This year's Bell Gardens invitational was a great way for the lower level talent on the St. John Bosco cross-country team to showcase their talent. Promise, potential and talent is what did show through as many of the boys - who don't have visions of running on the varsity this year, but rather just race to better their times from the race prior - dug deep with in themselves to set personal records.

Many of the Braves took advantage of the cool weather and flat course to push themselves to see how fast they could really go.

On the senior level it was Russell Gonzalez - who was racing with a vengeance to keep his varsity spot - that led the way for the whole team. The senior "6th man" ran to a personal best time of 16:18 and set the tone for the day.

The Juniors were led by Michael Alvarez who set a huge personal best of his own after crossing the finish line in 17:18. Other juniors setting notable personal bests were John Woscek and Rudy Bribiesca.

In the sophomore race it was Justin Martinez who led the way after setting a personal record of 16:44. However it was the group of Daniel Bacerra (pictured above), Austin DeLana, Geoff Garces and Brent Ruffy who had highly notable races as they all set impressive personal records for themselves.

The freshman were led once again by David Boese, however it was Brett McCoy (pictured at right) who shortened the gap on his class leader to finish 6 seconds behind him as he set a large personal record for himself.

The Braves next race at "the largest cross-country invitational in America" when they travel to Mt. San Antonio College to run in the Mt. SAC invitational. More information will be available soon.

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