Taking on Colorado Mountain College’s trail system Saturday morning in Leadville, Bayfield’s Abigail Robertson placed an impressive sixth at Lake County High School’s 2025 Panther Invitational by clocking 24 minutes, 5.2 seconds to lead the Wolverines.
Bayfield’s Kamala Smith was 55th in 30:20.9, Ashlynn Bravo took 57th in 30:28.5, Bridgette Ireland ended up 63rd in 30:59.7, and the Wolverines girls cross country team as a whole totaled an adjusted score-4 121 points and placed sixth.
Paced by third-place Chloe King (23:12.4), meet-hosting LCHS tallied 30 points and placed first, with individual champ Mya McMillon (22:34.2) and Lakewood Green Mountain (40 points) snagging second.
In the boys race, BHS’ Porter Sutherlin clocked a ninth-place 21:05.2, helping the Wolverines finish eighth (95 points) overall. Wolverines’ Parker Perkerewicz (23:39.2) and Ryan Kurtz (23:40.5) finished 33rd and 34th, and Carter Lamb (23:55.0) was 36th.
Powered by the 1-2 finish of Mads Kreuzer (19:50.0) and Cruz Matta (20:02.0), Del Norte won the team title with a 28-point low. Denver North ended up second with 38 points.
Next on the schedule for Bayfield will be the historic Joe I. Vigil Open, hosted by Adams State University on Saturday at Cattails Golf Course in Alamosa. The meet’s high-school girls race is scheduled to start at 9:40 a.m., and the high-school boys at 10:15.
Making his 2025 debut after not competing Aug. 23, with his teammates at 2A Dolores’ Boggy Draw Bear Chase, Ignacio senior Trace Crane not only paced the Bobcats in the top division of a supersized meet not even a week later, but managed a top-100 result.
Clocking a time of 18 minutes, 24.8 seconds, Crane ended up 93rd overall in the varsity boys race at 5A Arapahoe’s Warrior Invitational, held Friday evening in Centennial.
Hampered by a nasty side cramp at the season-opening Chase, junior Thunder Windy Boy was more or less back to his regular self and crossed the finish line in a 139th-place 19:29.9.
Heading up the varsity boys division were Coronado High School teammates Oliver Horton and Xzavier Campos. Horton, a junior, completed the deKoevend Park course in a blistering 14:47.8 and the senior Campos crossed the finish line in 15:23.5.
Ignacio will next compete on Saturday in Alamosa at the Joe I. Vigil Open.
