You rarely see the Mountain Vista guys running alone, and certainly not on Thursday. Photo by Alan Vesaw.
Inasmuch as the spirit of the sport is to run away from people, I suppose it's not terribly surprising that a couple schools around the region have elevated that spirit to the team level.
It's just that they made it look so easy. A tip of the hat to the Pine Creek girls and the Mountain Vista boys.
The girls had their turn first.
Heather Bates is a take-charge kind of racer, and the 5A Region 5 girls race was barely across the softball outfield where it started before Bates had built a commanding lead. Perhaps plagued by a stiff neck, Bates never even attempted to look back.
And, like a trio of Cooper Minis on assault, her Pine Creek enforcers teammates (Kroeker, Sered, and Sered) covered her back, making certain nobody had a chance to entertain the idea that the team outcome was even a tiny bit in doubt. And thus did Pine Creek cruise into the state me...