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Braves Run 80:09 - St. John Bosco Captures Elusive Individual Sweepstakes Crown

The Braves are a year late in achieving their potential success, but they say better late then never. It was the 2001 Cross Country team that for various reasons ended their season a bit short, it is this 2002 team that wasn't expected to "do as well." Surprise once again to the world of high school Cross Country. In what is becoming a common occurrence for the 2002 Braves, they once again surprised many to run the 3rd fastest team time in Bosco history in winning the individual sweepstakes portion of the Mt. Sac Invitational. Bosco was the 2nd fastest Division II team on the day finishing only behind Rubidoux High School. Bosco's 110 points in their race sealed the win. Leading the way once again was seasoned veteran Senior Tony Martinez who had an admittedly "off day" but still managed a Mt. SAC PR of 15:41. The next scoring runners finished almost in a perfect cluster. Sophomore Randy Skillens ran to a huge Mt. SAC PR of 15:51, missing the sophomore record by 11 seconds. Next were Juniors Luis Uribe (16:04), Ephraim Barrios (16:13), and Mahesh Gandhi (16:19) - all three runners also had breakthrough Mt. SAC races. Rounding out the Varsity runners was Senior Darby O'neill who also dropped his Mt. SAC PR to a time of 16:38. The boys now have their sites set on the Serra League finals in which they hope to bring their "Streak" of league titles to nine in a row.

In other days news, Senior Eddie Diaz (16:50) and Junior Ruben Flores Kevin Urak (16:51) led his Sophomore team to a 2nd place finish.

Great Job Braves!