{"id":800106,"date":"2019-10-05T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T00:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372562"},"modified":"2019-10-05T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T00:53:44","slug":"summit-freshman-remeikis-breaks-school-record-at-pat-amato-classic-staberg-nearly-sets-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-freshman-remeikis-breaks-school-record-at-pat-amato-classic-staberg-nearly-sets-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit freshman Remeikis breaks school record at Pat Amato Classic, Staberg nearly sets PR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Summit High School varsity boys cross country team huddle at Friday evening’s Pat Amato Classic in North Glenn, where the Tigers finished in a strong sixth-place.<\/strong>
Ian Hans \/ Special to The Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Summit High freshman runner Dom Remeikis re-wrote a portion of the Tigers record book Friday evening as the boys and girls cross-country teams ran to 6th- and 16th-place finishes at the highly-competitive Pat Amato Classic in Northglenn.<\/p>\n

Remeikis\u2019 time of of 16 minutes and 54.42 seconds was the fastest of any freshman in the huge 298-athlete varsity boys race at the Open Spaces cross-country course in Northglenn. The 33rd-place time, which earned the Tiger boys 33 points in the 43-school varsity boys race, also was the fastest freshman time on a 5,000-meter cross-country course in the school\u2019s history and the first time a Summit freshman has ever broken 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all really proud of him,\u201d Summit senior Grace Staberg said. \u201cI think we weren\u2019t that surprised, because in the past he\u2019s always been close to (Summit seniors) Max (Bonenberger) and Jeremiah (Vaille). He has so much potential. As a freshman, he can do some great things in the next three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senior trio of Staberg, Bonenberger and Vaille also led Summit on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the 278-athlete girls race, Staberg nearly broke her own personal-record time. Her pace of 18:49 was just one second behind the personal record she set earlier this year at the Liberty Bell Invitational<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Staberg described Friday\u2019s race as one of the most interesting yet this season. She said the Pat Amato Classic is a good preparation race for regionals and states later this month, as runners from all different school sizes and divisions from across the state compete in one large competition.<\/p>\n

Staberg said she felt good going into the race, which she led for about the first mile. The senior said she decided to run out to the start of the pack after she looked down at her watch and saw a 6-minute-mile pace, slower than her usual speed. Though she knew she may not be able to keep the lead, she knew the pace would speed the pack up, helping her to challenge for a personal record.<\/p>\n

Staberg ended up running her first mile in 5:23, much faster than she usually goes out in races. <\/p>\n

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Summit senior Grace Staberg leads the pack of racers early in the 5,000-meter varsity girls race at the Pat Amato Classic in North Glenn on Friday.<\/strong>
Christine Staberg \/ Special to The Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

With the strong start, Staberg was on pace for a record. But halfway through the race, Staberg and the rest of the lead pack took a slight, 5-second detour after the biker serving as the race\u2019s rabbit got out of sight. In the end, Staberg\u2019s 11th place finish earned the Tigers 11 points and gave her confidence that her goal of qualifying for states is within reach. Thus far this season, Staberg has been running about 90 seconds faster than her 5,000-meter times last fall, when she missed states qualification by just a few spots.<\/p>\n

In the boys race, Remeikis was joined in the top 35 by Summit\u2019s top finisher Bonenberger (21st place, 16:35.17) and runner-up Vaille (27th, 16:45.44). <\/p>\n

Vaille said with all of the competition in Friday\u2019s race, it was much harder to keep a lead spot. Unlike Staberg, Vaille paced himself slower after a fast first mile. He and Bonenberger were both still able to break the 17-minute mark.<\/p>\n

Both are on pace for their two primary goals toward the end of the season. The first: To help earn enough top finishes and points for Summit at the Oct. 17 regional meet to qualify the Tiger boys, as a team, to the Oct. 26 state meet for the first time in years. The second, if and when they qualify, is for both to finishing top-10 in their divisional race at states.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to see if that can happen,\u201d Vaille said.<\/p>\n

Behind the trio of Bonenberger, Vaille and Remeikis, the Tigers boys earned the strong sixth-place finish at the Pat Amato via senior Paul Hans (60th, 17:20.91) and freshman Zach McBride (118th, 18:03.52). Summit\u2019s top five varsity boys runners totaled 258 points, just behind Western Slope rival Battle Mountain (244). Los Alamos High School won the meet with 94 points.<\/p>\n

In the girls race, Staberg was joined in the Tigers\u2019 varsity top-5 by junior Alice Wescott (96th, 21:13.61), freshman Logan Reid (137th, 22:10.56), freshman Paige Wescott (151st, 22:22.37) and sophomore Aubree Confer (165th, 22:38.63). Reid and Confer\u2019s times were personal records, as was the time of Summit sophomore Kaelin Love (168th, 22:43.85).<\/p>\n

The Tigers boys and girls will next run on Wednesday at the Rifle Golf Course in Rifle, before turning attention to regionals and states to end the month, and season.<\/p>\n

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Members of the Summit High School boys cross country team, led by Max Bonenberger (left) race out at the start of Friday evening\u2019s Pat Amato Classic in North Glenn.<\/strong>
Ian Hans \/ Special to The Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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