A cross country first for YHS

Sierra Star Sports

DINUBA — A Yosemite High School freshman beat 70 participants to clock the fastest time ever by a YHS freshman on the Dinuba Invitational course.

Badger Matt Prescott with a time of 13 minutes, 25 seconds, won the sophomore boys race at the meet held last Saturday at Dinuba.

The competing schools were McLane, San Joaquin Memorial, Sierra, Chowchilla, Dinuba, Washington Union, Kerman, Kingsburg and Woodlake.

The first race for Yosemite High School, was the 2.5-mile race for the freshmen and sophomore boys.

Michael Vaughn followed Prescott with a 14:51 time. Miles Church finished in 15:22.

The remaining Badgers’ times were the following: Jim Springer 15:32, Chase McCabe 16:09, Seth McClure 16:15, Andrew Boortz 16:43, John Padilla 16:59, David Hernandez 17:13, Andrew Durrell 18:13, Matt Fullerton 19:38, and Elisha Plunlee 19:50.

Girls race

Coach Ellen Peterson entered all of the freshmen and sophomore girls in the varsity girls race because they were latefor the second race of the day.

Yosemite’s Rebecca Warr placed third out of 70 runners. Her time was 16:55.

She was followed by Janella Moylan with a time of 16:59, and Stephanie Miller, who ran a 17:05.

The following runners were Amanda Hinkle 17:09, Katie Romine 17:38, Jennifer Hoskinson 18:16, Jessica Burks 18:17, Jessica Rybazyk 18:19, Alana Stewart 18:35, Shannon Moylan 18:50, Amanda Canning 18:53, Alica Sanchez 19:35, Katie Hardesveldt 19:24, April Martin 19:54, Jennifer Borgardus 19:56, Sara Powell 20:37, Shawna Rubottum 22:30, and Courtney Johnson 24:21.

Varsity boys

In the fourth race, for varsity boys, the Badgers’ Ryan Johnson came in third overall and first for Yosemite. The senior ran an impressive 12:45. Second for Yosemite was junior Greg Stewart. He ran 13:20. Senior David Padilla was third for the Badgers with a time of 13:21. He was followed by junior Bray Jacks in 13:48.

Junior Van Contero’s 13:50 time placed him in the fifth spot for Badger runners.

Other times for the Badgers are the following: Beau Bean 14:14, Sammy Mendez 14:27, Derek Bogardus 15:23, Adam Kernaghan 15:44, Seth Elizalde 16:13, Kevin Guadagnini 16:13, and Brian Trukki 19:09.

The next meet is the Kingsburg Invitational Saturday [September 8], at Kingsburg High School.