![]() ![]() The Varsity Girls race that followed delivered far more decisive results, both in the race for the individual championship and the team championship. East senior Charlie Kruger (19:16) and sophomore Kai Luna (19:35) were the next two to sprint down the long finishing straightaway for 9 th and 10 th place, securing the win for East with 27 points to South’s 29 points. With four runners each across the finish line, East and South were locked in an 18-point tie. Two South runners crossed the line before East senior Alan Harder (19:04) and junior Julio Dominguez-Perez (19:06) came in, putting East’s 4 th runner a single place ahead of South’s 4 th runner who came across next. A bit further back, senior Jack Kriekels moved up from 5 th place to 3 rd place over the latter stages of the race, passing two South runners on his way to finishing just a fraction of a second behind his second-place teammate – a finishing surge which would prove decisive in East’s eventual razor thin victory. Junior Charlie Keglovitz (18:42) took an early lead only to eventually be caught by the top South runner with about a half mile to run. While the East Girls JV left nothing to doubt from the beginning of their race, the Denver East Boys JV (ranked as the 10 th best JV team in the State according to Colorado MileSplit) got everything they could handle from a surprising Denver South JV team. Senior Gemma Haller (14 th, 23:59), junior Clara Artley (15 th, 24:08), sophomore Avery Ash (16 th, 24:08), ninth grader Ana Beam (18 th, 24:11), and sophomore Isabella Raworth-Erazo (19 th, 24:15) would put an explanation point on the Angels dominance of the race, finishing with 10 of the top 20 runners in the race. A rare trio of runners not from East crossed the line before sophomore Anna Rothman-Haji (23:22) and ninth grader Ella Terch (23:30) came through in 7 th and 8 th to complete the scoring for the Angels with a measly 21 points – good enough to beat the rest of all DPS teams combined. O’Meara was followed across the finish line by East classmate Ellie Goldstein (23:01) and ninth grade Lila Cypers (23:03) who each had a firm grip on 2 nd and 3 rd places respectively from early stages of the race. Junior Bri O’Meara would kick the winning into gear with a dominating wire to wire win in the Girls JV championship race, running 22:29 over the deceptively tough course. The worst of the forecasted weather, which threatened wind and a cold rain, never fully materialized, but great performances from a long list of Angels certainly did. The East Angels ran to four DPS League team titles on cool fall afternoon on Denver East’s home course at City Park. ![]()
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