Reina Paredes led Rio Rancho's girls to a second-place finish at the St. Vrain Invitational. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Time for our weekly review of the Southwest region. It was a very busy week, with especially important meets in Utah and Colorado.
As usual, though, our first stop is in...
NEVADA
Larry Burgess Invitational - The Centennial girls did exactly what they were expected to do--clean house on everyone else. Their domination was thorough. And it took a Utah team (Cedar) to fill in at second place. Small-school Page out of Arizona was a very credible fourth. Alexis Gourier got Centennial started well on their rout with a nearly 40-second margin of victory.
Page's boys did the girls one better by taking home the team title here. Page had 62 to 97 for second-place. And, if this is indeed a 3-mile course, those are blazing times that Page posted. Page definitely did a little visibility raising this past weekend.
Page, by the way, could have easily qualified for the small-school divi...