Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Lytle Head Coach Gilbert Ruiz continues to positively challenge his band of runners as he shuttled his teams to Class 6A San Antonio Steele’s Cross Country Invitational this past Saturday.
His runners more than accepted the challenge as the Pirates placed second overall in the team standings with all five runners finishing in the top 20 of 95 competitors while the Lady Pirates fared well also placed third overall with three runners netting top 20 status among 74 runners in their division.
“I told our kids this past week if they wanted to get noticed, they needed to go catch a big fish. In order to catch a big fish, they need to go to the deep end and that meant taking our ship deep sea fishing. And so off we went to 6A Steele HS for the first time to try and get people to take notice, and by the end of the meet, we did get just that!”
Johnny Rey Alvarez, Bryan Montes-Rodriguez, Yandel Esquivez, Diego Reyna, and Lucas Salazar all medaled while Frances Scotello, Svetlana Lopez, Elyse Cortinas, Kaycee Galindo, Addison Wagner, Klayre Cook, Annika Robles, and Sophia Herrera teamed up for an extremely nice showing as well.
The JV boys pulled out a team victory as Nathan Garza, Adrian Reyna, Michael Scotello, Sebastian Garcia, Jaden Castro, Anthony Scotello, and Emiliano Cardenas scored a team-low 32 points while JV Lady Pirates Andrea Gomez and Payton Devaney also competed well.
Varsity girl team rank
1st Brandeis 38, 2nd Taft 49, 3rd Lytle 82, 4th Steele 97, 5th Boerne 98, 6th Clemons 170, 7th Christ the King Corpus Christi 209, 8th MacArthur 217, 9th George West 244.
Lady Pirate results (of 74)
3rd Frances Scotello 17:07, 19th Svetlana Lopez 18:33, 20th Elyse Cortinas 18:48, 24th Kaycee Galindo 19:09, 28th Addison Wagner 19:33, 32nd Klayre Cook 19:46, 39th Annika Robles 20:28.1, 40th Sophia Herrera 20:28.8.
Varsity boy team rank
1st Clemons 33, 2nd Lytle 66, 3rd Boerne 74, 4th Holmes 77, 5th Brandeis 79, 6th Steele 142, 7th Taft 165, 8th Judson 197, 9th Corpus Christi Carroll 204, 10th MacArthur 224, 11th Devine 242, 12th Corpus Christi King 368.
Pirate results (of 95)
7th Johnny Rey Alvarez 14:40, 8th Bryan Montes-Rodriguez 14:46, 13th Yandel Esquivez 15:03, 18th Diego Reyna (N/A), 19th Lucas Salazar 15:14.
JV Lady Pirate results (of 73)
19th Andrea Gomez 22.29, 32nd Payton Devaney 23:58.
JV boy team rank
1st Lytle 32, 2nd Holmes 59, 3rd Brandeis 62, 4th Clemons 112, 5th Boerne 122, 6th Devine 137, 7th MacArthur 140.
JV Pirate results (of 71)
3rd Nathan Garza 16:13, 4th Adrian Reyna 16:21, 6th Michael Scotello 16:46, 7th Sebastian Garcia 16:52, 12th Jaden Castro 17:32, 49th Anthony Scotello 20:23, 57th Emiliano Cardenas 21:36.
Next up
Lytle makes its closest venture of the season and Ruiz encourages everyone to see his troops in action at Medina Valley this Saturday.