Snowflake joined dozens of schools at the Nike Desert Twilight Cross Country Festival held in Casa Grande on Friday evening. The Lobos competed in the small school varsity race along with 61 other boys’ teams and 41 other girls’ teams. Snowflake’s boys team finished in 10th place overall, and the Lady Lobos squad finished third overall in the small school varsity event.
The boys team was paced by Kaden Clark who finished 78th with a time of 17:58. Heber Espinosa was 82nd; Russell Baker, 89th; Ryan Kay, 105th; Scott Bloomfield, 121st; Noah Fish, 132nd; and Daniel Peterson was 160th, in the race, which had 456 total runners.
In the girls small school varsity race, Snowflake’s Mignon Ritz finished in fifth place out of 349 runners with a time of 19:51. Hallie Nichols was 49th; Maggie Shumway, 91st; Alyssa Hall, 95th; Rachel Pitts, 112th; Hope Bateman, 115th; Caitlyn King, 118th; and Ciara DeSpain finished in 211th position.
