{"id":31262,"date":"2017-09-03T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/tuckwood-wins-her-second-meet-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T09:22:00","slug":"tuckwood-wins-her-second-meet-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/tuckwood-wins-her-second-meet-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuckwood wins her second meet of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore Sadie Tuckwood needed every inch of her 5-foot-4 frame to pull off a win Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 girls state cross country champion used a leaning finish to defeat West Valley&rsquo;s Kendall Kramer at the Palmer Invitational 5-kilometer race. Tuckwood&rsquo;s swift 18 minutes, 9.95 seconds finish on Palmer&rsquo;s Michael Janecek Running Trails was a mere 0.32 seconds ahead of Kramer.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer took the lead from Tuckwood late in the race, but the nimble sophomore reeled her in on the final 200 meters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I usually sprint like that at the end, but this time I really had to,&rdquo; Tuckwood said via cellphone from Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer finished 13 seconds behind Tuckwood at the <a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/sports\/2016-10-01\/freshman-phenon-tuckwood-shocks-field-cross-country-state-title\" target=\"_blank\">state meet<\/a> at Bartlett High School last year.<\/p>\n<p>The JDHS girls finished eighth overall in the meet, which attracted some of the top teams in the state, including West Valley, West Anchorage and Chugiak.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Iverson ran a 19:53 to finish 16th overall. The Crimson Bears&rsquo; Jasmin Holst (33rd, 21:16), Miriam Stitz (53rd, 22:15), Sosan Monsef (56th, 22:33) and Katie McKenna (63rd, 22:57) finished behind Iverson.<\/p>\n<p>The Juneau-Douglas boys team &mdash; rejuvenated with the return of senior Shadrach Stitz &mdash; claimed fifth place in the boys standings. Arne Ellefson-Carnes once again led the way for the Crimson Bears. After winning the Capital City Invitational last week, the shaggy-haired junior ran a 16:35 to finish fifth overall in Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Ellefson-Carnes said the statewide competition brought out the best in his running.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a constant pull and push,&rdquo; he said of the meet, which attracted 95 boys runners.<\/p>\n<p>West Anchorage&rsquo;s Luke Jager won the race in 16:05, beating out Chugiak&rsquo;s Max Hartke (16:10) and Eagle River&rsquo;s Nick Carl (16:28).<\/p>\n<p>Stitz and teammate Clem Taylor-Roth finished just 0.31 seconds apart from one another. Taylor-Roth (29th, 17:27) gained the slight edge on his teammate at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The main thing I wanted to do was finish second for my team,&rdquo; Taylor-Roth said. &ldquo;I knew Shadrach was going to be on my tail.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tim McKenna (55th, 18:08), Finn Morley (63rd 18:35), Aaron Blust (87th, 19:50) and Aiden Hopson (91st, 19:59) made up the rest of the boys team&rsquo;s finishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. West Anchorage 60<\/p>\n<p>2. West Valley 79<\/p>\n<p>3. Chugiak 82<\/p>\n<p>4. Wasilla 163<\/p>\n<p>5. Juneau-Douglas 178<\/p>\n<p>6. Lathrop 199<\/p>\n<p>7. East Anchorage 199<\/p>\n<p>8. Eagle River 201<\/p>\n<p>9. Colony 209<\/p>\n<p>10. South Anchorage 222<\/p>\n<p>11. Soldotna 237<\/p>\n<p>12. Palmer 268<\/p>\n<p>13. Kenai Central 272<\/p>\n<p>14. North Pole 427<\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. West Valley 43<\/p>\n<p>2. Kenai Central 65<\/p>\n<p>3. Chugiak 116<\/p>\n<p>4. Eagle River 126<\/p>\n<p>5. West Anchorage 163<\/p>\n<p>6. South Anchorage 145<\/p>\n<p>7. Palmer 154<\/p>\n<p>8. Juneau-Douglas 159<\/p>\n<p>9. Colony 190<\/p>\n<p>10. Lathrop 242<\/p>\n<p>11. Soldotna 277<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Subhead\"><strong>Haines Invitational <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The JDHS junior varsity and Thunder Mountain varsity and junior varsity ran on Saturday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletic.net\/CrossCountry\/Results\/Meet.aspx?Meet=136952#\/34300\" target=\"_blank\">Haines Invitational<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Sitka and part of JDHS&rsquo; team absent, the TMHS girls stole the spotlight &mdash; finishing 1-2-3-4-5 in the 5-kilometer race around Southeast State Fairgrounds. The Falcons dominant race earned them a perfect score of 15.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Hannah Deer &mdash; who finished second in the Capital City Invitational &mdash; won the girls race in 21:09.<\/p>\n<p>JDHS came in second with 47 points, ahead of Haines (76 points) and Mt. Edgecumbe (107).<\/p>\n<p>The Haines Glacier Bears won the boys race (44 points), eclipsing second-place TMHS by 10 points. Skagway&rsquo;s Danny Brady ran an 18:16 to finish first. Falcons&rsquo; Shafer Suzuki and Tucker Kelly were fifth and sixth respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Thunder Mountain 15<\/p>\n<p>2. Juneau Douglas 47<\/p>\n<p>3. Haines 76<\/p>\n<p>4. Mt Edgecumbe 107<\/p>\n<p>5. Skagway 140<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Haines 44<\/p>\n<p>2. Thunder Mountain 54<\/p>\n<p>3. Juneau Douglas 66<\/p>\n<p>4. Skagway 89<\/p>\n<p>5. Mt Edgecumbe 132<\/p>\n<p>6. Hoonah 144<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>&#8226; Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore Sadie Tuckwood needed every inch of her 5-foot-4 frame to pull off a win Saturday. The 2016 girls state cross country champion used a leaning finish to defeat West Valley&rsquo;s Kendall Kramer at the Palmer Invitational 5-kilometer race. Tuckwood&rsquo;s swift 18 minutes, 9.95 seconds finish on Palmer&rsquo;s Michael Janecek Running Trails was a mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":31263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}