The Durango High School girls cross-country team finished third in the team race Saturday at the Class 4A state championships in Colorado Springs.
Niwot had five runners finish in the top-seven to run away with the team title with 20 points. Battle Mountain finished second with 138, followed by Durango with 143 and Air Academy in fourth with 170.
For the Durango boys, senior Land Lambert led the team with a sixth-place finish in 15 minutes, 55 seconds. The DHS boys finished 11th in the team race with 282 points. Cheyenne Mountain claimed the team title with 26 points, followed by Niwot (63) and Battle Mountain (136) in third.
Seniors Angela McManus and Abby Fehr led the DHS girls. McManus placed 25th in 20:07 and Fehr finished 26th in 20:12.
Freshman Sofia Voss (30th, 20:28), junior Nina Quayle (40th, 20:43) and freshman Dea Ilg (49th, 20:54) rounded out Durango’s team score while freshman Brynn Aggeler (64th, 21:10) and junior Willow Lott (96th, 22:06) also ran for the Demons.
Senior Damian Frausto was the second Durango boy to finish, placing 18th in 16:27. Sophomores Nathaniel Ellis finished 81st in 18:02, Charlie Dillman placed 85th in 18:06 and Will McFarlene finished 136th in 19:16 to score for DHS. Senior Thomas Pope (148th, 19:57) and Micah Zastrocky (155th, 21:25) also competed at the state meet for Durango.
Niwot’s Zane Bergen (15:17) defended his individual title in the boys 4A race while the team’s Eva Klingbeil (17:58) claimed the girls’ title.
In the 2A boys race, Ignacio junior Eppie Quintana ran the course at the Norris Penrose Events Center in 18:59 to finish 56th out of 133 runners.
The Bayfield Wolverines football team finished its regular season by beating Pagosa Springs, 28-6, on Friday at BHS.
The win was Bayfield’s seventh consecutive after losing its opener and helped the Wolverines go a perfect 4-0 in the 2A Southwest League.
BHS will now wait to see where it gets seeded for the 2A state playoff tournament, which will begin next week.
The Fort Lewis College football team dropped to 0-9 overall on Saturday with a 73-0 loss against Colorado State University Pueblo at FLC.
After the Skyhawks held on the Thunderwolves’ first possession, and forced a field-goal try to miss wide, CSU-Pueblo scored on its next six offensive possessions and returned an interception for another score to take a 53-0 lead into halftime.
FLC was able to move the ball in the game, but it wasn’t able to reach to reach the end zone.
