Great Times Set At Bob Conley Invitational

The Grace and Soda Springs cross country teams once again shared the course at last week's meet in Pocatello.  The Bob Conley Invitational is run at the Portneuf Wellness Complex located on the east bench of Pocatello.  The course begins on the flat soccer fields before dropping down to the lake.  Once the runners reach the west end of the lake the course turns back and follows the perimeter of the complex past the amphitheater and back to the bottom soccer field.  The course has been the site of several district and state meets in the past and is one that local teams usually run each year.

As has been the theme for this season several local runners had great performances.  The boys teams of Soda and Grace are still behind some of their district opponents but individually they made some great strides.  The Soda Springs boys team finished twelfth out of twenty-five teams.  West Side edged out the Cardinals taking eleventh and Malad led the district teams placing sixth.  There were one hundred and eighty participants in the varsity boys race.  Soda’s top placer was Landon Moldenhauer who placed twenty-fifth.  Ironically Landon was the only runner out of Soda’s top five who did not run a season PR in the race.  Landon missed the marked improvement by less than half a second while Degan Stoor, Jonathan Beutler, Dre Lloyd, and Jaxson Horsley all ran their fastest times this season.  

Adrian Mejia was the top Grizzly runner as he ran a PR time and broke the seventeen minute mark finishing fourteenth in the varsity boys race.  Brock Johnson, Colt Coleman, Laexin VanGass, Cutler Andersen, and Scottie Heer all ran season best times for Grace as well.  As a team Grace finished in fourteenth place with their district rival Rockland finishing ahead of them in seventh place.

The Girls teams for each school did very well with Grace finishing in fourth place and the Cardinals finishing in an impressive second place.  Both girls teams finished well above any of their district competitors.

Lizzie Beutler, India Galloway, and Ellie Wood all finished in the top twenty of competitors.  Beutler, Galloway, and Wood along with Rebekah Evans, Mollie Renfroe, and Gracie Moldenhauer all ran season best times for the Lady Cardinals.

The Lady Grizzlies were led by the Coleman sisters.  Cally Coleman had the top time of all of the local runners finishing in third place individually.  All six runners from Grace ran season bests.  Those runners were Cally Coleman, Lily Coleman, Kallie Stoddard, Lilly Gilbert, Breanna Heer and Hayden Ball.

The Cardinals are taking this week off for some rest and relaxation while the Grizzlies are headed to Firth on Thursday for the Cougar Invitational.