GIRLS STATE CHAMPS! Boys 7th.

The girls are champions in the the state finals debut. The boys produce their best ever result of a 7th place.

Fresno, CA - The girls cross country team has had an individual at the state finals four of the last five years, but for the first time in OC history the girls cross country had a full squad on the starting line at the state finals and they made the best of it...STATE CHAMPIONS! The boys produced their best ever finish of 7th place in their third appearance in the last four years. Charlie Petrie took 9th place overall and became the first OC runner ever to claimed All State Honors.
Although the performance was far form perfect the girls rose to the occasion and to the top of the podium stand. The tightly group pack of OC girls were too much for the rest of the state. Congrats to Cristina Garcia, Samantha Roesler, Tina Boskovich, Emily Fuld, Brittani Gardella, Catherine Price, Roseanne Fleming and Morgan Temanson.
The boys improved from its 14th place performance in 2006 with a 7th place peformance this year. The also took two minutes off the OC team time record in the process. Charlie Petrie improved his OC record by twelve seconds running 16:12 for All State Honors. Congrats also to Hunter Hays (13th), Ethan Long, Rafael Garcia, Justin Sullivan, Mike Colarossi (racing for the second week with 14 stitches in his right knee), Nick Colarossi (racing the last 1.25 miles without a shoe), Bobby Nordlund and Ryan Huning.
Coach Smith has now mentored a boys CIF SS Title in track & Field (2006) and a girls State Title in cross country (2007). Lookout football there will be another State Championship banner on the gym wall...

Personal & OC Bests set at Woodward Park at State Finals

Fastest Boys Team Time - Top 5 = 84:25
Fastest Boys Team Time - Top 7 = 121:52

Fastest Girls Team Time - Top 5 = 101:15
Fastest Girls Team Time - Top 7 = 144:57

Charlie Petrie 16:12 = OC Record, Junior #1, OC's first ever All State (9th place) runner
Hunter Hays 16:25 = OC #2, Junior #2
Ethan Long 16:52 = OC #4, Senior #1
Rafael Garcia 17:21 = OC #6, Senior #4
Justin Sullivan 17:47 = OC #7, Senior #5

Cristy Garcia 19:38 = OC # Frosh #2
Samantha Roesler 20:13 = OC #3, Senior #1
Tina Boskovich 20:17 = OC #4, Junior #
Emily Fuld 20:32 = OC #6, Junior #
Brittani Gardella 20:35 = OC #7, Frosh #
Catherine Price 21:26 = OC #9, Junior #5

Girls CIF Runner Ups, Boys Third

Walnut, CA – Both the boys and girls cross country teams toed the line at CIF Southern Section Finals at Mt San Antonio College. The girls were making their 7th consecutive appearance and the boys their 5th consecutive. Both teams were racing for the opportunity to win a CIF championship and qualifying spot for the State Finals.

The GIRLS raced first with a bittersweet result placing second as a team! Although CIF Runner Ups is the best finish in OC history and the first time the girls have qualified a complete squad to the State Finals the girls were left wondering what could have been. Individual favorite and senior Roseanne Fleming faded from contention after the mile and struggled to the finish placing well back making the difference between CIF Champions Maranatha and the CIF Runner Up Lions. Cristy Garcia set the OC frosh record bettering Roseanne’s frosh time by one second (19:06-19:07) and placed 8th overall earning second team All CIF honors. Samantha Roesler and Tina Boskovich used team tactics to become the fourth and fifth girls in OC history to break 20 minutes on the Mt SAC course. Sam edged Tina both running 19:56. Emily Fuld, recovering from illness and missing school earlier in the week, still posted a personal best 20:27 behind Rosie’s 20:26. Brittani Gardella also took the second have of the week off for illness, but still posted a personal best 21:22. Morgan Temanson rounded out the crew running 21:45.

The girls will get a re-match next week with a bigger crown to win at the State Finals. Maranatha, the #1 ranked team in the state and Berkeley St. Mary’s will be heavily challenged by the now confident Lions squad. The Lions defeated St. Mary’s earlier this year for the Stanford Invitational title.

The BOYS raced next posting personal bests by all seven guys, but came just five points from the podium placing third overall. Third place is also the best finish in OC history, but the performance may provide the inspiration needed for the State Final next week. The defending state champions Big Bear placed second just five points ahead of the Lions with Nordhoff winning by 27 points. The Lions have beaten the Rangers on three occasions this season and will look for a fourth at the state meet. Charlie Petrie (15:50) improved his OC record with the first ever sub-16 mark at Mt SAC for a Lion. Charlie’s 3rd place finish is the best ever by an male Lion and equals Rosie’s best finish. Hunter Hays ran the #2 time in OC history with a brilliant 16:09 and a 5th place finish. Both Charlie and Hunter earned first team All CIF. Ethan Long’s 12th place finish and 16:19 earned him second team All CIF honors and the third fastest mark in OC history. Rafael Garcia ran beautiful personal best 16:41. Justin Sullivan (17:24), Mike Colarossi (17:30) and Nick Colarossi (17:47) ran fantastically all improving. Mike ran with 14 stitches in his right knee from an injury the day before. The boys took nearly two minutes off the OC team time record.

Next Up…
STATE FINALS
Woodward Park – Fresno, CA
Sat, Nov 24th

OC Top Marks set at CIF SS Finals:

Charlie Petrie 15:50 OC Record & #1junior
Hunter Hays 16:09 #2 OC all time & #2 junior
Ethan Long 16:19 #3 OC all time & #1 senior
Rafael Garcia 16:41 #6 OC all time & #4 junior
Justin Sullivan 17:24 #5 senior
Mike Colarossi 17:30 #6 senior
Nick Colarossi 17:47 #4 sophomore

Cristy Garcia 19:06 #2 OC all time & #1 frosh
Samantha Roesler 19:56 #4 OC all time & #2 senior
Tina Boskovich 19:56 #5 OC all time & #2 junior
Emily Fuld 20:27 #7 OC all time & #4 junior
Brittani Gardella 21:22 #4 frosh

142:58 – Girls Team Time – all 7 combined
82:21 – Boys Team Time – Top 5
117:38 – Boys Team Time – all 7 combined

CIF Prelims - OC Boys & Girls #1 Qualifiers for Finals

Sat, Nov 11th - A first for OC cross country and a first for Coach Smith...heat victories at CIF Prelims, but one victory was not enough. The Lions tallied three victories on the day.

Both the boys and the girls won their heats while holding back on the pace and holding out top runners resting for next week's finals. Roseanne Fleming added an easy paced individual heat victory to the mix, the 14th of her career. All of this looks to be predicting promising results at CIF Finals.

The boys started their post-season run in heat two of two with Charlie Petrie pacing the Lions running a comfortable 16:12 which is just one second off his OC record and a 3rd place finish. Ethan Long (16:36) and Hunter Hays (16:37) came in next gliding to 5th and 6th place respectively. Ethan is the first boy and only the third OC runner to ever run in four CIF Prelims (Laura Fredrickson and Roseanne Fleming are the other two). Hunter posted a personal best 16:37 cutting 34 seconds from his PR. Rafael Garcia cruised home in 12th place smiling and giving thumbs up as he PR'd with a 16:54 improving by 26 seconds. Justin Sullivan closed the deal on the team points with a 35th place 17:54 followed by Nick Colarossi (18:14, 41st) and frosh alternate Ryan Huning (18:21, 48th). Ryan chopped 1:59 from his performance 3 weeks ago at the Mt SAC Invitational. The boys team placed 1st in the heat 2 point better than Nordhoff. They also posted the fastest team time of the qualifying teams making them the #1 qualifier for next week's CIF SS Finals.

The girls made statement with their return to the post-season posting the fastest qualifying time in the prelims. The Lions did not send a team to the post-season last year, but came back this year posting a 99:47 team time good for an OC record, 5:13 faster than the previous record!! La Reina won heat two with an impressive 100:34 and their best performance of the season and racing with all of its top athletes, but the Lions answered running nearly a minute faster while holding out two of the top 6. Roseanne Fleming ran away with the individual victory in 18:54. Cristy Garcia ran 19:22 to become the 2nd fastest performer and freshman in OC history, Cristy placed 4th. Samantha Roesler and Tina Boskovich placed 16th and 17th with PR's of 10:16 and 20:17. Catherine Price rocketed to a 20:58 (3:02 faster than her league finals time) as the #5 runner for OC clinching the heat victory for the Lions. Morgan Temanson acted as the displacer adding valuable points to the opposing team while PR'ing in 21:19, a 1:09 improvement. Rookie Fallon Cislo filled in for Emily Fuld (resting at home ill) to round out the OC team. Fallon improved her performance from the Mt SAC invitational (26:38) 3 weeks ago taking 4:42 off her PR and running 21:56, yikes!

Next up: CIF Southern Section Finals @ Mt SAC on Sat, Nov 17th @ 9:45 am.


OC Records / OC Bests set at CIF SS Prelims

Boys Team Time
84:15 Petrie, Long, Hays, Garcia, Sullivan
(old record 85:24 2006 CIF Finals Petrie, Long, Hays, Garcia, M Colarossi)

Girls Team Time
99:47 Fleming, Garcia, Roesler, Boskovich, Price
(old record 105:00 2005 Mt SAC Fleming, Rosas, Strenkowski, Fredrickson, M Temanson)

Boys Junior
Charlie Petrie 16:12
(old record Ethan Long 16:27 2006 CIF Finals

Girls Senior
Roseanne Fleming 18:54
(old record Maggie Stanley 21:23 2005 Mt SAC)


Other Class Rankings - OC All Time
@ CIF Prelims (@ Mt SAC)

Ryan Huning #4 - 9th
Nick Colarossi #7 - 10th
Charlie Petrie #1 - 11th
Hunter Hays #4 - 11th
(Nick Matra #15 - 11th
Ethan Long #4 - 12th
Rafael Garcia #5 - 12th
(Justin Sullivan #6 - 12th)
(Bobby Nordlund #11 - 12th)
(Greg Sadler #12 - 12th)
(David Goeser #13 - 12th)

Cristy Garcia #2 - 9th
(Brittani Gardella #6 - 9th)
(Niki MacWhirter #13 - 9th)
Fallon Cislo #5 - 1oth
Tina Boskovich #2 - 11th
(Emily Fuld #4 - 11th)
Catherine Price #5 - 11th
Roseanne Fleming #1 - 12th
Samantha Roesler #2 - 12th
Morgan Temanson #3 - 12th