September 15, 2025
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Area girls post career-best times at Tigerhawk Invitational

Colfax-Mingo harriers place fifth at annual home meet

By Troy Hyde
Ashlynn Hosbond

Colfax-Mingo sophomore Ashlynn Hosbond (40) finished seventh in the girls' 5K race at the Tigerhawk Invitational on Thursday. The Tigerhawks were fifth at Kelly Fields. (Troy Hyde/Newton News )

COLFAX — Ten area runners competed in the girls’ 5K race at the Tigerhawk Invitational on Thursday. And most of them turned in career-best times at the finish line.

Colfax-Mingo was the only complete area team, and the Tigerhawks finished fifth in their annual home meet at Kelly Fields.

Elsie Hauser

Baxter freshman Elsie Hauser (1) finished 14th and posted a career-best time at the Tigerhawk Invitational on Thursday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News )

Class 1A No. 11 Collins-Maxwell had the race winner, two top-five finishers and won the team title with 45 points.

The Spartans edged Class 2A Grand View Christian (51) by six points and the rest of the top five included 2A Woodward-Granger (75), Pleasantville (77) and Colfax-Mingo (106).

Colfax-Mingo’s Ashlynn Hosbond led the area runners in seventh place. Her time was clocked in a career-best 20 minutes, 41.6 seconds. Ivy Anderson (23:16.56), Sahara Buenrostro (24:47.37), Mallory Sipma (24:48.86) and Lilyan Hadsall (24:54.58) were the other scoring runners in 21st, 32nd, 33rd and 36th, respectively.

Jessica Gibson (25:04.76) was the Tigerhawks’ non-scoring runner in 38th. Anderson, Buenrostro and Sipma also posted career-best times.

Sahara Buenrostro

From left: Colfax-Mingo sophomore Jessica Gibson, freshman Sahara Buenrostro and senior Lilyan Hadsall compete in the team's home cross country meet at Kelly Fields on Thursday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News )

Elsie Hauser was Baxter’s only runner. She placed 14th overall with a career-best time of 21:36.58.

The Newton JV also did not have enough runners for a team score. Kayden Langston (26:41.3) placed 44th, Layla Simon (31:31.24) finished 59th and Lili Wadsworth (33:47.34) took 65th.

Langston and Simon both posted career-best times, while Wadsworth turned in a season best.

The girls’ standings featured eight teams. Montezuma (153), BGM (199) and HLV/TC (222) completed the field, and the other incomplete teams were Clarke, Colo-NESCO and Saydel.

Kayden Langston

Newton senior Kayden Langston led the Cardinal junior varsity team at the Tigerhawk Invitational on Thursday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News )

Class 1A No. 21 Jayden Peters of Collins-Maxwell won the girls’ race in 18:51.13.

Class 2A No. 12 Eva Fleshner of Woodward-Granger was the runner-up in 18:57.13.

Notes: Newton head girls cross country coach Rachelle Tipton was happy with how her trio of JV runners pushed the pace. “These three got it after it tonight,” Tipton said. “Within the first half mile I could see they were going to push their paces and then they all held their ground and finished strong. We saw great time drops, especially from (Simon) who was a force to be reckoned with tonight.”