October 15, 2024

Tigerhawks finish second at Montezuma

Colfax-Mingo harriers get early look at SICL course

By Troy Hyde
Ashlynn Hosbond

Colfax-Mingo freshman Ashlynn Hosbond finished fourth to lead the Tigerhawks at the Blue Springs Shooting Range on Thursday. Colfax-Mingo took second in both varsity divisions. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

SEARSBORO — The Colfax-Mingo cross country teams ran on the South Iowa Cedar League course and faced a handful of conference opponents during the Montezuma Invitational on Thursday.

The Tigerhawks came home with their best combined finish of the season as both the girls and boys were second at Blue Springs Shooting Complex.

Class 1A No. 5 English Valleys won the girls’ title with 19 points, but Colfax-Mingo (56) edged the host Bravettes (57) by a single point in the three-team field.

On the boys’ side, 3A South Tama County won the title with 56 points, but second went to the Tigerhawks on a tiebreaker.

Mario Rodriguez

Colfax-Mingo's Mario Rodriguez

Colfax-Mingo and GMG both scored 63 points, but only the Tigerhawks had a sixth runner to determine the tiebreaker.

The rest of the field featured Belle Plaine (88), HLV (102) and Montezuma (103).

BGM and Sigourney had incomplete teams on both sides. South Tama, HLV and Belle Plaine were incomplete for the girls and Keota and English Valleys had incomplete boys squads.

The top Tigerhawk finisher was Ashlynn Hosbond, who placed fourth in the girls’ 5K race with a time of 21 minutes, 36.1 seconds.

Shae Wilkins (23:07.8) was 12th, Mallory Sipma (24:31.3) took 14th and Laila Kwaskiewicz (27:51.3) finished 23rd. Ava Van Maaren (30:44.7) was the final scoring runner in 32nd.

Laila Kwaskiewicz

Colfax-Mingo's Laila Kwaskiewicz

Anna Luers of English Valleys won the girls’ race in 19:58.2. Sigourney’s Ellie Yates was the runner-up in 21:17.7. The Savages put three runners in the top six but had only four total.

Sullivan Wilkins led the C-M boys in eighth with a time of 18:11.3.

The Tigerhawks then grabbed four straight spots from 18th to 21st with Josue Rodriguez (19:42.2), Mario Rodriguez (19:44.1), Owen Ament (19:49.2) and Harrison Rhone (19:52.4).

Tony Buenrostro (23:01.4), Ryan Moore (23:33.1), Nathan Endersbe (25:32.6) and Jeremiah Wright (26:05.7) were non-scoring runners in 42nd, 44th, 50th and 51st, respectively.

Class 1A No. 2 Gage Heyne of English Valleys won the boys’ race in 16:00.8 and 3A No. 25 Barrett Jesina was the runner-up in 16:44.

Harrison Rhone

Harrison Rhone