The Monte Vista Invitational - Home of the Eliminator!

Both Boys and Girls squads come ready to race at the NCS meet today, giving it one last effort on the fast Hayward High School 5K course.  And both teams are rewarded with hard earned 9th place team finishes out of the 17 to 19 Division 1 teams they faced.  Jr's Bhavik Kanzaria (28th overall) and Chloe Wood (29th overall) take top individual honors for the Stangs, but true to form, the teams ran very tightly packed, leading to the strong finish.  The boys run a respectable 16:59 team time, with four runners in the top 50.  Harry Nunns runs the 'breakout' race of the day for the boys, finishing 3rd for MV (39th overall) in 16:48.  The girls finish in 21:17 team time, without Renee Lau in the lineup due to an injured hip.  Freshman Nicole Aha is the surprise story there, finishing second for MV in 49th place!

SRV Boys team qualifies for State Meet.  Other EBAL State meet qualifiers include Doug Whichard (Granada) and Dimitry Kislyuk (Cal) for the boys, and Diana George (Livermore), Alexis Nordine (SRV), Colleen Lillig (Cal) and Rebecca Paddock (Granada) for the girls.

Full results below.  Congrats to the NCS Varsity Team.  With only Keith Romoser graduating from the NCS squad, plans were already being made for the 2007 edition of this race!