The Summit High School mountain bike team continues to rack up wins in the early part of the season. 

After capturing its first Division 1 team title in program history last month, the Tigers traveled to Eagle to compete in its second race of the season — Haymaker Classic — on Saturday, Sept. 6. 

Similar to the team’s first race of the season on the Frisco Peninsula, Summit dominated the race in nearly every race division, securing the team’s second-consecutive win of the season. 

Senior Finn Brown led the team in points by taking sixth overall in the three-lap varsity boys race. Brown finished the race in a time of 1 hour, 4 minutes and 17.5 seconds. Brown finished behind series points leader Jake Sandau of Animas in first place (1:10:08.13). 

Junior Trent Granshaw finished 17th in the varsity boys race in a time of 1:20:21.39.

Senior Fiona Florio was able to put together an impressive performance in the varsity girls race. Florio crossed the finish line of the three-lap race in 1:36:17.20 to take 15th overall.  

Sophomore Marin Little continued her winning ways in the two-lap sophomore girls race. Coming off a first-place finish at the Frisco race, Little once again secured the top spot on the podium in Eagle, crossing the finish line in a time of 1:27:47.74. With the first-place finish, Little continues to be the points leader in the division. 

Not far behind, Little was Piper Rabinowitz. Rabinowitz took fifth overall in the sophomore girls race in a time of 1:33:47.89.

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Summit scored a wide swath of points in the freshman boys and girls race. Freshman Elliot Drumwright secured the highest finish among his ninth-grade teammates, finishing in second place overall in a time of 51:05.67.

Drumwright was narrowly beaten out by Taos Composite’s Rio Johnson who took first place in a time of 50:18.63. Summit put an additional two athletes within the top 10. Dillon Marts took ninth in a time of 55:12.15 and Benjamin Gervais finished in 10th in 55:28.32.

The Tigers put three cyclists within the top 10 of the freshman girls race. Lucy Greenwood took second overall in a time of 1:25:13.33. Greenwood was only beaten out by Ponderosa’s Kinley Griffith in first with a time of 1:24:30.23.

Maeve Niemkiewicz crashed into the top five by taking fourth overall in a time of 1:30:13.28 while Kita Riter finished in 10th (1:38:10.01). Kaia Riter finished just outside of the top 10 in 11th place in a time of 1:38:10.33.

In the junior varsity girls race, junior June Baniewicz led the results for the Tigers with a 12th-place finish (1:37:18.81). Junior Heidi Frey finished two places behind Baniewicz in 14th (1:37:20.50) with senior Kate Williams taking 18th (1:39:39.06).

Summit came together to score a total of 6,946 points to win the Division 1 team race at the Haymaker Classic. Chatfield finished in second with a total of 6,754 points with Montrose taking third with 6,390 points. 

Summit’s next race will be the Cloud City Challenge in Leadville on Sept. 21. The morning of racing is expected to begin at 8:30 a.m.