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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
CANYON – Senior Sammy Fuentes finished third and led Clovis High’s boys to a third-place team finish in Saturday’s Canyon Invitational cross country meet.
Fuentes posted a time of 15 minutes, 40.53 seconds over the 5K course, finishing behind two Canyon runners – including winner Lathan Lewter (15:14.57).
Canyon cruised to team honors in a field of 13 full squads with 22 points, well ahead of Frenship (112) and the Cats (143), who edged Plainview by one point.
“We’re just working hard and trying to improve our speed,” CHS coach Liz Ledezma said. “We’ve been changing up our workouts, and it’s been working for us.”
Ledezma said Fuentes had a plan, and he accomplished what he set out to do.
“His goal was to stick with the Canyon guys for the first two minutes, and he did it,” she said. “All our boys improved from last time.”
Rounding out times for the Wildcats were freshman Adrian Surita, 30th in 17:36.31; freshman Marquez Lippman, 42nd in 18:10.10; junior Connor McQuiggan, 45th in 18:14.13; freshman Ryder Bonney, 49th in 18:21.01; senior Rudy Ledezma, 65th in 18:58.86, and senior Silas Atkinson-Adams, 99th in 24:10.20.
Meantime, the Clovis girls were ninth out of 25 full teams with 223 points, led by sophomore Brooke Newcomer, 14th in 12:36.83 over 3,200 meters. Canyon won with 25 points to 86 for runnerup Dalhart.
“Brooke has been doing really good,” Ledezma said. “We’ve been trying to keep her strong, and it’s helping her.”
Other finishes for the Lady Wildcats included freshman Roselia Morales, 20th in 12:47.24; senior Gabi Foggie, 23rd in 12:54.28; freshman Jelena Maldonado, 89th in 14:14.89; freshman Christina Waltrip, 100th in 14:24.33; senior Kira Tree, 109th in 14:35.91; eighth-grader Xeomara Garcia, 117th in 14:50.96; senior Liberty Kincade, 153rd in 16:17.75, and senior Yocelyn Romero, 167th in 16:48.11.
The Cats and Lady Cats are back in action on Friday in the Artesia Twilight Invitational.
Lady Rams compete in Roswell event – Portales High’s girls competed in Roswell’s Pecos Invitational on Saturday.
Carlsbad won the five-team event with 37 points, followed by Hagerman 53, Roswell High 62, Capitan 86 and the Lady Rams 99. The individual winner was Carlsbad’s Alyssa Balencia with a 5K time of 22:11.
Times and finishes for the Lady Rams included junior Miriam Caudillo, ninth in 24:35; freshman Brianna Aguilar, 16th in 25:44; junior Azian Smith, 22nd in 27:20; freshman Kloe Smith, 26th in 29:07, and junior Emily Bustamante, 30th in 33:48.
The PHS girls are also slated to run in Artesia’s meet on Friday.
