Cross Country Peaking As it Enters NorCals

 

OROVILLE – The College of the Redwoods men’s cross country team produced another massive performance to cap a second-place finish at the Golden Valley Conference Championship in Oroville today. The Corsairs were led by sophomore Jasper Servern who finished third in a time of 22 minutes and 13 seconds. He was closely followed by a pair of freshman in Austin Imsande (22.38) and Brando Haven (22.39) who both produced a devastating finish to storm pass a string of Butte runners to earn All-Conference honors. Sophomore Gabe Best (23.33) produced another personal best for the fourth week running and was followed in by Zane Brothernton (24.14) to round out the Corsairs top five. 

 

College of the Redwoods started a full girls team for the first time this season and was narrowly edged out for second place by College of the Siskiyous 51 -57. Amanda Viera was the top Corsairs finisher with a persona best 22.55 for ninth place, she was closely followed by Cari Leeper (23.35) in tenth. Mattison Bills (26.27), Hence Bolanos Escobar (27.09) and Nicole Narascues (31.59) rounded out the CR top five.

 

Coach Reed Elmore was elated by the strong performance by both teams.

 

“Both teams ran well today,” Elmore said. “The goal going into [the Northern California Championship] is to beat some of the bigger schools like De Anza and Santa Rosa. That’s going to help us achieve our goal of a top-seven finish at the NorCal Championship next week”.

 

The NorCal championship will take place Nov. 6 at Toro Park in Salinas, where CR already ran once this year. The top 10 teams will advance to the California state championship on November 22.

 

There was also personal best performances by Vitor Hildalgo-Ramos (24.15) and Ismael Lopez (24.40). Despite not making a strong Corsairs top seven,  the trio of Levi Seda (25.04), Addison O’ Hanen (25.55) and Hunter Mattz (26.33) all ran great to cap off a solid performance by a vastly improving  Corsairs team.

 

RESULTS

 

MEN’S

 

Team

Butte 25

Redwoods  41

Shasta       87

Siskiyous    97

 

Individual

3 Jasper Severn  22:13

6 Austin Imsande 22:38

7 Brando Haven  22:39

12 Gabe Best      23:33

13 Zane Brothernton    24:14

16 Ismael Lopez  24:40

17 Levi Seda      25:04

20 Addison Hannen      25:55

24 Hunter Mattz  26:57

 

WOMEN’S

 

Team

Butte 20

Siskiyous    51

Redwoods  57

 

Individual

9 Amanda Viera  25:55

10 Cari Leeper    23:35

15 Matty Bills      26:27

17 Escabar Bolanos      27:09

20 Nicole Narascues     31:59