Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
The Lytle Cross Country teams got their feet wet this past weekend as they participated in the Pieper Ranch Relay Invitational. There were plenty of success stories from this one as the varsity Pirates finished 4th of 31 teams while the Lady Pirate varsity came in 7th of 20.
The JV Pirates took top honors as they were the team champs amongst 31 teams while the JV girls placed runner-up as 24 teams took the line in their race. The JV Pirate2 group placed 16th overall.
“It was a good way to start our season as we begin our long journey to try and get back to the UIL State meet and on that medal stand,” Head Coach Gilbert Ruiz stated afterwards. “Pieper was a relay style meet with 4 runners running a 1.5 mile loop and we look forward to our first traditional style meet in Floresville this Saturday.”
Varsity Boys
1st San Antonio Reagan 30:34.97, 2nd San Antonio Johnson1 30:53.03, 3rd San Antonio Johnson2 31:37.37, 4th Lytle 31:43.17 (Yandel Esquivez, Diego Reyna, Lucas Salazar, Johnny Alvarez), 5th Comal Pieper 33:13.57, 6th San Antonio Reagan 33:21.01, 7th San Marcos 33:48.72, 8th San Antonio Johnson3 33:52.19, 9th Northside Clark 34:03.43, 10th San Antonio Central Catholic 34:16.46.
JV Boys
1st Lytle1 34:32.29 (Adrian Reyna, Michael Scotello, Sebastian Garcia, Bryan Montes), 2nd San Antonio Johnson1 35:52.35, 3rd SA Veterans Memorial 36:46.14, 4th San Antonio Stacey 37:44.84, 5th San Antonio Reagan1 37:45.64, 6th San Antonio Reagan2 38:39.17, 7th 7 San Antonio Johnson2 38:43.45, 8th Comal Pieper1 38:53.49, 9th San Marcos 39:00.22, 10th Comal Pieper2 39:13.44, 16th Lytle2 (Nathan Garza, Anthony Scotello, Emiliano Cardenas, Jaden Castro).
Varsity Girls
1st San Antonio Johnson 36:54.91, 2nd San Antonio Reagan1 39:38.37, 3rd Comal Pieper 39:42.35, 4th Geronimo Navarro 39:45.27, 5th Northside Clark 40:31.39, 6th San Antonio Reagan 40:36.55, 7th Lytle 41:11.31 (Klayre Cook, Elyse Cortinas, Svetlana Lopez, Frances Scotello), 8th San Antonio Reagan2 41:18.43, 9th San Marcos 42:01.24, 10th Comal Pieper 42:08.17.
JV Girls
1st Bulverde Gloria Deo Academy 44:34.18, 2nd Lytle High School 44:39.80 (Annika Robles, Sophia Herrera, Addison Wagner, Kaycee Galindo), 3rd Comal Pieper 45:49.99, 4th San Antonio Reagan1 46:16.96, 5th Ozona1 46:36.93, 6th San Antonio Johnson1 48:09.86, 7th San Antonio Reagan2 48:11.67, 8th San Antonio Reagan3 48:36.22, 9th San Antonio Johnson2 49:34.82, 10th Ozona2 51:37.94.