Carson High School places 25th at Clovis Cross Country Invite
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 2:30pm
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October 12, 2019 (All day) Carson High School cross country runners logged 18 personal record times on Saturday at the 41st annual Asics Clovis Invitational on Oct. 4 in Fresno, Calif. This meet featured Great Oak, the top boy's team in the country, and Nico Young of Newberry Park, top boy runner in the country
The Senators – who broke out new royal blue and gray uniforms — finished 26th in the large schools varsity boys race and 30th in the girls race in a meet that showcased runners on the same 5-kilometer course at Woodward Park, which hosts the California state meet each November. It also served as their last big tuneup before the Sierra League meet on Oct. 25 and region meet on Nov. 2 in Reno. Zach Sever led Carson's boys as he clocked a 16:29 to place 31st, followed by a pack of teammates who combined to log six lifetime and season best times.
Walker MacKenzie placed 74th (17:02), followed by Ethan Bauerle in 17:45, Jacob Crossman 17:57, Jakob Heller 18:16, Asher Koch 18:26 and Dominic Valdez 19:00 in a field of 242 runners. Baulere, a sophomore, improved his personal best by 65 seconds, Koch, another sophomore, improved by 37 seconds, and MacKenzie cut 36 seconds from his previous best set at last year's Clovis meet. Valdez improved by 28 seconds and Crossman lowered his time by 26 seconds. The script was similar in the girls race, where all seven Senators posted either personal best or season best times.
Hannah Kaiser placed 67th in a season-best of 20:35, followed by Claire Cartier in 22:20, a personal best by 36 seconds, Sydney Romeo 22:29, a personal best by 15 seconds, Samantha Schofield 22:42, a personal best by 35 seconds, Hailey Ponczoch ran a season-best 22:45, Julia Kaiser 22:54, an 8-minute personal best and Ava Brehm ran a personal-best 23:34 by 23 seconds. A total of 34 seconds separated the team's No. 2 through No. 6 runners. Carson finished 15th out of 22 teams in the large schools boys junior varsity race.
Andrew Ingram and Mikkael Villard cracked the top 100 with respective times of 19:06 and 19:08. Ingram improved by 48 seconds and Villard, an exchange student from Norway, improved by 1 minute, 48 seconds. Kyle Holloway ran 19:51, an improvement of 47 seconds,
Gabe Crossman ran 19:56, Samuel Davis ran 20:16, an improvement of 1:52, Alex Barr ran 20:35, an improvement of 29 seconds and Cody Jackson ran 22:08. In the JV girls race, Gianna Johnson ran 26:09, an improvement of 1 minute, 18 seconds as three Senators ran lifetime best marks.
Isabel Cartier ran 26:28, Lydia Thornley ran 27:59, an improvement of 1:15, Jaredh Lopez ran 29:35 and Kora Ashton ran 29:56. Carson finished 25th as a team.
