Juneau-Douglas High School’s Sadie Tuckwood and Arne Ellefson-Carnes repeated as Division I Region V Cross Country Running Champions Saturday in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n
The duo won their respective 5-kilometer races at the Ward Lake Recreational Area — their fourth sweep of a Southeast Alaska meet this season.<\/p>\n
They will now head to the state meet next week in Anchorage, and they won’t be going alone, either.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears boys finished 1-2-3-4 and totaled a striking 19 points to win the region title.<\/p>\n
The girls side scored 23 points to deny Thunder Mountain their first region title in four years.<\/p>\n
“We’re all pretty confident and we knew that if we went in with confidence then that would reflect on the results,” JDHS sophomore Sosan Monsef said.<\/p>\n
Thunder Mountain High School qualified four of their own to the state meet: Hannah Deer, Erin Wallace, Reece Bleakley and Shafer Suzuki.<\/p>\n
Wallace delivered her fastest race of the season to finish fifth overall and qualify for her fourth state championship. Meanwhile, Suzuki will be running in his first-ever state meet.<\/p>\n
Suzuki was on the bubble for state qualification. The senior had been finishing as the No. 10 runner among Division I runners (JDHS, TMHS and Ketchikan) over the past couple of meets. Only the top-10 finishers at the regional meet qualify for state as individuals.<\/p>\n
“It was a little more spacious this race so we were able to advance more and get some (personal records),” Suzuki said.<\/p>\n
Even with Thunder Mountain girls finishing 3-5-9, they weren’t able to pull off the upset and dethrone JDHS.<\/p>\n
For Ellefson-Carnes, he said there’s more work to be done this season. His team is shooting for a top-five finish at the state meet next weekend in Anchorage.<\/p>\n
“We’re all really tired of getting last or second to last the couple of years,” he said.<\/p>\n
Boys Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Juneau-Douglas 19<\/p>\n 2) Ketchikan 39<\/p>\n 3) TMHS 75<\/p>\n Boys 5-Kilometers<\/strong><\/p>\n 1, Arne Ellefson-Carnes, JDHS, 16:51. 2, Shadrach Stitz, JDHS, 17:20. 3, Clem Taylor-Roth, JDHS, 17:22. 4, Tim McKenna, JDHS, 17:32. 5, John Coss, Ketchikan, 17:42. 6, Paul Almendinger, Ketchikan, 17:52. 7, Leif Stephens, Ketchikan, 17:52. 8, Phillip Smith, Ketchikan, 17:54. 9, Ronan Davies, JDHS, 18:11. 10, Shafer Suzuki, TMHS, 18:22. 11, Tucker Kelly, TMHS, 18:27. 12, Tim Deneger, JDHS, 18:47. 13, Henry Clark, Ketchikan, 18:51. 14, Dwight King, Ketchikan, 18:57. 15, Hunter Mathews, Ketchikan, 19:06. 16, Max Dapevich, JDHS, 19:12. 17, Jacob Babcock, TMHS, 19:16. 18, Riley Sikes, TMHS, 19:21. 19, Elias West, TMHS, 19:28. 20, Jonah Brown, TMHS, 19:46.<\/p>\n Girls Team Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Juneau-Douglas 23<\/p>\n 2) TMHS 41<\/p>\n 3) Ketchikan 62<\/p>\n Girls 5-Kilometers<\/strong><\/p>\n 1, Sadie Tuckwood, JDHS, 18:24. 2, Anna Iverson, JDHS, 20:06. 3, Hannah Deer, TMHS, 20:10. 4, Jasmin Holst, JDHS, 20:39. 5, Erin Wallace, TMHS, 20:56. 6, Miriam Stitz, JDHS, 21:07. 7, Morgan Elerding, Ketchikan, 21:09. 8, Elizabeth Knight, Ketchikan, 21:14. 9, Reece Bleakley, TMHS, 21:22. 10, Sosan Monsef, JDHS, 21:29. 11, Sally Thompson, TMHS, 21:33. 12, Katie McKenna, JDHS, 21:38. 13, Elizabeth Knapp, TMHS, 22:10. 14, Ashley Cyr, Ketchikan, 22:22. 15, Linnea Lentfer, JDHS, 23:10. 16, Rachel Knight, Ketchikan, 23:49. 17, Breanna Gentry, Ketchikan, 24:07. 18, Cassandra Stout, Ketchikan, 24:14. 19, Veronica Salter, TMHS, 24:41. 20, Bella Hannah, TMHS, 25:12. 21, Sydney Nichols, Ketchikan, 25:33.<\/p>\n • Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas High School’s Sadie Tuckwood and Arne Ellefson-Carnes repeated as Division I Region V Cross Country Running Champions Saturday in Ketchikan. The duo won their respective 5-kilometer races at the Ward Lake Recreational Area — their fourth sweep of a Southeast Alaska meet this season. They will now head to the state meet next week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":33743,"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-33742","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\/33742","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=33742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33742"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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