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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
XC girls primed for district meet
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
The Sisters Outlaws girls
cross-country team tuned up
for the Oregon West District
Championships with a meet
on the beautiful Creekside
Golf Course in Salem on
Wednesday, October 23.
Ella Thorsett and Kate
Bowen each had breakout
races. Thorsett, fellow fresh-
man Olive Nye of Bend
High and senior Hannah
Hernandez of Philomath
broke away from the field
early and battled throughout
the hilly, tree-lined course.
Nye got the win in 18:15.9
with Thorsett on her heels
in 18:19.1. Hernandez came
through in 18:30.
For Thorsett, it was not
only the fastest time of her
career, but the first time in
three meetings she placed
ahead of Hernandez, who
until Wednesday had been
the top runner in the Oregon
West Conference. The pair
are likely to lock horns
again at District Saturday,
November 2.
Beyond that, Thorsett now
owns the top time among all
4A girls along with Anika
Thompson of Junction City,
who ran basically the same
time (18:19.8) on the same
day at a different meet.
<Ella is a competitor,
plain and simple,= said Head
Coach Josh Nordell. <She ran
a smart race strategically and
just keeps getting faster.=
Bowen, who finished sev-
enth at state last year, two
places behind Hernandez, ran
her fastest 5,000 meters since
moving to Oregon in early
2018 on her way to sixth
place in 19:06.7.
<It was so good to see
Kate get back into her best
running,= said Nordell. <She
and Ella run stride for stride
in our hardest workouts, so
I knew the time would come
when pieces would start to
fall into place for her again.
It9s been a while since we9ve
seen her smile after a race.=
The results for the rest
of the Outlaws scorers in
the race was a bit mixed.
Local woman wins
drawing contest
PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG
Heart 8n Home Hospice
worked with local assisted-
living facilities to hold a fall
drawing contest.
The organization chose
a winner to use their art for
Thanksgiving cards this year.
The winner is Carol Crisler,
who lives at The Lodge in
Sisters.
<Our hope in providing
an activity to residents such
as this will help improve
cognitive and sensory-motor
functions, foster self-esteem
and self-awareness, enhance
social skills, and provide an
opportunity to affirm some-
one9s talent and life,= said
Kandice Dickinson of Heart
8n Home. <Congratulations,
Carol!=
Ella Thorsett keeping pace with Philomath’s Hannah Hernandez at the
Creekside Invitational. Thorsett got the best of Hernandez for the first
time on her way to second place in the meet.
Number-three runner Emma
Singleton struggled a bit due
to a lingering sickness and
finished well below her best
with a time of 22:15, just
behind Pearl Gregg, who ran
a season-best of 22:11.
Skylar Wilkins ran a per-
sonal record of 22:34 and
Sadie Sharp came through the
line four places later in 22:49.
Iris Diez ran a season best
as the seventh runner for
the team, clocking 23:40.1.
Annie Cohen ran 23:17 in the
junior varsity race to earn the
seventh spot on the roster for
District.
As a team the Outlaws
placed seventh, right in the
middle of the pack of four-
teen complete teams, tally-
ing 150 points. Bend High
won the meet with 74 points,
while Philomath, the second-
ranked 4A girls team, placed
second with 83.
Stayton, the other Oregon
West team in the meet, placed
sixth with 128 points.
<Overall, we did well and
the girls know what they
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Carol Crisler (with certificate) won a drawing contest sponsored by Heart
‘n Home Hospice. Crisler lives at The Lodge in Sisters.