin (18:33).

Earning a medal in the Wood River Invitational 3.1-mile race on the Sun Valley Gun Club trails was 10th-place Alex Hamlin (18:33) of Wood River. Express photo by David N. Seelig

Vallivue took a measure of satisfaction by winning the 100-runner girls’ varsity/junior varsity race in a 37-39 squeaker over Mountain View. That’s because Vallivue’s girls placed 1-2-3 led by senior Taryn Trapp (21:01), eighth in last year’s 4A state girls’ footrace.

Top Wood River girl, three minutes behind, was freshman Tess Dahlgren (24:01) in 18th. The Wolverine girls were sixth of eight teams in the standings.

Mountain View’s Dan Foster (19:42) won the 75-runner boys’ JV race and Wood River’s Conor Davis (20:16) was close behind in sixth.

There were 40 local runners in all—35 from Wood River and five from The Community School.

Next: The Kimberly Invitational Thursday, Sept. 18 at Magic Mountain Ski Area south of Twin Falls starting at 4:30 p.m. Results from Sun Valley Gun Club follow, all Wood River runners unless otherwise specified:

Varsity boys: 1—Sean Boone (Mt. View) 17:34. 2—Logan Katseanes (Mt. View) 17:54. 3—Brian Harris (Mt. View) 18:01. 4—Darin Anderson (Vallivue) 18:02. 5—Michel Galvin (Vallivue) 18:11.

10—Alex Hamlin 18:33. 13—Taylor Sundali 18:53. 17—Jack Harris 18:56. 25—David Vanderpool 19:29. 31—Lucas Pletcher 20:14. 43—Dawson Paschall 21:09. 44—Chris Leblanc 21:10 (71 runners).

Boys’ varsity team: 1—Mountain View 40. 2—Vallivue 51. 3—Jerome 88. 4—Wood River 90. 5—Gooding 94. 6—Declo 146. 7—Salmon 205. 8—Kimberly 212.

Varsity/JV girls: 1—Taryn Trapp (Vallivue) 21:01. 2—Lindsey Miller (Vallivue) 21:32. 3—Meagan Hinkle (Vallivue) 21:56. 4—Kayla Smith (Salmon) 22:09. 5—Abby Zimney (Mt. View) 22:17.

18—Tess Dahlgren 24:01. 30—Lindsay Niedrich 25:04. 36—Rachael Richards 25:33. 49—Maddie Thies 26:15. 51—Jennifer Spinelli 26:29. 60—Jenni Borda 26:59. 74—Amanda Moulton 29:11. 76—Nini Casser 29:23. 80—Isabelle Cannell (CommSchool) 29:48. 81—Dawn Bird 29:50. 83—Rachel Pace 30:11. 89—Lauren Phillips 31:09. 92—Georgia Thies 31:54. 93—Amy Loudenslager 32:08. 95—Melissa Fischman 32:37 (100 runners).

Girls varsity/JV team: 1—Vallivue 37. 2—Mountain View 39. 3—Jerome 74. 4—Ririe 92. 5—Salmon 143. 6—Wood River 162. 7—Gooding and Valley 191.

Junior varsity boys: 1—Dan Foster (Mt. View) 19:42. 6—Conor Davis 20:16. 18—David Kunz 21:34. 19—Robbie Hamlin 21:38. 27—Joseph Zeman 21:57. 30—Kyle Niedrich 22:13. 34—Dale Reese 22:33. 36—Cooper Lee 22:40. 44—Josh Flade 23:17. 45—Nick Purdy 23:21. 51—Cole Wells 23:47. 52—Kurtis Fieguth and Bryce Moulton 23:48. 65—David Risci 26:25. 69—Brandon Nelson (CommSchool) 27:43. 71—Josh Thornton 28:10. 73—Nick Stevenson (CommSchool) 31:03. 74—Bobby Pidgeon (CommSchool) 31:38. 75—Chandler Ellis (CommSchool) 42:12 (75 runners).

Boys’ JV team: 1—Vallivue 43. 2—Jerome 46. 3—Mountain View 54. 4—Wood River 91. 5—Gooding 148.

 

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