Hosbond wins, C-M girls finish third at Montezuma Invitational

MONTEZUMA — Ashlynn Hosbond posted a career-best time and won for the first time this season, and the Colfax-Mingo girls cross country team placed third against five other South Iowa Cedar League schools on Thursday.

The Tigerhawks competed in a mini conference meet and scored 70 points in third. Class 1A No. 10 English Valleys won the meet with 29 points and Sigourney was second with 59.

Belle Plaine (100), BGM (108) and HLV/TC (127) completed the six-team field at the Big Springs Shooting Complex.

Hosbond won the girls’ 5K race in a career-best 20 minutes, 6.1 seconds.

Ivy Anderson (23:30.2) was 11th, Sahara Buenrostro (25:33.8) placed 21st, Lilyan Hadsall (25:45.2) was 23rd and Mallory Sipma (27:05.4) took 31st as the other scoring runners.

English Valleys won the meet title after putting all five scoring runners in the top 10. Anna Luers was the runner-up in 20:51.

Sigourney finished ahead of the Tigerhawks after going 3-4-8-12 at the top of its lineup. Hosbond did finish in front of Class 1A No. 30 Addison Yates, who was fourth overall.

C-M girls face stacked field at North Polk

ALLEMAN — The Tigerhawks competed against nine other schools on Monday, and seven of them appeared in last week’s rankings.

Hosbond was 12th in the race, but the Tigerhawks placed 10th with 246 points.

Class 3A No. 11 Boone (64) edged 3A No. 12 Gilbert (66) for the meet title, and the rest of the field included 3A No. 16 North Polk (81), 2A No. 4 Van Meter (83), 1A No. 11 Collins-Maxwell (135), 2A No. 18 Grand View Christian (168), 3A No. 8 Des Moines Christian (187), Bondurant-Farrar (200) and Nevada (204).

Hosbond’s 12th-place time was clocked in 20:37.4. Anderson (23:10.4) placed 51st, Sipma (24:40.38) was 62nd, Jessica Gibson (25:08.94) took 68th and Hadsall (25:22.2) was the final scoring runner in 69th.

Buenrostro was a non-scoring runner in 72nd. She was clocked in 27:06.42.

Boone won the meet title after placing four runners in the top 10. Gilbert’s Keira Anderson, who is ranked 27th in 3A, won the girls’ race in 18:54.68.

Van Meter’s Laura Streck was the runner-up in 19:16.2. Streck is ranked No. 1 in 2A.