Claire Rawlins trailed Basic’s Raquel Chavez for much of the race, but stayed within striking distance to the end. She then raced past Chavez and held off Sierra Vista’s Sarriah Brown to win the 3.1-mile race in 19 minutes, 16 seconds.
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Vangeli Zimmerman was 3-0 in singles on Thursday to lift Spring Valley’s boys tennis team to a 15-3 home victory over Tech.
Addison Thummel won the final singles set for Foothill’s girls tennis team on Thursday to clinch a 10-8 home win over Basic.
Puskas surged to the lead entering the final mile and held off the rest of the field to finish the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 25.7 seconds, for her biggest cross country win of a still-young prep career.
After splitting their 18 regulation sets, the teams also split six tiebreaker games, but the Diamondbacks outscored the Wolves, 34-32 in the tiebreaker games to clinch the win.
Ariana Stanciu finished 2-0 in singles to propel Sierra Vista’s girls tennis team to an 11-7 road victory over Silverado on Friday afternoon.