Cross Country: November 2008 Archives

Bolingbrook Raiders boys cross country coach Art Pahl had this to say about his team's performance at the Class 3A Reavis Sectional on Saturday after his Raiders finished 20th in a 21-team field.

"Team ran all right," Pahl wrote in an email. "Matt Gutierrez has been sick and is only now recovering from his illness. With everyone but Jesse Stanford returning next year, we hope we can use this as a stepping stone for improvement next year."

On the girls side, Bolingbrook advanced to the sectional for the first time in more than 20 years, according to coach Brian Zeglin. The Raiders placed 14th out of 20 teams.

Other notes that Zeglin passed on about the race: Mariana Hernandez, Zuri Carbajal and Shelby Manning dropped more than a minute from their usual three-mile time; Briana Certa ran her best race of the year; freshman Jahnell Horton was not at 100 percent.

Now that the girls and boys cross country teams have been eliminated from the playoffs, that leaves the football team as the lone Bolingbrook Raiders team alive from the fall sports season.

Soon enough, we will speak about hoops, rasltlin and picking up the spare. But for now, it's all bout foosball.

The top-seeded Raiders will play at Hinsdale Central next week in the second round of the IHSA Class 8A playoffs. Maybe it will be on Friday. Maybe on Saturday. We don't know, we have to wait, just like the winter sports.

Boys bowling starts first on Nov. 11 at Plainfield North. Then comes the big shooter of the group -- girls basketball -- with its debut on Nov. 22 at Parkland College. The boys basketball teams tips it off on Nov. 25 in Decatur on the same night that the wrestling team gets going at Bradley. The last squad to get in motion is girls bowling, which will begin its roll on Dec. 4 versus Lincoln-Way North.

The Bolingbrook Raiders cross country teams did not advance to the IHSA Class 3A state championships on Saturday at the Reavis Sectional.

A top-five finish as a team or a top-10 finish as an individual was necessary to qualify for state.

The girls were 14th in a field of 20 teams.

Freshmen Mariana Hernandez and Jahnell Horton finished a half second apart to pace the Raiders in 77th and 78th place, repectively. Hernandez crossed in 19 minutes, 58.1 seconds. Horton clocked in at 19:58.6.

The boys were 20th in the 21-team field.

Junior Jesus Hernandez was the top finisher for boys in 64th place in the 164-runner field with a time of 16 minutes, 44 seconds.

Girls Results (14th)

77th Mariana Hernandez (Freshman)
78th Jahnell Horton (Freshman)
91st Zuri Carbajal (Freshman)
94th Shelly Manning (Junior)
108th Briana Certa (Sophomore)
127th Monica Daugherty (Freshman)

Boys Results (20th) 64th Jesus Hernandez (Junior) 94th Stephen Garrett (Freshman) 107th Ricardo Rodriguez (Junior) 120th Mark Carlson (Junior) 122nd Jesse Stanford (Senior) 138th Matt Gutierrez (Junior) 144th Eric Casey (Junior)