Flashes State their Case at CIF Finals
(l-r) Jordan Mendoza, Hugo Valdovinos, Jaime Magdaleno, Anthony Rivas, Jose Almaguer, Isaac Gomez, Adrian Mejia, Justin Beach and Alexander Gonzalez. Photo courtesy Jeremy MacMahon.
(l-r) Jordan Mendoza, Hugo Valdovinos, Jaime Magdaleno, Anthony Rivas, Jose Almaguer, Isaac Gomez, Adrian Mejia, Justin Beach and Alexander Gonzalez. Photo courtesy Jeremy MacMahon.
(l-r) Jose Almaguer, Anthony Rivas, Alexander Gonzalez, Adrian Mejia, Isaac Gomez, Hugo Valdovinos and Jordan Mendoza. Photo courtesy Joel and Cathy Frias.
(l-r) Jose Almaguer, Anthony Rivas, Alexander Gonzalez, Adrian Mejia, Isaac Gomez, Hugo Valdovinos and Jordan Mendoza. Photo courtesy Joel and Cathy Frias.

The team put forth an incredible effort as each of the boys harriers set a course PR at CIF Finals. With tremendous effort they placed seventh in Southern Section Div 4. This enables the team to compete on Saturday November 26th at Woodward Park in Fresno for the State Championship.

In individual results Jose Almaguer completed the famous 3 mile course at Mt. SAC in 18th place with a time of 16:09. This is a 20 second improvement over his run on the same course a month ago. Only 8 seconds and 7 places behind him was Anthony Rivas at 25th in 16:17. This is a 31 second improvement. Alexander Gonzales recorded an 11 second improvement to place 39th at 16:30. With a 16 second improvement Adrian Mejia passed the chute in 56th at 16:45. Isaac Gomez was 57th at 16:49, a 34 second improvement. Hugo Valdovinos crossed the line at 16:53 to finish 63rd overall. This was a 31 second improvement over a month. Jordan Mendoza had a 20 second bettering of his previous time as he earned a mark of 16:59 to finish in 67th. There were a total of 117 competitors in the race.