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