Ali Jackson placed 14th and Jesus Hernandez placed 16th to lead the Fort Stockton cross country teams at the Lubbock ISD Invitational on Sept. 17 at Mae Simmons Park – the location of this year’s regional meet.

The event, which had races separated by classification, served as a regional barometer for the Prowlers and Panthers as numerous top teams from Fort Stockton’s district and region competed in Saturday’s race. Randall, who moved down from 5A to 4A this year won the girl’s division while Canyon won the boy’s division as they swept the top 5 spots.

The Fort Stockton girl’s placed 13th out of 20 teams with in the 4A race while the Panthers, who were without their top runner in Fabian Perez, finished in 12th place out of 18 teams with a score of 307 – one point ahead of Pecos. Jackson crossed the finish of the girl’s twomile race in 13 minutes 8 seconds, good enough for the third-fastest time out of the teams that reside in Fort Stockton’s district (4A District 3).

A pair of freshmen residing in 4A District 3 programs – Monahans’ Elyse Santiago and Big Springs’ Bergan Pinkley – placed 10th and 13th respectively.

Summer Hinojos placed 39th (14:08) out of 127 runners and Arissa Jimenez finished in 76th place (15:37). Natalie Molinar rounded out the varsity squad scorers for the Prowlers with a 95th place finish (16:14). For the Panthers, Hernandez’s 5K time of 18:06 was the fourth-fastest mark of 4A District 3 teams.

Big Spring’s Adrian Solis and Isaac Gonzales placed sixth and seventh respectively. Andrews’ Wyatt Everts took 13th out of the 126 runners that competed in the boys 4A race.

For perspective on the boy’s race times, Fabian Perez’s regional time on the same course in 2021 (16:53) would have earned him a seventh-place finish at Saturday’s meet.

Aryan Hernandez (62nd), Luis Medina (72nd), and Khalil Jackson (82nd) capped the varsity scorers for the Panthers.

The Fort Stockton cross country program will head to Presidio for their next meet, the Bo Coffman XC Invitational on Sept. 24 at Lucy Rede Franco Middle School.

Boys Team Scores

1. Canyon 15; 2. Dumas 86; 3. Big Spring 95; 4. Andrews 168; 5. Perryton 171; 6. Randall 183; 7. Stephenville 210; 8. Mineral Wells 244; 9. Seminole 275; 10 Borger 280 Boys Individual Results 1. Alex Niemiec, Canyon (16:02); 2. Lathan Lewter, Canyon (16:19); 3. Triston Cano, Canyon (16:27); 4. Ryan Fernandez, Canyon (16:37); 5. Anthony Stuart, Canyon (16:41), 6. Adrian Solis, Big Spring (16:50); 7. Isaac Gonzales, Big Spring (17:00), 8. River Johnson, Canyon (17:24), 9. Angel Garcia, Hereford (17:31); 10. Noah Williams, Dumas (17:39).

Girls Team Scores

1. Randall 39; 2. Canyon 56; 3. Dumas 59; 4. Perryton 184; 5. Andrews 186; 6. Hereford 201; 7. Levelland 233; 8. Borger 237; 9. Brownwood 248; 10. Big Spring 248

Girls Individual Results

1. Avery Brown, Canyon (11:51); 2. Sierra Sanchez, Randall (12:00); 3. Abree Winfrey, Canyon (12:27); 4. Hailey Roberson, Randall (12:32); 5. Sarai Chavez, Dumas (12:32.8); 6. Yahaira Lujan, Dumas (12:38); 7. Mia Lujan, Dumas (12:41); 8. Elliot Jackson, West Plains (12:47); 9. Alex Pinter, Randall (12:49), 10. Elyse Santiago, Monahans (12:50).