Fernley boys win Incline meet; take second at Lowry

The Fernley High School boys cross country team won the Incline Highlander 5k on Oct. 15 and

placed second in the Lowry Cross Country Invitational.

Joe Perkins led the way for the Vaqueros, finishing second out of 33 runners at Incline with a

time of 19:22.7 and fourth out of 119 runners at Lowry with a time of 15:52.

At Incline, the Vaqueros had four of the top six runners, with Zachary Petersen placing fourth

with a time of 19.29.0, Cael Wilson fifth in 19:29.5 and Dominick Dietrich sixth with a time of

19:47.0. Skyler Ledesma-James was Fernley’s fifth scorer with a 15^th place finish in a time of

21:56.1.

As a team, the boys were first among the four schools with full teams, with 17 team points.

Incline was second with 27 points.

The girls team finished second of the three full teams with 29 points. Incline won the meet with

10 points.

Corbyn Gillespie was the top finisher for the Ferney girls, in eighth place among 19 total runners

with a time of 27:16.5. Wynter Angus placed ninth in 28:05.8, Regan Scott came in 10^th with a

time of 28:58.5, Grace Schmidtlein was 16^th in 35:35.6 and Reann Jones placed 17^th with a time

of 37:32.2.

At Lowry, the boys finished second with 100 points behind Spring Creek, which won the meet

with 63 points. There were 12 full boys teams.

Behind Perkins, Wilson finished 18^th with a time of 17:54, Petersen came in 21^st in 17:58,

Dietrich placed 26^th in 18:15 and Alex Mergell posted a time of 18:37 to finish 32^nd.

The girls were eighth among eight full teams.

Gillespie had the fastest time for Fernley, finishing 37^th in a field of 87 runners with a time of

23:46. Angus was 54^th in 25:08, Scott placed 55^th with a time of 25:11, Schmidtlein finished 76^th

in 30:43 and Jones came in 84^th with a time of 34:11.

The Vaqueros have this week off to prepare for the Northern 3A Region Championships on Oct.