{"id":7197,"date":"2026-09-20T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:19:37","slug":"hill-west-score-top-finishes-for-mtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7197","title":{"rendered":"Hill, West score top finishes for M&#8217;town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cross country team participates in Eye Opener Invitational at Petaluma course<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETALUMA &gt;&gt; Charlize Hill placed third in the sophomore race Saturday as members of the Middletown High School cross country team all set personal bests during the Ninth Annual Eye Opener Invitational at Schollenber Park in Petaluma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All races were 3 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPRs all around,\u201d Middletown head coach Taylor Tiraterra said. \u201cOur boys team is dynamite this year, and Charlie Hill is already one of the fastest runners MHS had had in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill completed the course in 20 minutes, 16.9 seconds. Teammates Nick Lopez (26:19.2) and Alondra Martinez (32:51.0) finished 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 27<sup>th<\/sup>, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other girls competition, Brooklyn Lighter (32:26.7) placed 18<sup>th<\/sup> in the freshman race, Madison Lighter (32:49.2) was 24<sup>th<\/sup> in the junior race, and Lupita Cabrera (22:48.2) nailed down 10<sup>th<\/sup> place in the junior race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucker West had the best finish among the Middletown boys, claiming ninth in the freshman boys race at 17:44.60. In the senior boys race, Isael Haro finished 15<sup>th<\/sup> in 18:30.3 while Ren Ueno was right behind him in 16<sup>th<\/sup> at 18:39.3. My Nguyen was 29<sup>th<\/sup> in 22:44.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the junior boys race, Gerardo Rodriguez placed 19<sup>th<\/sup> in 18:45.96 and Kai Sooy was 24<sup>th<\/sup> in 19:20.74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabe Aispuro came in 38<sup>th<\/sup> in the sophomore boys race in 19:42.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross country team participates in Eye Opener Invitational at Petaluma course Lake County Sports on Facebook PETALUMA &gt;&gt; Charlize Hill placed third in the sophomore race Saturday as members of the Middletown High School cross country team all set personal bests during the Ninth Annual Eye Opener Invitational at Schollenber Park in Petaluma. All races [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7198,"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\/7197"}],"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=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}