Cascade High School Cross Country

Cascade High School’s cross country team had a dominating day at the Caribou Trail League Championship meet at Walla Walla Point Park on Tuesday. Cascade’s girls’ varsity team won with a perfect score of 15, the best score possible in cross country, where the places of the top 5 finishers are added with lowest score winning. They were led by league champion Caroline Menna in 1^st, who ran the 5k (3.1 mile) course in a time of 20:22. She was followed by Izzy Menna in 3rd, Alice Farrell in 4^th, Gwen Pehowski in 5^th, Tillie Leroy in 6^th, Harper Baker in 10^th, and Paige Nunnally in 11^th. Abby Ludwig of Chelan finished 2^nd, but since Chelan didn’t run a full team, she doesn’t count in the team scoring. Omak finished in 2^nd place with a team score of 62, followed by Cashmere with 78 and Quincy with 80.

Cascade’s boys team also took first place with a team score of 20 to Cashmere’s 56, followed by Chelan with 79, Quincy with 107, and Omak with 111. Cascade’s Aiden Tuttle won the league championship with a time of 17:54. He was followed by Cascade’s Evan Butruille in 2^nd, Blue Knutson in 4^th, Jasper Bard in 5^th, Brayden Anderson in 8^th, Anthony Villalobos in 9^th, and Olen Johnson in 14^th. Cascade’s boys and girls JV teams also won the team scoring, the JV girls again with a perfect score of 15.

Winning at the league meet means both teams earn a berth at the State meet in Pasco on Nov. 5^th. Last year the boys took 3^rd and the girls 10^th out of the 16 1A teams that make it to State. The runners are going to keep working hard over the next week to see what they can do this year!