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Top-Ranked Summit OR Girls Earn A Chance To Defend NXN Title

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DyeStat.com   Nov 17th 2019, 5:23am
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Thorvaldson, Holland Repeat at NXR Northwest; Kamiakin Boys, Summit Girls as Well

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor 

BOISE – The team that goes by Storm Over Bend this weekend might as well be Storm Over the Northwest, or Storm Over the Nation. 

The girls from Summit OR scored 59 points to officially earn their way back to Nike Cross Nationals, where they enjoyed a historic win last year. 

INTERVIEWS | RESULTS

Fiona Max (17:05.8), Teaghan Knox (17:50.1), Jasper Fievet (18:15.8), Izzy Max (18:27.3) and Barrett Justema (18:28) outmatched every other team in the seven-state Northwest region on a summer-like day at Eagle Island State Park.

"It feels great. It feels a little nostalgic, but also exciting because I feel there's a lot of opportunity around the corner and we're ready to harness it," Izzy Max said. 

The Storm's first split at 1K was 84 points and the score kept getting lower and lower. 

"One of the nice things is that we've managed to keep the pressure off by just taking one day at a time," Fiona Max said. "That was our same goal today."

North Central (North Spokane) WA was in fourth place with 800 meters left but jumped Lincoln OR (Redbirds) and Jesuit OR (Stumptown XC) to grab the second auto qualifying spot with 95 points. 

On the outside looking in, for now, are third-place finisher Jesuit, which scored 105 points and Lincoln, which was fourth with 128. 

All four of the top teams had a runner in the top six overall. 

But everyone was chasing Rawlins WY junior Sydney Thorvaldson, who showed that she might have what it takes to make the podium at Nike Cross Nationals with a course-record time of 16:50.6. She destroyed the previous record, held by Bozeman's Camila Noe, by 23 seconds. It is believed to be the first sub-17 5K for a high school girl on Idaho soil, period. 

Thorvaldson pressed to a 5:01.3 first mile and built a nine-second lead on Fiona Max and freshman Kate Peters of Lincoln. 

"Bat out of hell," Max said of Thorvaldson. "She's only been progressing as an athlete and she's an amazing runner."

Thorvaldson said she was more concerned with the win than the time. 

"I've been running great times and improving so much . I knew if I ran my race I could definitely come across the finish line top-five and may run faster than last year and beat the record, but I definitely didn't think sub-17," she said. 

The boys race went out just 10 seconds faster than Thorvaldson as a big group stayed together past 2,000 meters. 

Near the 2-mile mark, defending champion E.J. Holland applied a surge of pace to get past Wil Smith of Lewis and Clark WA and built an advantage that he took to the finish line. Holland finished in a meet-record time of 15:02.9. Nathan Green, of Borah ID, was 10.4 seconds back for second place. 

Holland's aim all along was to win the race and advance to nationals, where he hopes to vie for the individual title.

"Right before the 2-mile mark, that's where I went last year," he said. "So why change something that's not broken?"

There was a fair bit of drama around the outcome of the boys team championship. The final posted scores (through 4.2K) showed Franklin OR (Mt. Tabor TC) in the lead. Jesuit's score was missing. Kamiakin WA (Braves Soul) was third.

But when the announcement was finally made, it was Kamiakin reclaiming the title with 109 points.

Jesuit bounced back from a difficult outing at the Oregon state meet to gain the second auto berth with 135 points. Franklin's usual No. 3 or 4 runner, Charlie North, was spiked and lost a shoe inside the first half-mile and had to stop and put it back on. He eventually caught up to the team's No. 5, but was well back of where he might have finished otherwise. With 176 points, Franklin finished two ahead of fourth-place Bozeman MT.



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Jalex
Doug, last paragraph is not quite accurate about Franklin dropping places: it appeared our #4 and #5 were dripping spots in results but that's because later the timers added in the 20+ runners that were missed at the later timing mats- all runners in that time range look like they dropped 20+ places.
Jalex
oops 'dropping spots'
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