The south SJS has never been a hot bed of distance running depth. However I have been touting for years that if all of the best teams and the best runners competed in their best events, the field would be strong and challenging; and the times would be fast. Unfortunately this event has conflicted every year with Bronco Distance Carnival, a premier event for distance runners in the SJS. This year the only StanCo or Merced team heading to Bronco is Riverbank. Additionally Merced HS bypassed their own County Championship (I am unsure of the rationale)...Losing RBK and Merced in the distance events is HUGE. Merced easily could have swept the three boys' events and RBK and Merced runners combined would have been favored in the girls' events.
UPDATE: more bad news for the distance competition at this meet--the Gregori Distance squad will be bypassing County Clash in favor of the Dublin Distance Fiesta. Merced is there too. Atwater is entered at Dublin. I am unsure if Atwater's runners will be competing in both events or only at Dublin.
So I lament and say again that if everyone stayed home and ran at County Clash I believe that the competition would be solid and the times would be fast.
With that said lets preview who should be running and how the two counties stack up against each other.
VG 800m
The top 7 qualifying times came from StanCo runners (and that was with defending champ Arielle Names running in the 400m). I would watch out for Salsig who ran that time out of the slow/first heat. Thrown in with everyone else she could take the title.
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| Osgood leads with 100m to go over Herroz and Young |
2. Haylee Osgood (Downey) 2:32.97
3. Hope Salsig (Turlock) 2:33.38
4. Kerry Young (Modesto) 2:33.62
5. Cassandra Derdivanis (Turlock) 2:35.52
6. Bianca Garcia (Pitman) 2:36.44
7. Makaelyn Bickel (Downey) 2:37.18
8. Clara Harman (Atwater) 2:37.73
9. Josette Vigil (Golden Valley) 2:38.26
10. Daisy Perez (Livingston) 2:38.27
VB 800m
Again 8 of the top 10 came from the StanCo meet on what was a cold night. Hopefully Friday will produce better times due to better weather. Farias may not be producing remarkable times but he has senior maturity and new found confidence
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| Farias pulling away from Esquivel |
2. Josue Esquivel (Hughson) 2:05.38
3. Kyle Brown (Oakdale) 2:06.28
4. Jonathan Hollcraft (Turlock) 2:06.77
5. Spencer Jacobs (Atwater) 2:07.94
6. Anthony Vazquez (Central Catholic) 2:08.62
7. Justin Crescenti (Oakdale) 2:08.95
8. Richard Turknett (Pitman) 2:09 14
9. Adrein Castellanos (Modesto) 2:09.34
10. Abraham Maldonado (Atwater) 2:09.38
VG 1600m
With top qualifier Ruvalcaba (RBK) opting for a different meet, it leaves a group of 5 Frosh runners in the top 10 qualifiers.
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| Garcia and Fife leading Varela and Mendoza |
2. Emily Fife (Hughson) 5:32.92
3. Daisy Perez (Livingston) 5:38.96
4. Savannah Mendoza (Modesto) 5:40.03
5. Maria Varela (Turlock) 5:42.25
6. Josette Vigil (Golden Valley) 5:45.25
7. Clara Harman (Atwater) 5:53.98
8. Diana Bautista (Golden Valley) 5:55.68
9. Samantha Perez (Golden Valley) 5:57.13
10. Hannah Heath (Central Catholic) 6:01.64
VB 1600m
StanCo comes in with 8 of the top ten teams here. Rivas has to be the favorite, but Hart has run times equal to his and Keith will out kick anyone if he can stay close.
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| Hart leading the field at 1000m |
2. Michael Keith (Enochs) 4:43.91
3. Marc Alania (Modesto) 4:43.96
4. Eric Alvarez (Turlock) 4:44.39
5. Jeremy Hart (Gregori) 4:45.29
6. Santiago Ruiz (Gregori) 4:47.17
7. Anthony Vazquez (Central Catholic) 4:47.35
8. Tomas Virgen (Patterson) 4:48.83
9. Michael Saldana (Golden Valley) 4:52.47
10. Alan Guerrero (Modesto) 4:52.53
VG 3200m
With the two Hughson girls working together the whole race they will be tough to beat.
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| Campos, Langley, and S. Perez |
2. Kinsey Langley (Hughson) 12:41.70
3. Daisy Perez (Livingston) 12:49.52
4. Sonia Perez (Modesto) 13:12.19
5. Liz Coronado (Buhach Colony) 13:18.66
6. Kristin Aguilar (Oakdale) 13:22.11
7. Kristine Castro (Golden Valley) 13:26.11
8. Alondra Cisneros (Atwater) 13:28.07
9. Priscilla Bazan (Pitman) 13:29.84
10. Daphni Fraguglia (Buhach Colony) 13:32.18
VB 3200m
Rivas should win going away, but StanCo runners probably will dominate the rest of the higher places.
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| a large pack of StanCo 3200m runners |
2. Mason Reeves (Gregori) 10:07.11
3. Marc Alania (Modesto) 10:14.08
4. Luis Orendain (Modesto) 10:23.29
5. Tomas Virgen (Patterson) 10:26.39
6. David Bosquez (Turlock) 10:31.81
7. Matthew Marsh (Gregori) 10:35.74
8. Immanuel Wright (Golden Valley) 10:39.56
9. Eduardo Jimenez (Atwater) 10:40.59
10. Carson Boice (Hughson) 10:46.05
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