COBB — Sonoma Academy”s Jax Reiff and Katy Lee won their respective races on Wednesday as Lower Lake High School hosted a Coastal Mountain Conference cross country meet at Adams Springs Golf Course.
While Middletown is also using Adams Springs as its home course this season, the runners participating in Wednesday”s meet ran a longer distance — 3 miles — according to Lower Lake coach Laura Hutchinson.
“Middletown ran 2.2 miles, but that”s too short so we designed a longer course,” Hutchinson said. “It went really well and everybody really liked it. It”s beautiful up there. I really appreciate Eddie Mullins (Adams Springs owner) for letting us run there. They shut down the golf course so we can use it.”
Varsity boys
Although Lower Lake”s Audel Torres led early on in the varsity boys” race, he was slowed by cramps and ended up finishing 13th in 20 minutes, 57 seconds.
Reiff and teammates Jacob Gaynor and Aaron Rotman battled it out before Reiff emerged the winner in 17:08, followed by Gaynor at 17:10 and Rotman at 17:13.
The fourth- and fifth-place finishers were also Sonoma Academy runners — Austin Orr at 17:34 and Patrick Loftus at 17:35.
Lower Lake”s Zef Roofner finished 16th overall in 21:52 and teammate Cesar Ruiz was 18th in 22:42.
Fort Bragg beat Lower Lake 18-38 in head-to-head scoring.
Varsity girls
Lee, one of the top runners in the Redwood Empire, won the varsity girls” race in 19:51, finishing more than a minute ahead of Fort Bragg standout Alexandra Sciocchetti (21:00). Kiana Herold of Sonoma Academy came in third in 25:56, Sonoma Academy”s Yzzy Mirabelli was fourth in 26:13, and Hillary Minor of Fort Bragg rounded out the top five in 26:19.
Lower Lake had no runners entered in the race.
JV boys
Max Hantzsche of Point Arena won the JV boys” race in 20:13. Eli Rosen-Duran of Sonoma Academy came in second in 20:26.
The Trojans run a week from today in Petaluma.
