{"id":7439,"date":"2026-10-16T22:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:19:06","slug":"mountain-vista-runners-win-individual-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Vista runners win individual races"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Johnson edges out Middletown&#8217;s Lau by two seconds at Clear Lake State Park course<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both runners compete for Mountain Vista Middle School. Runners from Middletown Middle School and Upper Lake Middle School also took part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson and Middletown\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eli Haro of Middletown came in third at 18:45. Rounding out the top five spots were Mountain Vista\u2019s Benjamin Beitman (20:56) and Cayden Crabtree (22:55).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s Korbyn Lorenzen (26:02) and David Larios-Muniz (31:18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown head coach Kaytlin Zolensky said all of her runners improved their season-best times \u2013 Lau by 83 seconds and Brame by a team best two minutes, 27 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am amazed by this team\u2019s hard work and steady progress each meet,\u201d Zolensky said. \u201cNothing makes me prouder than seeing them grow and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stetson improved her season-best time by 50 seconds and Zolensky by 31 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The league championship meet is Oct. 29 at a site to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson edges out Middletown&#8217;s Lau by two seconds at Clear Lake State Park course Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,40,49,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439"}],"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=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7441,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}