{"id":53934,"date":"2019-10-04T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/juneau-pair-carves-out-top-times-at-state-xc-meet\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T19:56:38","slug":"juneau-pair-carves-out-top-times-at-state-xc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/juneau-pair-carves-out-top-times-at-state-xc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau pair carves out top times at state XC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<p>The capital city was well represented on Saturday at the ASAA Division I girls state cross country race.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Juneau&rsquo;s Sadie Tuckwood and Kiah Dihle each cracked the top eight in the afternoon race of over 80 runners on the Bartlett High School Recreation Trails in Anchorage.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Tuckwood, a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaat.at Kal&#233;, was the second-place finisher behind West Valley&rsquo;s Kendall Kramer for the second year in a row, and Dihle, a sophomore at Thunder Mountain High School, improved her state meet time by one and a half minutes &mdash; from 20 minutes, 40 seconds, down to 19:10 &mdash; en route to finishing eighth overall.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;It was a great race and it was really fun,&rdquo; Dihle said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fun to race against girls outside of Southeast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Tuckwood&rsquo;s Crimson Bears placed third in the team standings with 79 points, 26 off from first-place winner South Anchorage (53 points). West Valley of Fairbanks was second overall with 57 points, and Service was just one back of JDHS with 80 points.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-attachment in-story\"><a href='https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaat.at Kal&#233; senior Sadie Tuckwood races in second place in the ASAA Division I girls cross country championships at Bartlett High School on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Tuckwood took second overall with a time of 18:13. (Nolin Ainsworth | Juneau Empire)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18828592_web1_DSC_7243-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 98vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"p-exclude\">Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaat.at Kal&#233; senior Sadie Tuckwood races in second place in the ASAA Division I girls cross country championships at Bartlett High School on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Tuckwood took second overall with a time of 18:13. (Nolin Ainsworth | Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<p>The race featured more than 10 different teams from the Interior, Southeast and Southcentral, and was the final of six 5-kilometer races on the wooded course in the northeast corner of Anchorage. The event started at 10 a.m. with the small schools boys race.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Like Dihle, Tuckwood also chopped off time on the Bartlett course, the regular venue for the state meet. She clinched the state title as a freshman with her 18:16, and on Saturday dropped that time to 18:13.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;I was just going to do my best and that&rsquo;s all you can do,&rdquo; Tuckwood said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hd6dk_tJtY8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Behind her and Dihle were freshman Skylar Tuckwood (16th, 19:32), Anna Iverson (21st, 19:55), Annika Schwartz (24th, 20:07), Katie McKenna (27th, 20:15), Hannah Deer (50th, 21:01), Trinity Jackson (54th, 21:15), Ellie Knapp (55th, 21:17) and McKenna McNutt (65th, 21:46).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Kramer led by over 20 yards by the 2-kilometer mark, leaving Tuckwood and South Anchorage&rsquo;s Ava Earl jostling for second place. Between the 2K and 3K mark, Tuckwood distanced herself from the Wolverines runner to take sole possession of second.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;I wanted to stay as close as I could to Kendall,&rdquo; Tuckwood said. &ldquo;I just tried to not slow down too much.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>That strategy was apparently adopted by Dihle, too, who kept in front of the main pack of runners.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;I wanted to stay out in front, not get too far behind,&rdquo; Dihle said. &ldquo;I wanted top-10 and I got it and I&rsquo;m pretty happy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Falcons coach Sandi Pahlke wasn&rsquo;t necessarily surprised by her sophomore&rsquo;s big race.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;We knew Kiah was going to run really strong,&rdquo; Pahlke said. &ldquo;They were all rested, they were ready to go. The big thing about this (meet) is if it&rsquo;s you&rsquo;re first one, it&rsquo;s kind of a mental one because it&rsquo;s a totally different race &mdash; it&rsquo;s hillier but it&rsquo;s also the atmosphere.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Fellow underclassmen Skylar Tuckwood and Schwartz also impressed, according to Crimson Bear co-coaches Merry Ellefson and Tristan Knutson-Lombardo.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Coming off a state title, the improvement of South Anchorage and West Valley proved too much this time for Juneau-Douglas, who collectively ran faster than they did a year ago.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s really hard for the girls to come in as defending state champions and be running as a team faster than you were last year and also to have the rest of the state have gotten faster,&rdquo; Knutson-Lombardo said. &ldquo;I thought that they really stuck their necks out there and they just competed for what is a good solid finish for them based on what the rest of the state is doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Team Scores<\/strong> &mdash; 1) South Anchorage 53; 2) West Valley 57; 3) JDHS 79; 4) Service 80; 5) Chugiak 119; 6) Eagle River; 7) Soldotna 222; 8) Lathrop 229; 9) Colony 235; 10) Kodiak 244.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><hr \/><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com.:<\/b><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><hr \/><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadie Tuckwood places second overall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":53935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53934","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=53934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53934"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}