Girl Power At The Tiger/Grizz

Both the Soda Springs and Grace Cross Country teams traveled to Idaho Falls to run in the Tiger/Grizz Invitational.  Set at Freeman Park, the race is one of the premier races in Southeast Idaho.  Race organizers have split the participating schools into two separate categories based on school size.  Our local racers participated in the “B” races that take in schools from 1A up to 4A while the “A” races have 5A and 6A schools participate.

While I am not disparaging the local boy runners, the day belonged to the ladies as several Caribou County girls placed very well.  Out of the 143 middle school girls that raced, Soda's Anna Uskoski took the first place finish.  Her teammate Avery Winward came in at 14th place and helped the middle school girls team place fifth out of eleven teams.  Grace did not have enough girls to place as a team but Graci Woodland was the Grizzlies top finisher at 25th.

Neither school had a full JV girls team but Soda’s Mollie Renfroe finished in sixth place overall with Mylee White finishing just out of the top ten at thirteenth.  Grace did not have any jv runners entered in the race.

The varsity runners really shined for both schools.  Out of the sixteen teams in the race both Soda and Grace finished in the top five.  Grace came in fifth with 156 points and Soda Springs finished in second place with 85 points.  Of the six Soda girls and five Grace girls only two didn't finish in the top half of all runners.  Soda Springs finished with two runners in the top ten with Lizzie Beutler coming in at fifth and India Galloway finishing in eighth.  Grace’s Cally Coleman was the star of the race however as she finished first overall.

The boys varsity teams each had two runners finish in the top twenty-five.  Soda’s Landon Moldenhauer finished at fifteenth and Jonathan Beutler came in at twenty-fourth.  Grace had Adrian Mejia finish at an impressive seventh and Colt Coleman ended in twenty-second.  The Cardinal men finished in seventh as a team while Grace had one runner have to pull out of the race due to injury so they failed to get a team score.

Both schools will stay in the fifth district this week when they travel to Westside for the
Pirate Challenge.

Soda Girls

Lizzie Beutler (5) 20:41

India Galloway (8) 20:46

Ellie Wood (13) 21:21

Rebekah Evans (17) 21:38

Rosie Harris (44) 22:56

Gracie Moldenhauer (58) 

Soda Boys

Landon Moldenhauer (15) 18:06

Johnathan Beutler (24) 18:47

Dre Lloyd (38) 19:17

Jaxon Horsley (45) 19:28

Degan Stoor (51) 19:39

Kage Kirby (63) 20:13

Austin Housley (67) 20:19

Grace Girls

Cally Coleman (1) 20:01

Lily Coleman (32) 22:27

Kallie Stoddard (35) 22:48

Lilly Gilbert (38) 22:53

Breanna Heer (59) 23:45

Grace Boys

Adrian Mejia (7) 17:31

Colt Coleman (22) 18:38

Jonah Wilkerson (48) 19:38

Cutler Anderson (102) 22:20