Grizzlies Finish Regular Season At Firth

The Grace Grizzly cross country teams took in their last race of the regular season last week and will now prepare to make a run at some district titles next week.  The Grizzly boys and girls teams wrapped up the season at the Firth Invitational.  The course is essentially a two lap race that encompasses the football, baseball and softball fields with varying types of surfaces.  There are a few small hills on the course that eventually ends on the high school track for the final three hundred meters.  The day was unseasonably warm adding an extra challenge to the runners.  The race was smaller than some of the bigger well known races ran by the Grizzlies this season but still featured some stiff competition.  Fifteen boys teams competed in the varsity race with just over one hundred individual runners.  The Grizzly boys team took tenth place but was only bested by one 3A school and finished highest amongst all 1A and 2A schools.  The Grizzly men only entered five runners in the race with Adrian Mejia once again finishing as the fastest Grace team member.  Mejia placed 24th with a time of 17:40.4.  The other Grizzly members were Brock Johnson (40) 18:15.2, Colt Coleman (50) 18:33.4, Jonah Wilkerson (66) 19:06.5 and Cutler Andersen (90) 21:32.8

The Lady Grizzlies placed very well finishing fourth as a team with 134pts.  They were only beaten by three 4A schools who were Sugar-Salem 82pts, Snake River 108pts, and just edging the Grizzlies was Teton with 133pts.  Individually the Coleman sisters finished highest for the Grizzlies who had seven girls entered in the race.  Oldest sister Cally Coleman placed best in 5th place with a time of 20:12.4.  Lily Coleman led the rest of the Lady Grizzlies with her placing of 18th with a time of 21:00.2.  The rest of the Lady Grizzlies were as follows, Kallie Stoddard (27) 21:44.3, Lilly Gilbert (32) 21:58.5, Breanna Heer (53) 23:12.6, Shaston Lloyd (79) 25:07.1, and Hayden Ball (87) 25:56.9.

The Grizzlies will be out of action this week before taking on the course at Kelly Park for the district championship races on Thursday the 24th.