{"id":800158,"date":"2019-10-07T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372627"},"modified":"2019-10-07T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:40:49","slug":"summit-jv-girls-cyclist-earns-conference-title-at-haymaker-classic-in-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-jv-girls-cyclist-earns-conference-title-at-haymaker-classic-in-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit JV girls cyclist earns conference title at Haymaker Classic in Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit Tigers Victoria Uglyar, center, and Samantha Hessel, far right, pose for a photo on the podium at Saturday’s Haymaker Classic conference championship in Eagle.<\/strong>
Linda Hessel \/ Summit Daily reader<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 Before the Summit High School mountain bike team raced at the Haymaker Classic conference championship Saturday in Eagle, head coach Fred Newcomer had something important to tell his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I had never seen a Tiger team this ready and well-prepared for conference finals and coming into states,\u201d Newcomer said.<\/p>\n

Summit proved its coach right, and the Tigers had several top 10 finishes pace the team\u2019s third-place finish. <\/p>\n

One of the team\u2019s highlights came in the JV girls race, as Summit sophomore Victoria Uglyar clinched a conference championship for the 2019 season.<\/p>\n

Uglyar put the exclamation point on her high school mountain bike season by finishing the two-lap, 47-cyclist race in 58 minutes and 50.45 seconds Saturday, sewing up the conference championship after finishing in second place at each race since the season began in August. Uglyar said her strong second-place showing on a dusty, hot course at the season-opening Frisco Bay Invitational gave her the confidence to aim for the North Division individual JV girls title.<\/p>\n

Heading into Saturday\u2019s race, Uglyar had the season points lead. Uglyar went out on the flat, fast 6-mile, 404-foot elevation gain course in the lead. Racing at about 7,000 feet, Uglyar set herself up well over the first lap before hanging on for the second and final lap to finish more than a half-minute ahead of third-place cyclist Keira Bond, of Fairview.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the Oct. 11-12 state races in Durango, Uglyar is excited to see if she can finish within the top six racers, as the best from the North and South divisions combine for the race.<\/p>\n

Uglyar earned the Tigers 530 points Saturday, their second-most behind sophomore Lasse Konecny (547).<\/p>\n

Konecny once again was the top sophomore cyclist in the North Division\u2019s highly competitive four-lap boys varsity race, rallying to finish in fourth place in the 46-cyclist race (1:37:29.36). The showing earned Konecny second place in this year\u2019s North Division seasonlong competition.<\/p>\n

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