Hood River Valley’s young cross country team will put nearly two weeks of training to the test this week, when the Eagles compete in the second Northwest Oregon Conference meet of the 2023 season.
The Sept. 21 race is at Rood Ridge Park near Hillsboro and will include the nine NWOC schools.
The first league meet was Sept. 6 at Champoeg State Park. Junior Logan King asserted himself in that competition, winning the boys 5,000-meter race in a 50-second, personal-best time of 16 minutes, 12 seconds. Kai Wagner, was third in 16:33. Hood River sophomore Sam Knoll was seventh for Coach Brandon Bertram’s team.
The Eagle girls were second at Champoeg and led by sophomore Syl Perrin (third overall), and the pack of Olivia Millikin-Spray, Charlotte Fuller and Katie Godkin, who were 13th, 14th and 15th.
Hood River’s boys were coming off a third-place finish in the 5A-6A boys varsity race Sept. 2 at the annual Ultimook cross country meet near Tillamook. The Eagles scored 161 team points, trailing winner South Albany (146) and runner-up Cleveland of Portland (147) in the 24-team race.
King finished fourth overall in 17 minutes, 6 seconds over the 5,000-meter course at Hydrangea Ranch. Wagner (13th, 17:47), Knoll (15th, 17:51), Victor Coffman (30th, 18:32), and James Donnelly (104th, 20:25) completed the Eagle team score.
The top finisher for the HRV girls was Sadie Baumann, who was 64th in 24:08 in the 5A-6A varsity race. The Eagle girls did not field a complete varsity team. Fuller was 71st in 24:18 for HRV.
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