Valley runners conquer Crow Pass, earn titles

PALMER — A pair of Valley runners recorded wins during the 31st annual Crow Pass Crossing Saturday.

Colony High School graduate Allan Spangler and Palmer’s Christy Marvin won the men’s and women’s titles respectively. The wins marked the first Crow Pass title for each runner.

Spangler recorded the fifth-fastest time in race history, with his mark of 3 hours, 1 minute and 44 seconds. Marvin nearly broke the women’s record, notching a time of 3:26:44. Marvin finished a mere 24 seconds shy of breaking a 24-year-old record held by nine-time Cross Pass champion Nancy Pease.

The annual race covers about 24 miles of the Crow Pass Trail, starting just north of Girdwood. The finish line is at the Eagle River Nature Center. The course has a peak elevation gain of 3,888 feet.

A total of 110 men and 36 women finished the race.

In the men’s race, Spangler finished about five minutes ahead of runner-up Silas Talbot. A.J. Schirack of Wasilla was fifth with a time of 3:13:23 and Cody Priest of Palmer finished seventh at 3:16:51, in the men’s race.

Marvin owned more than a 20-minute lead in the women’s race. Jessica Vetsch (3:49:59. finished second and Jaime Bronga (3:52:04. was third.

For complete results, see frontiersman.com/sports.

2014 Crow Pass Crossing

Women’s individual results:

1. Christy Marvin 3:26:44.4; 2. Jessica Vetsch 3:49:59.7; 3. Jaime Bronga 3:52:04.3; 4. Jane Boer 4:01:10.1; 5. Christie Haupert 4:01:51.0; 6. Lia Slemons 4:07:28.1; 7. Greer Gehler 4:10:22.3; 8. Guerin Platte 4:11:42.5; 9. Ginny Kinnebrew 4:22:29.3; 10. Chrissy May 4:24:18.0; 11. Shawn McTaggart 4:26:22.7; 12. Maya Radonich 4:26:50.4; 13. Melanie Stiassny 4:30:53.2; 14. Amber McDonough 4:33:03.6; 15. Laura McDonough 4:37:18.5; 16. Mariah Graham 4:37:29.0; 17. Hannah Brown 4:43:02.9; 18. Tammy Weaver 4:45:54.9; 19. Kristina Eaton 4:46:50.9; 20. Jennifer Baker 4:48:45.6; 21. Emily Evans 4:54:11.8; 22. Michelle Dickson 5:00:53.9; 23. Ellyn Brown 5:01:33.6; 24. Nina Schwinghammer 5:14:51.8; 25. Shannon Casey 5:15:31.8; 26. Susan Casey 5:15:32.1; 27. Margaret Williams 5:16:56.7; 28. Michelle Fabry 5:18:03.4; 29. Clare Cook 5:21:09.8; 30. Beth Paynter 5:21:47.5; 31. Amara Liggett 5:22:46.0; 32. Juli Adelman 5:35:56.7; 33. Kristin Wood 5:35:57.0; 34. Kristen Hansen 5:45:46.9; 35. Michelle Suber 5:50:01.4; 36. Amy deSchweinitz 6:20:10.6.

Men’s individual results:

1. Allan Spangler 3:01:44.5; 2. Silas Talbot 3:06:50.0; 3. Matt Shryock 3:09:26.5; 4. Sam Tilly 3:11:40.0; 5. AJ Schirack 3:13:23.8; 6. Matias Saari 3:15:05.8; 7. Cody Priest 3:16:51.1; 8. Evan Hone 3:18:30.1; 9. Willie Stoll 3:18:46.4; 10. Kenneth Brewer 3:21:08.2; 11. Jonathan Kreiss-Tonkins 3:22:42.7; 12. Harlow Robinson 3:25:15.1; 13. Ben Marvin 3:26:04.5; 14. Christopher Clark 3:28:22.1; 15. Laron Thomas 3:28:48.5; 16. Patrick Stinson 3:31:41.3; 17. Derek Gibson 3:33:32.7; 18. Brad Benter 3:34:42.4; 19. Tom Bronga 3:34:54.0; 20. Jim McDonough 3:34:58.3; 21. Adam Jensen 3:36:54.6; 22. Miles Knotek 3:38:26.7; 23. David Apperson 3:38:35.6; 24. Joe Nyholm 3:38:55.3; 25. Andrew Dougherty 3:39:50.4; 26. Nathaniel Knapp 3:40:44.5; 27. Bill Pearson 3:44:09.2; 28. Alan Adams 3:45:15.3; 29. Soren Wuerth 3:46:37.3; 30. Lance Kopsack 3:47:47.3; 31. Matt Green 3:48:55.4; 32. Robert Witter 3:49:29.6; 33. Tully Labelle-Hamer 3:49:54.4; 34. Brian Pantzke 3:54:43.0; 35. Scott Gage 3:56:03.1; 36. Travis Peltier 3:56:29.2; 37. John Naylor 3:56:41.8; 38. Ben Spies 3:57:10.3; 39. Aaron Ostrovsky 4:02:15.2; 40. Joshua Allely 4:02:25.0; 41. Nicholas Goura 4:03:51.4; 42. Dorian Gross 4:05:03.4; 43. Mike Brock 4:06:34.7; 44. Mike Heatwole 4:06:46.5; 45. Kevin Knotek 4:09:19.7; 46. Justin Hickel 4:10:43.3; 47. Mike Schroeder 4:11:40.5; 48. Michael Gjere 4:15:03.5; 49. Jeremey Weber 4:18:10.4; 50. Shaun Debenham 4:19:08.0; 51. William Timmons 4:19:56.5; 52. Derek Nottingham 4:20:23.8; 53. John Wirum 4:23:05.5; 54. Fred Hveding 4:24:05.6; 55. Gavin Kentch 4:24:49.9; 56. Garrett McKee 4:25:48.6; 57. David Stanfield 4:26:10.1; 58. Michael Quimby 4:27:27.3; 59. Thomas Nenahlo 4:27:43.0; 60. Michael Bourdukstky 4:29:11.3; 61. Mark Brady 4:31:22.2; 62. WT Stille 4:31:25.8; 63. Jordan Bancroft 4:32:31.3; 64. Braun Kopsack 4:32:43.4; 65. Rick Hansen 4:34:07.7; 66. Matthew Anderson 4:35:02.8; 67. Bryan M. Anderson 4:35:54.6; 68. Mike Michner 4:36:55.6; 69. Jeremy Weaver 4:37:33.1; 70. Jeremy Felson 4:38:23.9; 71. Joel Brandt 4:38:47.4; 72. Chris Dankmeyer 4:41:24.3; 73. Chester Gilmore 4:42:14.6; 74. Joni Earp 4:42:52.8; 75. Peter Lamb 4:44:28.3; 76. Kevin Taylor 4:44:44.3; 77. Alexander Hone 4:47:04.9; 78. Ricky Pico 4:47:15.2; 79. Frederick Schlereth 4:47:20.1; 80. Mike Wahlig 4:48:17.7; 81. Marti Lindeke 4:49:18.1; 82. Connor Priest 4:49:23.2; 83. Patrick Lovely 4:50:27.9; 84. Leo Brown 4:51:39.7; 85. Nelson Priddy 4:54:12.6; 86. James Benkert 4:54:23.7; 87. Nathan Zeigler 4:55:54.9; 88. Matt Soule 5:00:26.3; 89. Jeff Dickson 5:00:37.9; 90. Sean Zumwalt 5:00:55.4; 91. Alex Hildebrand 5:05:33.0; 92. Bob Heinrich 5:06:55.0; 93. Brian Flemming 5:12:44.1; 94. Justin Hone 5:13:12.1; 95. Samuel Chamberlain 5:15:59.4; 96. Jose Gross 5:18:37.5; 97. Douglas Debenham 5:19:33.3; 98. Jared Kern 5:20:10.5; 99. Tom Paynter 5:21:47.3; 100. Jeffrey Stelter 5:22:54.9; 101. Scott Jones 5:23:09.1; 102. Jeffrey Kern 5:25:33.7; 103. Mark Malagodi 5:28:17.7; 104. Asher Heirley 5:35:19.4; 105. Keith Cook 5:37:14.1; 106. Jeff Maillovx 5:37:53.2; 107. James Ewing 5:42:26.4; 108. Daniel Ray 5:47:18.4; 109. Evan Steinhauser 5:48:17.6; 110. Roger Kemppell 5:50:37.6.