Win helps Wallace feel better.Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard Taylor Wallace's strength is her finish - even when she has little strength left. The junior at Henley outkicked Hood River's Erin Jones to win the 5,000-meter girls invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. at the 15th annual Northwest Cross Country Classic, held at Lane Community College on Saturday. Braving high winds and an illness, Wallace - in her first year of cross country - finished in 18 minutes, 55 seconds, seven seconds ahead of Jones. "I wanted to go earlier, but I just wasn't feeling that strong," said Wallace, who captured her fifth victory in as many events this season. "I'm not feeling too good today. My stomach hurts pretty bad. So I just decided to go at 300 and really make a strong kick there." Jones led nearly all of the race until Wallace took the lead once the duo hit the track, allowing Wallace to conserve energy by drafting Jones against windy conditions that added approximately 20 seconds to the final times, Lane cross country coach Ross Krempley estimated. "She had a kick," Jones said. "It was really hard fighting the wind. I kind of hit a wall when I hit the wind. It just took everything from me. She just had a better kick than me. "If I would have done it over again, I probably would have started out a little slower. And I probably would have started with her." Jones galloped to the lead at the start and held a slight edge of a handful of seconds at the first mile marker marker /mark·er/ (mahrk´er) something that identifies or that is used to identify. tumor marker , but Wallace closed directly behind Jones heading into the final loop. Crescent crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. Valley had five finishers in the top 25 to win the team title by 56 points over Ashland. Phoenix's Elliott Jantzer fought through the invisible wall An invisible wall is a video game term for a boundary that limits where a player can go, but doesn't appear in game as any kind of visible obstacle; it's as if someone built a glass wall in an open area—the player cannot see the wall, but it's there. of wind for the victory in the boys invitational with a time of 16:04. "I knew it was windy, so I decided I didn't really want to lead the race unless I had to," Jantzer said. Because of the conditions, Jantzer spent the first half of the race trying to draft off his competitors. However, near the midway Midway, island group (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) NW of Honolulu, comprising Sand and Eastern islands with the surrounding atoll. Discovered by Americans in 1859, Midway was annexed in 1867. A cable station was opened in 1903. point, the pace was too slow and he dashed dash 1 v. dashed, dash·ing, dash·es v.tr. 1. To break or smash by striking violently. 2. To hurl, knock, or thrust with sudden violence. 3. to the lead - a position he never relinquished re·lin·quish tr.v. re·lin·quished, re·lin·quish·ing, re·lin·quish·es 1. To retire from; give up or abandon. 2. To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended). 3. . Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Castillo from Hood River The Hood River is a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Approximately 25 mi (40 km) long from its mouth to its farthest headwaters on the East Fork, the river descends from wilderness areas in the Cascade Range on Mount Hood and flows finished 11 seconds behind after a slow start. Castillo, who tried to pace himself, said he went out too slow and was unable to make up for that mistake. "I started out slow because I knew I needed to pace myself," Castillo said. "I pushed the pace toward the end ... I just went for it, but he held it off pretty good." Ashland won the team title with 88 points, and Sheldon was fifth with 152. The Irish were led by Caleb Patrick's 19th-place finish. Mary Bennion of St. Mary's won the girls open race with a time of 20:06. Thurston's Brittany Arch placed fifth, at 20:40, leading the Colts to the team title with 108 points. Siuslaw was third with 113 points. The Thurston boys also won the open title, led by Alex Jones' sixth-place finish of 17:25. The Colts finished with 62 points. Siuslaw was second with 112. Marshfield's Jared Bassett won at 16:26. |
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