This week's "Upcoming Races"

There are no "Runners of the Week" this week as I doubled up during a very busy Week 4. There was a mark of note though.

Virgen at Pacific Tiger

Honorable Mentions: Tomas Virgen 12 (Patterson) won the VB dual race against Pacheco and was the fastest StanCo competitor at the Pacific Tiger Inv.


UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF RACES
Wed 9/28 MMC 2 at Dry Creek/East LaLoma Park, Modesto; competing StanCo schools are Beyer, Davis, Downey, Enochs, Gregori, Johanson, and Modesto. What am I looking for? This is essentially home turf for the Knights so they should win VG even more easily than Cluster 1; on the VB side will MoHi be able to rebound against Gregori after losing Cluster 1.
Wed 9/28 TVL 2 at Legion Park, Modesto: competing StanCo schools are Riverbank and Hughson (I think that the SL schools are now running their own meets. What am I looking for? honestly I think both the TVL and SL suffer from the splitting of their meets...Can anyone catch the Hughson boys or girls teams? I think not.
Wed 9/28 Patterson at Ceres at River Bluff Park in Ceres; competing StanCo schools are Ceres and Patterson. Tomas Virgen should win easily but on the team side it should be close in both boys and girls
Thur 9/29 SL 2 at Legion Park, Modesto; competing StanCo schools are Denair, Orestimba, and Waterford). I am interested in how this league will do running it's first XC meet (ever?) Delhi should have a cakewalk in the VB race, but in girls I have no idea.
Sat 10/1 Artichoke Inv at Half Moon Bay HS; competing StanCo teams are Turlock, Pitman, Gregori, Enochs, Grace Davis, Riverbank, and Modesto. What am I looking for? It is alway interesting to see how some of the runners from different StanCo schools fair against each other on a neutral course.
Sat 10/1 Stanford Inv at the Stanford University Golf Course; Competing StanCo teams are Downey, Modesto, (there may be more) What am I looking for? How will the Downey girls fair against REAL competition? The same goes for the experienced MoHi boys.