The Montoya's

Socorro XC wins the Berry Patch Invitational

The Socorro boys won their first meet this weekend in Cloudcroft at the Berry Patch Invitational despite not having two of our normal top five runners. We had the top individual finisher and placed all five of our scoring runners in the top nine overall. We would have had the first and second overall finishers but a wrong turn cost one of our boys the title. Luckily, we were able to keep that title on the team as we had a runner following behind in second. Needless to say the kids were very excited to win and bring home their first team trophy and many individual medals. So far this season had been filled with large meets against large schools so it was nice to get a taste of winning. In the coming weeks we travel to Las Cruces, Los Lunas, Rio Rancho, Grants, and then our district meet in Cobre. Things are looking good for us making it to state and we will be able to race against last years district champ, Cobre, this weekend at Mayfield.

The course was very challenging and fun. There were two hay bale sections and a pit section and many many uphills, fast downhills, and switchbacks. The course was not fast and at 9000 feet elevation, it made several over ambitious runners pay the price later in the race.