May, Hayaiw breeze to capture Mount Sentinel stop on Cross Country circuit
By The Nelson Daily Sports
Micah May of L.V. Rogers and Taylen Hayaiw of Mount Sentinel won for the second time in as many races as the West Kootenay High School Cross Country circuit made a stop Wednesday in South Slocan.
Mount Sentinel hosted the second race on the circuit at Slocan Pools course near FortisBC facility in South Slocan.
May topped the Senior Boy’s division, edging teammate Kieran Marchand by more than a minute.
May finished the 5.5 kilometer course in a time of 15 minutes, 47 seconds.
Third in the race was Darian Johnson of LVR followed by Tibo Kohlmel.
Aley Sukra of Salmo was fifth while Romel Butt of J.V. Humphries in Kaslo was sixth.
Malte Liedtloe of LVR, Logan Rexan of Mount Sentinel and Martin Outearano of LVR rounded out the top ten.
In the Senior Girls race, Hayaiw narrowly won the race by 33 seconds over Naomi Perkins of LVR.
Hayaiw finished the race in a time of 21:03.
Kolibri Drobisk of New Denver was third in the division followed by Rosie Velisek of Mount Sentinel in fourth.
Elsa Hayaiw was fifth and Sydney Zimmer of LVR was sixth.
In Junior Boy’s race, Matti Erikson of Trafalgar won for the second race ahead of Tanner Randa of Mount Sentinel second and Adam Kurch of Trafalgar third.
Devon Duericher of New Denver was fourth while Bailey Rollick of Salmo was fifth.
Avie Waterfall and Kiera Taylor of Trafalgar finished one-two in the Junior Girl’s race
Sakura Azzorpardi and Amelre Treman, both of New Denver, took third and fourth spots.
Chelsea Ginther of Salmo was fifth.
The circuit shifts to LVR in Nelson for the next race Wednesday.
