Sierra Invitational

The only meet of any note this week was the Sierra Invitational this past Saturday at Legion Park in Modesto. Thirteen schools from Stanislaus County participated, although it should be said that heavy weights Downey and Modesto ran but a fraction of their athletes. Given that, there were some interesting and predictable results.

Some notes on the non-varsity races...Josue Perez (Modesto), Sonia and Hilda's brother won the Frosh race. He will likely be the top cat at MoHi in the years to come. That may not be enough because it was Gregori with the Frosh boys team edge. Pitman Frosh girls placed 5 in the top 11 for the large schools. The balance of XC power may shift in the future of  the city of Turlock.

Medina

VARSITY BOYS

Mario Medina (Gregori) placed 2nd in a more than respectable time and appeared as if he held back. It was the Gregori boys again flexing to beat all the local teams (and that was without 2 of their top 4 runners--Jonathan Alcantara DNF and Jeremy Hart must sit out to Oct 6th because he transferred). They have up front talent and depth. If they can stay healthy they should ease through the MMC and make a serous run at State.

2. Mario Medina (Gregori) 17:06
5. Anthony Arauza (Gregori) 17:20
9. Isaiah Aguilar (Oakdale) 17:30
18. Javier Lara (Turlock) 18:04
19. Michael Keith (Enochs) 18:07
21. Blake Faria (Enochs) 18:09
22. Octavio Padilla (Oakdale) 18:14
24. Brian Mendez-Martinez (Turlock) 18:16
26. Rick Ortega (Gregori) 18:20
31. Antonio Venegas (Patterson) 18:29
33. Jaspreet Sanghera (Enochs) 18:31
37. Ramon Bravo (Enochs) 18:42
38. Jakob Maravilla (Gregori) 18:43
39. Thomas Virgen (Patterson) 18:44
41. John Puffer (Pitman) 18:44
42. William Anderson (Turlock) 18:45
43. Amaury Querones (Gregori) 18:46
44. Nick sanders (Gregori) 18:46
49. Erik Sousa (Turlock) 18:52
50. Ara Moosekian (Turlock) 18:52
51. Juan Ortega (Gregori) 18:53
52. Thi Bui (Enochs) 18:54

As you can see, for local teams this was basically a tri meet between 3 of the top five county teams (excluding MoHi, holding out their top runners; and Riverbank who was not competing). Gregori was missing two of their top 4 and they still easily handled the other two teams.

If I include the Riverbank times over the same course in TVL #1 it is possible to compare the RBK Bruins against the other three teams. I can already hear Coach Woods saying that this isn't a fair comparison...well it really isn't an apples to oranges comparison...it is more like comparing tangerines to oranges--and it may it as close a comparison that is possible until the sub-section meet. So if I throw RBK into the mix here are the results:
GREGORI--1, 4, 9, 13, 15, 16, 20 = 42pts
RIVERBANK--2, 3, 10, 17, 24 = 56pts
ENOCHS--6, 7, 11, 12, 21 = 57pts
TURLOCK--5, 8, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23 = 64pts

This Wednesday we'll see how MoHi fits into the mix.

VARSITY GIRLS

Maravilla

Torrey Maravilla (Gregori) was the top local finisher. But it was the tide of Turlock girls swamping all of the local competition. Also of note Grace Davis has a top notch frosh girl harking back to the pre-Gregori days: Ocean Goldman is already poised to be in the top 10 in the MMC. Gregori was missing #1 Mya Torres (who was ill); but even with her they will need runners 3, 4, and 5 to step up or they will be rolled by MoHi on Wednesday.

Goldman

9. Torrey Maravilla (Gregori) 21:31
10. Arianna Lara Chavez (Turlock) 21:42
16. Ocean Goldman (Grace Davis) 22:03
18. Hailey Rodriguez-Delaney (Enochs) 22:18
19. Makenzie Salyer (Turlock) 22:25
21. Anna Perrone (Oakdale) 22:28
25. Amanda Medina (Turlock) 22:40
27. Kyannah Hernandez (Oakdale) 22:51
29. Cassie Derdivanis (Turlock) 23:08
30. Raveena Samra (Turlock) 23:14
31. Maria Varela (Turlock) 23:15
35. Erin Knopp Sargoni (Turlock) 23:26
39. Nina Shani (Pitman) 23:34
44. Dailene Perez (Modesto) 23:58
46. Tierrey Hermann (Gregori) 24:01
47. Meghan Hopkins (Turlock) 24:03
51. Sierra Schaaf (Gregori) 24:21
55. Jennifer Cisneros (Ceres) 24:33
56. Emily Cariaso (Pitman) 24:45

Turlock's #4-7 runners

Just like the boys it is possible to compare Riverbank to Turlock using the results from TVL #1. Surprisingly it is Turlock coming out on top 27 to 33 in a head to head dual meet.

TURLOCK--2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 = 27
RIVERBANK--1, 3, 6, 11, 12 = 33


RESULTS

PHOTOS (Varsity)
PHOTOS (F/S and JV)