Cross country season ends for local harriers

Copper Hills and West Jordan placed side by side in team scores at this year’s state 5A cross country championships, held Oct. 19 at Sugar House Park.

In the boys division, the Grizzlies were 9^th with a team score of 296, just a bit better than West Jordan at 302. American Fork won the title with 25 points (low score wins in cross country). The Jaquars placed higher in the girls team race, finishing 11^th with 307 points to 313 for 12^th place Copper Hills. Davis won the team title with 44 points.

Individually, both schools had runners place in the top 20 in boys. Copper Hills junior Hunter Weintz was 17^th at 16:14.5. West Jordan senior Zach Smith was 18^th at 16:21.2.

Other Copper Hills runners among the team’s top five (scored runners) were senior Kade Singleton in 60^th at 17:26.9, senior Jacob Baker in 68^th at 17:43.4, senior Jaysen Natch in 88^th at 18:11.7 and senior Mitch Crane in 93^rd at 18:19.5.

For West Jordan, senior Michael Peters placed 70^th at 17:45.5, senior Mitchell Booth was 79^th at 17:56.2, sophomore Mitch Wade took 81^st at 18:01.0 and sophomore Devin Clark was 86^th at 18:09.0.

The top local finisher in girls was West Jordan senior Sara Fauver, who placed 37^th at 20:42.6. Copper Hills sophomore Jessica Johnson led her team with a 47^th place finish in 20:55.7.

Other scorers for West Jordan were senior Ali Walker, 54^th at 21:09.8; junior Stephanie Larsen, 77^th at 22:12.9; junior Megan Perkins, 81^st at 22:26.2; and junior Sara Hills, 86^th at 22:39.6. For Copper Hills, senior Bergen Haynes was 60^th at 21:32.9, sophomore Heidi Farley 68^th at 21:54.1, sophomore Cassidy Gummersall 78^th at 22:14.0 and senior Alexis Chamberlain placed 91^st at 22:48.4.