Konkin, Drolet , Erickson capture medals on opening day of West Kootenay Cross Country season
Jackson Konkin of J. Lloyd Crowe in Trail and Salmo’s Jasmine Drolet came out on top of the first race of the West Kootenay Cross Country season Tuesday at L.V. Rogers in Nelson.
Konkin finnished the 7.8 kilometer course in a time of 32 minutes, five seconds to capture the Senior Boys category.
Second was Keiran Marchand of LVR while Jasper Mair of Mount Sentinel was third.
Daniel Stewart, Sammuel Cristofanetti and Jesse Drew, all of Mount Sentinel, rounded out the top five.
Drolet won the Junior Girls Division ahead of Avie Waterfall of Trafalgar.
Sophie Edney and Mikyla Bergman of LVR were third and fourth.
Zoe Taylor of Wildflower in Nelson was fifth.
Matti Erickson won the Junior Boy’s race ahead of Trafalgar teammate Emerald Lockhart.
Hunter Denamy of Grand Forks was third followed by Brett Carr of Kaslo and Devon Duerichen of New Denver.
Evan Taylor won the Grade 7 race while A. J. Barrett of Trafalgar won the Elementary event.
The West Kootenay Cross Country circuit shifts to New Denver of the next race.
LVR Cross Country Meet Full Results:
Senior Boys 7.8K
1. Jackson Konkin
2. Keiran Marchand
3. Jasper Mair
4. Daniel Stewart
5. Samuel Cristofanetti
6. Jesse Drew
Junior Girls 5.2K
1. Jasmine Drolet
2. Avie Waterfall
3. Sophie Edney
4. Mikyla Bergman
5. Zoe Taylor
6. Yasmin Evans
7. Daniella Sirois Ennis
8. Bethany Pardoe
9. Katherina Weitzing
10. Nikita Baldwin
Junior Boys 5.2K
1. Matti Erickson
2. Emerald Lockhart
3. Hunter Denamy
4. Brett Carr
5. Devon Duerichen
6. Gabriel Nemiroff
7. Dylan Gyr
8. Nate Atkins
9. Sacha Argent
10. Jack Grant
11. Ethan Lovegrove
12. Kepler Zuk
13. Boris O.
14. Lars Beckman
15. Noah Light
16. Arin Miller
17. Cale O’Meara
18. Jared Jennings
19. Isaac Visser
20. Jace Lamoureux
21. Joe Surina JVH 35:20
22. Mark Rimmer Trafalgar 35:42
23. Michael Rhodes-Bliss Trafalgar 41:08
24. Kell Wictorin Lucerne 43:32
Grade Seven 5.2K
1. Evan Taylor
2. Maya Maturo
3. Sakura Azzopardi
4. Johann Taylor-Gregg
5. Narayani Shaporalova
6. Angus Johnson
7. Devon Kilgour
Elementary 1.2K
1. A.J. Barrett grade 6
2. Charlie Morrison grade 5
3. Fin Taylor grade 5
4. Petula Perry grade 4
5. Carmen Lewandowski
6. Jay Tremaine grade 5
7. Ayla Kipkie grade 4
8. Keegan Taylor grade 6
9. Yonah Bahalul grade 4
10. Zander Kleiss grade 5