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Success At Sunny Hills
Braves Top Team At Challenging Invitational

In their second week of racing the Braves took on a challenging course and some challenging teams. The outcome favored the Braves as they paced the way to place first. It wasn't a dominating win, but the Braves ran solid and didn't do anything to diminish their status as one of the area's top teams. Teams posing solid challenges to the Braves were strong Orange Country programs Cypress, and Valencia, a vastly improved Lakewood team, and always steady Glendora. It was the Braves depth however that proved to be their strong point as a 42 second spread for their top five earned them a 81:25 team time and the victory.

Leading the way for the Braves for the second week in a row was senior Luis Uribe. His time of 15:58 was an improvement over last years. Uribe was followed by junior Randy Skillens who controlled his sophomore race a little bit before the first mile and seemingly cruised to victory with a time of 16:02. Ever consistent senior Ephraim Barrios placed as the Braves third man in a time of 16:08. Juniors Kevin Urak and Luis Perez once again rounded out the top five as they raced solid and finished with times of 16:37 and 16:40 respectively on a course that does not like to yield fast times.

Also making progress in their second week of racing was senior Jon Sandoval, who matched his personal best time of 16:51 and earned himself the number six spot on the Braves squad