Dimond sweeps East
The cross-country season opened Saturday with a dramatic finish-line duel at Kincaid Park's Little Campbell Lake, where East's Margeaux Bailey beat Dimond's Kylie Judd by seven-tenths of a second to win the girls race.
Bailey finished the 3.5-kilometer race in 15 minutes, 19.1 seconds. Judd clocked 15:19.8.
Dimond's Jack Divelbiss topped the boys race in 12:52.6, 13 seconds ahead of teammate Niko Latva-Kiskola.
Dimond swept the team titles.
Boys
Dimond 22, East 37
1) Jack Divelbiss (D) 12:52.6; 2) Niko Latva-Kiskola (D) 13:05.9; 3) Zephan Ozturgut (E) 13:09.5; 4) Aden Haywood (E) 13:19.9; 5) Kyler Mack (D) 13:37.9; 6) Joe Divelbiss (D) 13:47.6; 7) Beck Haywood (E) 13:52.2; 8) Alek Heil (D) 13:52.4; 9) Alex Gill (D) 13:55.9; 10) Brian Sweeney (D) 13:56.2; 11) Sean Swalling (D) 14:12.1; 12) Lito Talbert (D) 14:33.7; 13) William Lemmons (D) 14:46.4; 14) Jaylon Miller (E) 15:00.4; 15) Joey Pabon (E) 15:00.6; 16) Dru Powelson (D) 15:05.9; 17) Roos Helgesen-Thom (D) 15:08.1; 18) Erik Brainerd (E) 15:18.8; 19) Orion Roach (E) 15:27.1; 20) Bradley Cross (D) 15:34.0; 21) Jimmy Campbell (D) 15:39.0; 22) Reagan Cox (E) 15:43.1; 23) Jason Wright (D) 15:46.9; 24) Andrew McNab (E) 16:07.2; 25) Josh Gates (E) 16:09.2; 26) Ian Pediangco (E) 16:14.3; 27) Mark Biering (E) 16:14.6; 28) Alden Ahern (D) 16:28.8; 29) Ben Swiderski (D)16:31.0; 30) Keegan Caufield (D) 17:36.9; 31) Julian Medina (D) 17:40.4; 32) Hayden Hanson (D) 19:15.2; 33) Bryce Davis (D) 19:51.7; 34) Caleb Bell (E) 24:19.4.
Girls
Dimond 23, East 38
1) Margeaux Bailey (E) 15:19.1; 2) Kylie Judd (D) 15:19.8; 3) Erica Heil (D) 15:55.0; 4) Mary Burr (E) 16:07.3; 5) Liesel Von Imhof (D) 16:25.6; 6) Ali Keller (D) 16:44.6; 7) Briannah Pugh (D) 16:46.0; 8) Allie Epke (D) 17:00.6; 9) Heather Jensen (D) 18:27.9; 10) Shelby Kelliher (D) 20:00.0; 11) Haley Carney (D) 20:00.5; 12) Larissa Hensch (D) 20:23.8; 13) Sabrina Coombs (E) 21:11.7; 14) Mae Cawyer (E) 22:15.3; 15) Aislinn Akin (D) 22:27.2; 16) Raimey Drew (D) 24:48.4; 17) Emily Ellis (E) 25:45.7.
Chugiak's Jordan, Bartlett's boy triumph
Ty Jordan of Chugiak, the reigning Cook Inlet Conference boys champion, opened the cross-country season with a win Saturday.
Jordan took the 3-kilometer race at Beach Lake in 9 minutes, 56.9 seconds. Teammate Emma Nelson won the girls race in 12:06.6
Chugiak's girls won the team competition against Bartlett, which didn't field a full team.
The Bartlett boys, led by runner-up Brian Durr, beat Chugiak 24-31 by placing five runners in the top seven.
Boys
Bartlett 24, Chugiak 31
1) Ty Jordan (C) 09:56.9; 2) Brian Durr (B) 10:24.8; 3) Roan Hall (C) 10:25.8; 4) Issac Larson (B) 10:26.2; 5) Declan Reid (B) 11:17.1; 6) Jacob Obrigewitch (B) 11:20.8; 7) Ryan Reid (B) 11:34.2; 8) Ryan Dearborn (C) 11:43.7; 9) Miles Dennis (C) 12:14.8; 10) James Anderson (C) 12:15.2; 11) Ethan Zaugg (C) 12:24.1; 12) Jacob Kosinski (C) 12:32.8; 13) Cameron Westlake (B) 12:59.7; 14) Brandon Lafferty (C) 13:17.5; 15) Mykola Green (C) 13:28.3; 16) Cable Mercer (C) 13:28.7; 17) Oliver Zaugg (C) 13:34.9; 18) Tanner Holta (B) 13:42.4; 19) Evan Bruso (B) 13:59.4; 20) Greyson Culbert (C) 14:37.2; 21) Brian Jensen (C) 14:39.7; 22) Nicholas Cole (C) 15:35.8; 23) Michael Balega (C) 15:44.5; 24) Tyler Reierson (B) 17:12.9; 25) Cameron Pogue (B) 20:16.6.
Girls
1) Emma Nelson (C) 12:06.6; 2) Emma Sees (C) 12:15.0; 3) Hannah Booher (C) 12:26.4; 4) KayLee Manwaring (C) 12:39.0; 5) Brynn Krochoski (C) 12:52.9; 6) Claire Cook (C) 13:03.4; 7) Sara Hartke (C) 13:30.3; 8) Lauren Devine (C) 13:32.1; 9) Emma Blei (C) 13:45.1; 10) Oliva Mueller (C) 14:04.2; 11) Grace Lilly (B) 14:05.9; 12) Kinley Sanders (C) 14:22.8; 13) Samantha Cole (C) 14:32.5; 14) Stacy Sterling (C) 15:12.5; 15) Gracie Dunn (C) 15:24.8; 16) Cheyenne Palmer (C) 18:25.2.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the distances of the races. The Dimond-East race was 3.5 kilometers and the Chugiak-Bartlett race was 3 kilometers..