RUNNING: Glacier's Hill places 22nd at Foot Locker Cross Country national championships

SAN DIEGO — It wasn’t the race she was looking for.

Glacier sophomore Annie Hill fell behind and couldn’t make up time, finishing 22nd at the Foot Locker Cross Country national championships on Saturday morning at Balboa Park. It was the first loss of the season for Hill, who finished more than a minute behind the leaders in 18 minutes, 18.9 seconds in the 5,000-meter race.

“It didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to,” Hill said. “I don’t really know. It just didn’t add up today. I just had a bad race.”

Virginia’s Weini Kelati, who entered the race with the fastest qualifying mark after a blazing victory in the Southern regional, won the girls race in 17:09.7.

Hill was the third-fastest sophomore in the race and the fourth-best finisher from the West.

Virginia’s Drew Hunter won the boys race, finishing the 5,000-meter run in 14:55.70.

Hunter, who hails from Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville and Kelati, from Heritage High School in Leesburg, are the first pair to sweep the race from the same county, their high schools sitting 11 miles apart in Loudoun County, Virginia. They are only the second pair to win from the same state, following California’s AJ Acosta and Jordan Hasay in 2005.