Summit exerted its long-standing dominance once again.

The Storm cross-country program won two team titles and two individual titles at the Intermountain Conference Championships on a frigid, windy and drizzly Wednesday afternoon at Big Sky Park in Bend.

Junior Sophia Capozzi won the girls championship and senior Hayden Boaz won the boys championship to help lead Summit to girls and boys team titles. The Caldera boys and girls teams also punched their tickets to the Class 5A state meet.

“It was a great day for Central Oregon cross-country,” said Summit coach Kari Strang. “Just an awesome day.”

The Summit girls, who will attempt to win their 16th straight state title on Nov. 9 at Lane Community College in Eugene, won with 23 team points, just ahead of Caldera’s 34 points.

The top 13 finishers were either a Storm or Wolfpack runner. Bend High finished third with 86 points, followed by Mountain View (118) and Ridgeview (139).

The 5,000-meter race on thick gravel trails and long grass was a two-runner race at the top with Capozzi and Caldera sophomore Maddie Carney running stride for stride. Capozzi pulled away from her good friend and cross-country ski partner during the final stretch to finish in 18 minutes, 32.5 seconds, just ahead of Carney’s time of 18:37.80.

“It was really nice to work with (Carney) the whole race,” Capozzi said. “But at the end I felt that I still had some energy left in me so I decided to go for it.”

All five of the Storm’s point-scorers finished in the top eight. Junior Eva Dicharry finished third (19:19.20), freshman Abigail Carpenter placed fifth (20:14.20), senior Daisy Arnold took sixth (20:17.40) and freshman Cassidy Carmichael was eighth (20:30.70).

“Our girls were really able to dig deep and work together,” Strang said. “I was blown away by how they ran today.”

With a second-place finish, the Caldera girls clinched a spot in the state meet for the second year in a row. All of the Wolfpack scorers finished in the top 12. Freshman Miley Morical finished fourth (19:42.30), senior Mia Koernig was seventh (20:27.10), senior Sage Cramp placed ninth (20:36.40) and sophomore Aspen Bradbury took 12th (21:00.10).

The past two years, Boaz finished second at the IMC Championships, but he finally broke through to claim the IMC title with a time of 15:38.0.

All he could do while crossing the finish line was shrug in celebration.

“That’s the first time I won this so it feels really good,” Boaz said. “The first mile I was conserving my energy, and was working with my teammates. Then I just decided to push it and see if they could hang. Then I got some separation and felt good until the finish. The last one (kilometer) I really pushed myself because I know at state I will definitely have to push myself to get in the top three.”

It was Boaz’s fifth win in as many races this fall, having won the Northwest Classic, the Nike Portland XC Invitational, the Oxford Classic and the Rose City Championship earlier in the season.

“It was a beautiful race,” Strang said. “For running as fast as he does, he makes it look effortless. It’s sort of like art in motion.”

All five of the Storm’s scoring runners finished in the top eight. Sophomore Bjorn Blankenship finished third (16:23.40), senior Ben Meier was fourth (16:40.30), sophomore Hudson Boaz placed seventh (17:04.60) and junior Cooper Bollom finished ninth (17:15.60).

The Storm finished with 24 team points, Caldera was second with 71 and Bend High took third with 82. Mountain View finished with 89 points, Ridgeview with 95 and Redmond with 190.

The Caldera boys team is also making back-to-back appearances at the 5A state meet. The Wolfpack were led by junior Mason Morical, who finished second in 16:13.10. Sophomore Nash Jackson (13th, 17:50.4), senior Luke Harris (15th, 17:53.10) and senior Ash McCown (20th, 18:14.4) posted top-20 finishes.

Two additional runners qualified as individuals for the state meet by finishing in the top seven of the boys race: Bend junior Finley Lyke (fifth, 16:50.50) and Ridgeview junior Nathan Liddell (sixth, 17:04.50).