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Meeting of the Maruaders
Saturday, August 29, 2009 @ Hoffman Park (SJS)
2.70 miles (warm at race time - projected high of 97 later in the day
|  | Rich Gonzalez
Editor, DyeStatCal
(August 29, 2009) -- For college basketball across the country, they call in Midnight Madness. For cross-country in Carmichael, they simply term it "Meeting of the Marauders."
Call it what you want, the translation's the same: Excitement builds as the season is almost here.
A time-honored tradition for perhaps California's most storied program, the newest version of "Meeting of the Marauders" played out on what later promised to be a very hot day as this year's Jesuit High School cross-country runners attacked Hoffman Park for the first steps of their 2009 season.
Temperatures forecast as high as 97 degrees later in the day appeared not to hinder this gathering, which saw Adam Kelly-Strong at the front end of a strong veteran showing. Kelly-Strong, who led the Marauders to a Top 10 state meet finish in 2008, was the frontrunner again here by finishing 39 seconds clear of his next teammate, T.J. Brown-Pinizzotto.
A few "new" names to the possible varsity roster added were reason for promise. Danny Diaz, a 4:53 performer for 1600m in track, showed well to finish third overall (all rades ran together in a single race) in 14:44. Other notable breakthroughs came from senior Andy Farris, who closed out the top-five scoring, and sophomore Luke Gary, who we'd heard good things on in recent days.
Farris did not break 2:09 for 800 meters in track, but was very impressive in the cross-country challenge here, perhaps signaling a fine summer of training. Gary, who had a best of 11:07 for 3200 meters on the track last year as a ninth grader, ripped 14:54 here to place sixth overall. Depth might be even better for the Marauders than in years past!
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Photos by Joe Hartman
Adam Kelly-Strong (left) seems ready to be the Jesuit frontrunner for 2009, but it 's new and promising
varsity adds Andy Farris (center) and Luke Gary (right) who could be key improvers for the SJS power.
Photo album by Joe Hartman
| 1 Adam Kelly-Strong 13:47 12
2 TJ Brown-Pinizzotto 14:26 11
3 Danny Diaz 14:44 12
4 Colton Misono 14:47 11
5 Andy Farris 14:49 12
(1-to-5 time gap = 62 seconds)
6 Luke Gary 14:54 10
7 Joe Mahoney 14:58 11
(1-to-7 time gap = 71 seconds)
8 Perry Hansen 15:07 12
9 Cormac McCullaugh 15:12 11
10 Justin Lobo 15:19 12
11 Jeremiah Ziebert 15:25 11
12 Justin Brown-Pinizzotto 15:30 11
13 Preston Daniels 15:50 11
14 Alex Intagliata 16:03 12
15 Justin Haynes 16:21 12
16 James Oys 16:22 11
17 Jeremy Verke 16:23 11
18 Flavio Medrano 16:29 9
19 Robby Hartman 16:36 11
21 Carson Wignall 16:37 11
20 Andrew Burrows 16:37 11
22 Kyle Sanborn 16:46 10
23 Spencer Jensen 16:47 9
24 Anthony Galves 16:53 9
25 Luke Maechler 17:26 12
26 John Ricca 17:32 11
27 Gregory Woolgar 17:45 9
28 Chris Medina 17:54 10
29 Charlie Stevens 17:55 12
30 Henry Stroud 17:55 12
31 Sam Stoll 17:56 9
32 Tanner Misono 18:03 9
33 George Rozowski-Vogt 18:07 11
34 Spencer Yee 18:09 9
35 Robert Hoppe 18:10 11
36 Christopher San Juan 18:12 10
37 Zach McPherson 18:14 11
38 Matt Reed 18:17 11
39 Matt Nelson 18:29 10
40 Matthew Henley 18:35 10
41 Tim Jones 18:36 10
42 Steven Crayne 18:39 12
43 Eric Frame 18:42 12
44 Louis Styer 18:52 9
45 Christopher Grottkau 18:53 9
46 Jacob Crayne 18:54 10
47 Jack Shea 18:57 9
48 David Heaphy 19:30 12
49 James Kornowski 19:35 12
50 Mark Isidro 19:40 11
51 George Medina 19:43 12
52 Chris Goode 19:49 9
53 Brian Trieu 19:50 9
54 Toby Uba 20:17 9
55 Sam Wilson 20:46 12
56 Patrick Bush 21:24 10
57 Trevor Martin 21:32 10
58 Bryan Taylor 21:42 9
59 David Mauro 21:50 11
60 Ian Bupara 24:24 10
61 Matthew Emslie 32:07 9
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