The distance runners of Downey, Gregori, Modesto HS, Hughson, Pitman, and Turlock took to the red oval at Turlock HS to test their winter conditioning at the Pitman Distance Wars. Although many of the races were dominated by non StanCo schools, there were several notable early season marks.
800m
4-Jose Soto (Turlock) 2:05.22
7-Gali Farias (Turlock) 2:06.61
12-Juan Ortega (Gregori) 2:09.42
13-Adrian Rodriguez (Turlock) 2:09.58
Frosh Julia Handy had a strong opening mark to begin her track career.
5-Julia Handy (Turlock) 2:34.55
6-Victoreya Maravilla (Gregori) 2:36.85
7-Bianca Garcia (Turlock) 2:39. 05
10-Esmeralda Aguayo (Downey) 2:42.93
11-Erika Martinez (Downey) 2:43.66
1600m
3-Jonathan Alcantara (Gregori) 4:47.39
12-Leo Pando (Modesto) 4:50.44
14-Marc Alania (Modesto) 4:50.58
17-Anthony Arauza (Gregori) 4:54.83
20-Eric Alvarez (Turlock) 4:46.15
Modesto's junior Savannah Mendoza turned in the only 1600m mark of note.
7-Savannah Mendoza (Modesto) 5:56.34
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| Mario Medina (courtesy of Greg Beliera) |
The best individual StanCo mark was turned in by Gregori's Mario Medina who won the 3200.
1-Mario Medina (Gregori) 10:12.68
4- John Puffer (Pitman) 10:34.79
5-Daniel Yanez (Hughson) 10:36.57
6-Luis Orendain (Modesto) 10:47.78
10. Jared Williams (Hughson) 10:53.97
On the girls side their were very limited entries
3-Sonia Perez 13:33.51
DMR
The girls' DMR may have produced the race of the night. Sonora's team led by Cassie Land who had already won the 800m and the 1600m would square off against a foursome from MMC XC champion Downey. (all 4 Downey runners had yet to run a race on this evening).
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| Land outlasts Names in the DMR (courtesy of Greg Beliera) |
Hayley Osgood led off for Downey running the 1200m in a great early season time of 4:14. She completed her leg giving Meghann Lofling a 20-30m lead. Lofling circled the 400m in 66 sec (her first ever track race). Downey still led by about 20 m. Makaelyn Bickel took the baton and clocked 2:43 in the 800m (also her first track race ever). Lofling was overtaken by Kiana Clay (Pitman) who blazed a 2:29.3 800m leg. Pitman and Downey held a more than 10 sec lead over Sonora going into the anchor. Arielle Names anchored Downey in the 1600m (and to stay with the theme, it was also her first ever track race). Names was instructed to begin conservatively. Sonora's Land caught Names by the 800m mark. Names and Land dropped the Turlock or Pitman?? runner soon after. The pace continued to increase with Names clocking a 72 sec last lap and a 5:36 leg in the close, but losing effort.A very impressive 5:21 split capped an incredible triple by Land. It was a great beginning to the season by a very young Downey girls team and an even younger Sonora squad.
1-Sorora 13:40.11
2-Downey 13:41.47
RESULTS
PHOTO (courtesy of Greg Beliera)
TOM MOORE RELAYS (Sierra HS)
StanCo was represented by Gregori, Riverbank, Hughson, Central Catholic, and Johansen at this meet.
800m
4-Kim Ruvalcaba (Riverbank) 2:35.81
5-Victoreya Maravilla (Gregori) 2:36.72
6. Heavyn Herroz (Hughson) 2:37.73
For to boys the fastest StanCo time was in the F/S race
3-Josue Esquivel (Hughson) 2:11.32
The fastest Varsity time was
10-Ruben Paredez (Riverbank) 2:12.59
1600m
9. Stephanie Bernal 5:58.52
Again for the boys the fastest time was in the F/S race
2-Santiago Ruiz (Gregori) 4:43.11
DMR
For the girls Riverbank was the top StanCo team. Although sightly slower, their mark would have been competitive with the Downey time at Pitman. Too bad they didn't run in the same race.
3-Riverbank 13:47.35
On the boy's side Gregori clocked an impressive sub 11 min tin (that still would have lost to Merced by 15 secs the night before)
1-Gregori 1:59.54
RESULTS
DEAN ANDREESSEN CLASSIC (Golden Valley HS)
The county banner was represented by Downey, Denair, Central Valley, Ceres, and Patterson at this meet.
1600m
For the girls XC star Ventura had a solid day
2-Guadalupe Ventura (Patterson) 5:53.52
On the boys side Venegas turned in some good times too
4-Antonio Venegas (Patterson) 4:46.52
1800m
5-Antonio Venegas (Patterson) 2:11.05
8-Isaac Leon (Ceres) 2:15.52
3200m
1-Guadalupe Ventura (Patterson) 12:54.85
2-Thomas Virgen (Patterson) 10:54.86
RESULTS
On a personal note...Friday was the first major local meet that I have missed in 6 years. I was sick most of the week without a voice. I certainly could have gone to the meet Friday night (as I had planned to), but I felt that my health was more important. I would like to personally thank Greg Beliera for taking another set of high quality images of the meet. Additionally a big thank you to Coach paulo for his first-hand run down of the DMR race.
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