Aubrey Till has successfully made her break from the pursuit of Lauren Offerman by the top of the hill. Photo by Tim Hilt.
The later half of the Cheyenne Mountain Stampede was the domain of the larger schools, featuring six JV races and six more varsity races with the juggernaut classification of 4A being split into invitational and regular fields.
4A girls ran the Bear Creek circuit first. The race was featured dominant performances on both the individual and the team levels. Ava Berrier of Pueblo West led the field from start to finish winning in 21:54.0 with a 30-second lead over Madison Lambros of Cheyenne Mountain.
Cheyenne Mountain is important to mention as they managed to place all five of their scorers in the top ten with a 2-4-5-7-10 spread. It would seem that home field advantage extends to running as well. Or, it could simply be that Cheyenne Mountain was a much better team than their race placement suggested.
The 4A boys race was ...
