{"id":3770,"date":"2025-08-31T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:28:44","slug":"mtown-runners-open-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;town runners open 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mustangs send 11 to Lagoon Valley Classic in Vacaville<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VACAVILLE &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s cross country team opened a new season Saturday at the annual Lagoon Valley Classic in Vacaville where the 11 competing Mustangs competed in races of 2 or 3 miles, depending on their division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will have full boys and girls teams this year, but not everyone could make the race due to the fair (Lake County Fair),\u201d Middletown head coach Taylor Tiraterra said. \u201cWe lost a lot of great seniors last year, so we\u2019re rebuilding the team with new recruits this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Middletown\u2019s future looks bright, according to Tiraterra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll that said, we had some great performances,\u201d Tiraterra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ren Ueno placed 87<sup>th<\/sup> out of 192 runners in the small school varsity boys 3-mile race, setting a personal-best time on the course with a finishing time of 19 minutes, 44.1 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Len Rivas, a senior, finished 57<sup>th<\/sup> out of 131 runners in the small school varsity girls 3-mile race with a time of 24:19.9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with her this year,\u201d Tiraterra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShoutouts as well to our brand new runner, Maddison Ligher, who showed great pacing ability in her first race, and returning runners Gerardo Rodriguez and Isael Haro, both of whom had great surges toward the end of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighter completed the frosh-soph girls 2-mile race in 23:11.9. Haro (20:09.5) and Rodriguez (22:04.1) ran in the 3-mile small school varsity boys division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown returns to action Sept. 10 in Fort Bragg for the first North Central League I meet of the season. Clear Lake, Kelseyville, Lower Lake, Upper Lake, St. Helena, Willits Cloverdale and host Fort Bragg will also run. Middletown will score against St. Helena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustangs send 11 to Lagoon Valley Classic in Vacaville Lake County Sports on Facebook VACAVILLE &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s cross country team opened a new season Saturday at the annual Lagoon Valley Classic in Vacaville where the 11 competing Mustangs competed in races of 2 or 3 miles, depending on their division. \u201cWe will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}