Lady Tigers 8th at invitational

The Bob Firman Invitational Cross Country meet draws teams from all over, and Saturday's meet at Eagle Island State Park had over 90 teams and over 3,000 runners competing.

The Mountain Home girls cross country team did well, finishing eighth out of 27 teams in the varsity competition. Jordan Vivier led the Mountain Home girls with a 19th place effort, with a personal best of 20:37. Haley Schaefer finished 41st (21:40.52), Sarah Richens came in 60th with a new personal best (22:07.04), Kacee Cameron ran 84th (22:46.6), Ashley Mayberry was 92nd (22:52.8) and Jennica Quintal came in 151 (25:27.8). Tiana Svetkovich ran in the JV race, running 27:17.24.

"The team ran extremely well," said Tiger cross country coach Doug Root. "Most everyone ran seasonal bests, with many running personal bests. The girls placed eighth out of 27 teams in the large school division, which are schools of more than 800 students. I broke the boys up so my sophomores and freshmen could run with runners from their own age, and they had good times."

Mountain Home ran just three runners in the varsity boys race.

Dylan Johnson finished 56th, Jovanne Carrizales came in 132nd (19:00) and Gavin Cline came in 145th (19:15) with his best time of the season.

Joe Gutierrez finished eighth in the JV boys race, running an 18:06. Tim Sieber ran a personal best 20:04, Taylor Croft ran a 20:41, Perry Savage ran a personal best 21:21 and Aaron Menhart ran a 21:34.

Shelby McHugh had a new best time of 23:18, which placed her ninth in the freshman girls race. Starley Dodge had a new person best time of 29:15, which placed her 47th.

Jon Dodge ran his season best (20:06) in finishing 31st in the freshman boys race. Ruben Gaytan was 38th with his personal best time of 20:20, Doug Watkins (22:27) had his best time, placing 73rd, Daniel Courtright also had his best time (22:33) in his 76th-place effort and James McGovern finished 80th (22:53).

The Tiger harriers are in Twin Falls today to run in the Twin Falls Classic.