Nevada Appeal Staff Report
The Carson High boys cross country team may not be able to claim the
title as NIAA 4A State Champions. But Carson’s boys can claim the title
as being the fastest team in the state.
Despite finishing with the
best overall time, Carson was edged out by Centennial by one point for
the state title in Saturday’s NIAA 4A State meet at Boulder City’s
Veterans’ Park.
Despite the heartbreaking finish (Centennial
finished with 56 points, Carson finished with 57), nothing could be
taken away from Carson’s best effort of the season as it had three
runners finish in the top 10 (Richard Shroy, Nick Schlager and Logan
Philippi).
Carson had two girls competing as individuals and Amanda
Gordan had an outstanding race, finishing 10th overall. Yvonne Hollett
also appeared to be on her way to a third place finish when CHS coach
Pete Sinnott actually removed Hollett from the course as a precaution.
As
expected, the Sierra Lutheran boys led by Wade Meddles dominated the 2A
state meet as Meddles had the fastest time of the day on any level to
win the individual state crown, leading the Douglas County school to
the state team title. Galena’s girls also had a banner day to win the
4A state crown.
Reno High dominated last week’s Northern 4A meet,
finishing with 38 points while Carson took second with 63 points. But
for the first time this year, the Senators were able to beat Reno,
which finished third with 60 points.
Carson finished with an overall time of 1 hour, 26 minutes, 48.92 seconds while Centennial finished with a time of 1:26:53.14.
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