Inland Empire Recap
October 10, 2009
Every year our Bronco team is faced with new challenges and this year it seems to be sickness. We have had our share of bumps and bruises but the biggest challenge as of the Inland Empire Challenge is sickness. Several of our runners have been out with bronchitis or flu and are either just getting back or just catching the bug. Either way this is where the tough get going. We have found that with each race when someone has been down someone else is there to step up. After finally nailing down the location of the IEC, which was change last minute due to fires in the mountains, the Broncos were off to a new location, PradoDamRegionalPark.
Girls Varsity has been hit hard with flu and injury. This is the first race of the season for Erika and as she steps up Nicaela, Brooke Mc Candless, Sarah Benson and Brooke Evans are out with sickness. That’s o.k., you can’t rattle these girls. Erika stepped up and ran better than one could expect 18:02, just missing 1st place. Jessica McCarthy 18:23, Michelle Hernandez was back from sickness and ran well for her first time back with 18:28, followed by Holli Erickson who has been nursing a pulled hamstring 18:33, a solid runner for us Madyson Koosa who also has been nursing injury 18:44 and a step up stellar performance by Tiana Barnes who seems to be getting stronger each race with 18:45. What a great performance from such a battered team. These girls are a tough group and pull together to get the job done. The girls took 1st place with a score of 48 and a spread of 42 sec.
Girls JV had great performances from Alison Shelton who also has been overcoming health challenges. Allison took 1st place in the Sophomore race with a time of 19:07 followed by Carleen Taylor in 4th place 19:50. Sarah Benson, normally running Varsity, ran in the Freshman race (she too was recovery from illness) ran a tempo workout and took 1st place with a time of 19:04followed by MarilynTriviso, (First time race) 4th place at 19:45!
Boy’s team finally had a healthy Drew Dalton, who had been fighting bronchitis the last couple of weeks. Both Drew and Bryce ran great with Drew taking 1st in sweeps 14:45 and Bryce with 14:50. Freshman Porter Reddish gets stronger and stronger finishing 12th, followed by a solid performance from a sick YaelEspinal 15:40. Ray Villalobos and Jared Balady continue to step up with each race and will be key performers with this team. Boys Varsity team finished 2nd place in Sweeps.
Boys JV team stepped up and had a great race taking 2nd place with a spread of only 25sec. Gus Sjobeck is running crazy good and finished with a time of 16:57 followed by Austin Sorensen 17:08, Jonathan Lloyd 17:19, Marc Diaz 17:25 and John Meisterling 18:01.
Inland Empire Award Winners: AllRiversideCounty
#1 Drew Dalton #2 Bryce Rausa #5 Porter Reddish
Frosh: #1 Porter Reddish #5 Jeomar Muro Senior #1 Drew #2 Bryce
Girls: 1st place Varsity
#7 Erika Reddish
Frosh: # 5 Sarah Soph: #1 Erika Reddish #6 Madyson Koosa Senior: #5 Jessica McCarthy #6 Michelle Hernandez
BRONCOS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!