Saratoga News Photograph by Skye Dunlap Saratoga's Alex Daniels was second overall to lead the Falcons to a team title at the Lynbrook Invitational last week. Anne Ricketts of Saratoga was first in the girls division. Ricketts runs to win-again Daniels leads 'Toga boys to team title By Dick Sparrer There have been two Lynbrook Invitational cross country meets this fall... a nonscoring race in September, and a regular scoring event in October. But scoring or nonscoring, September or October--it didn't matter much to Anne Ricketts of Saratoga. She won both of them. Ricketts ran to a win last September in Lynbrook's nonscoring meet, and the Saratoga star ran to another win last week when runners from the area returned to the Lynbrook campus for a second attempt on the 2.1-mile course. Ricketts covered the distance in 13:05 to win the event in September, and she wasn't much off that pace last week when she ran 13:09 to easily win the girls division at Lynbrook. Ricketts was first, with Sueh-Han Liew of Fremont a distant second at 13:42. Laura Kniskern of Prospect was third in 13:50 to lead the Panthers to the team title in the scoring event. Over on the boys side, Alex Daniels of Saratoga was second overall in 11:13 to lead the Falcons to the team championship. Saratoga ran up a low 37 points to finish well ahead of Santa Clara (57) and Monta Vista (78). Fremont (99) was fourth, with host Lynbrook (108) fifth and Westmont (120) sixth. Daniels was second for the Falcons, with Alex Shoor fourth in 11:25 and Jake Christopherson fifth in 11:26. Westmont's Tasin Fetto was sixth in 11:26, with Doug Cameron of Fremont seventh in 11:27, Aman Sirohi of Lynbrook eighth in 11:28 and Eric Fontes of Fremont ninth in 11:29. Kniskern led the Prospect girls to a team title with her third-place finish. Kristi Cangiamilla was seventh in 14:00, with Elizabeth Giles eighth in 14:12 and Alison Prehn 10th in 14:19. Lauren Adams of Monta Vista finished fourth in 13:54 to lead the Matadors to a second-place finish behind Prospect. Sarah Blake-Burke was fifth in 13:55, with Yvonne Bailey ninth in 14:18 for the Mats. Saratoga finished third in the standings. In regular season action earlier in the week, Prospect ran to an easy 15-44 win over Independence in the Santa Teresa Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League. The Prospect girls are now 6-0 in their division. Kniskern was third in the league race, covering the 2.51 miles at Santa Teresa Park in 19:02. Giles was fifth in 19:27, with Cangiamilla sixth in 19:32. The Westmont girls lost 18-39 to Leigh, and the Westmont boys fell 21-37 to Leigh despite Fetto's third-place finish in 15:37. [ Back to Contents Page | Saratoga News Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Saratoga News, November 4, 1998. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.