There was some speculation on the part of some southland teams that this year's St. John Bosco cross-country team may not have the tools to make a difference in the CIF-Southern Section this year. While the Braves haven't proved anything of importance yet, they at least showed that you can't count them out after they've been knocked down.

Refusing to let their season pass by the way side it was the seniors who led their squad to a team victory at this year's Sunny Hills invitational. It was the second time in as many years that the Braves won this meet. Despite losing one of their top runners due to injury the Braves were only 11 seconds off the team time they recorded last year 81:25 (in 2003) to 81:36.

The term "senior dominated team" was literal this time out for the Braves as their top 5 scorers were all seniors. Kevin Urak led the way once again for his team as he set the fastest time of the day by any runner en-route to a time of 15:50. Rounding out the senior scorers were Randy Skillens, Luis Perez, Matthew Pruter and Russell Gonzalez - who set a huge personal record to become a force on this year's squad.

Rounding out the top 7 for the Braves were sophomores Victor Bonilla (16:52 - runner up sophomore boys race) and Justin Martinez (17:08).

Leading the freshman Braves were David Boese (17:54) and Brett McCoy (18:52).

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