Johnson edges out Middletown’s Lau by two seconds at Clear Lake State Park course
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KELSEYVILLE >> Chandler Johnson won the boys race and Claudia Corona the girls race during middle school cross country action Wednesday on the 2.5-mile Clear Lake State Park course.
Both runners compete for Mountain Vista Middle School. Runners from Middletown Middle School and Upper Lake Middle School also took part.
Boys
Johnson and Middletown’s Jackson Lau waged one heck of a race, finishing within two seconds of each other. Johnson clocked in at 17 minutes, 20 seconds followed by Lau at 17:22.
Eli Haro of Middletown came in third at 18:45. Rounding out the top five spots were Mountain Vista’s Benjamin Beitman (20:56) and Cayden Crabtree (22:55).
Also finishing were Zachary William of Upper Lake (23:21), Sonny Anderson of Mountain Vista (23:43), Ryan Brame of Middletown (23:50, Donovan Perez of Upper Lake (24:12), and Mountain Vista’s Korbyn Lorenzen (26:02) and David Larios-Muniz (31:18).
Middletown head coach Kaytlin Zolensky said all of her runners improved their season-best times – Lau by 83 seconds and Brame by a team best two minutes, 27 seconds.
“I am amazed by this team’s hard work and steady progress each meet,” Zolensky said. “Nothing makes me prouder than seeing them grow and succeed.”
Girls
Corona cruised to the finish line in 19:06, three minutes in front of her Mountain Vista teammate, Elsie Olson (22:06). Hailey Stetson of Middletown came in third (24:04), Amora Garcia of Mountain Vista was fourth in 26:34, and Ashlynn Zolensky of Middletown came in fifth in 28:48.
Stetson improved her season-best time by 50 seconds and Zolensky by 31 seconds.
Other finishers were Sofia Ross of Upper Lake (29:40), Sophia Raffaelli of Mountain Vista (31:18, Atalanta Hernandez of Upper Lake (33:56), Sarah Raffaelli of Mountain Vista (35:21), Kenzie Chisholm of Mountain Vista (36:18) and Stephanie Hembree of Mountain Vista (42:19).
The league championship meet is Oct. 29 at a site to be determined.
