The Wildcats hosted six other teams at their invitational meet held on Friday. Alchesay won the girls team title with 23 total points. Winslow placed second with 61, Valley was third with 66 and Show Low was fourth with 78. Cibecue and Joseph City didn’t field enough runners to qualify a team score.
Peyton Parker from Alchesay won the girls title with a time of 23:34. Her teammates Kylie Ovah and Kylie Mansfield placed second and third respectively. Nevaeh Barlow of Sanders was fourth and Dolli Nachu of Alchesay was fifth. Fifty-four runners finished the 3.1-mile course.
Lacy Deets represented the host school finishing 26th with a time of 31:59.
Eight boys’ teams competed in the event. Winslow took top honors with 41 points, just two points ahead of second place Alchesay. Valley was third with 93, followed closely by Joseph City in fourth with 96. Payson took the fifth spot with 103 team points.
Tyethan Barney of Valley Sanders won the race with a time of 18:30. Yonah Beatty from Alchesay was second. Juelz Soke from Winslow finished third.
Cory McLaws paced Joseph City’s team in fifth place, with a time of 20:34. Pharrell Poselt finished 17th in 23:00; William Grant, 21st in 23:23; Noah Edwards, 24th in 23:47; Brayden Bushman, 32nd in 26:34; and Jimmy McLaws finished 35th with a time of 27:16. Forty-nine runners completed the race.
