THE GORGE - Columbia High senior Lilah Zimmerman won her third Trico League individual cross country championship Oct. 21, winning the 2026, 5,000-meter girls varsity race at Vancouver Lake.
Zimmerman, who set the school record for 5,000-meters at a meet earlier this season, won the league race in 19 minutes, 46 seconds. The Bruin girls were second as a team behind La Center. Zimmerman also won titles as a freshman and sophomore. Junior teammate Kathryn O’Connor was fourth at the league meet in a season best 20:58.
The Columbia boys were third at Vancouver Lake behind Seton Catholic and La Center. Freshman Owen Becker-Nunley was the top Bruin finisher in eighth place (17:50).
Hood River competed one final time this season prior to this week’s district meet in the Oct. 21, Happy Hustle Invite in Corvallis. The HRV boys won the team title at the Hustle, scoring 42 points and besting 21 other schools of various enrollment sizes. Freshman Gus VandenHeuvel was second overall, and frosh teammate Sam Schwager was fourth to pace the Eagles.
HRV’s girls were led by Savina Davis, who finished fifth overall (19:15); the Eagles were 13th out of 21 scoring teams.
The Dalles competed at the 3,000-meter Valiant Invitational on Oct. 20 in Beaverton, where the Riverhawk girls placed first out of 14 teams with five runners among the top 20 varsity finishers. Junior Flamingo Duyck was third overall in 10:57.3. Fellow Gorge runner Melody Stock of Trout Lake was second in 10:56.1.
The Dalles boys were fourth at the Valiant meet, led by Luke Sorenson (fourth, 9:33.6, 3,000 meters).
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