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Falcons run hard to a Central Park win
Sardella, Yow are 1-2 in the frosh-soph race
By Dick Sparrer
It's still pretty early in the 2001 high school cross country season, but you can't blame Saratoga coach Marshall Clark if he's wearing a bit of a smile.
Clark certainly had good reason to smile last Thursday when all of the teams of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League came together for the annual Central Park Invitational in Santa Clara ... because the Falcons won it all in the boys varsity division.
Individual champion Will Kraemer led the Falcons to the team title with a close victory over Karl Skucha of Wilcox.
Kraemer covered the 2.3-mile course in 11:38.3 to finish exactly four seconds ahead of Skucha.
The Falcons ran up a low 53 points to win the title. Wilcox was second with 70 points and Milpitas was a close third with 71 points.
Cupertino's Steve Orton nailed 11th in 12:36.3 with Jeff Whitsett of Lynbrook 14th in 12:43.0, Brian McDonough of Cupertino 15th in 12:43.6, Mike Sweeney of Monta Vista 16th in 12:44.7 and Julian Kolev of Monta Vista 22nd in 12:52.4.
Rick Trevino was the top finisher for Fremont, running 13:26.0 for 39th. Clay McKell of Los Gatos was 41st in 13:37.3 and Joseph Feizadeh of Homestead was 52nd in 13:59.4.
Michelle Beritzhoff led the Los Gatos girls to a team fourth by romping to a sixth-place finish in 14:32.8. The Wildcats finished behind Gunn, Milpitas and St. Francis in the Santa Clara run.
Freshman Alicia Follmar was eighth in 14:35.1 to pace the Saratoga girls to a team sixth.
Homestead sophomore Rebecca Boyle covered the course in 14:48.0 to finish 13th overall with Monta Vista soph Dana Underwood 14th in 14:49.9.
Cupertino's Amy Wong was 16th in 14:55.0 with Francine Lee of Lynbrook 19th in 15:06.0, Christine Yow of Monta Vista 22nd in 15:21.3, Ellen Zeng of Monta Vista 25th in 15.24.3 and Aya Wakabayashi of Lynbrook 28th in 15:30.8.
Junior Kassy Korobkova was the first Fremont finisher, running 57th in 16:52.8.
Austin Sardella of Fremont, Jacob Osborne of Saratoga and Tori Tyler of St. Francis were other Central Park winners.
Sardella, a sophomore, ran to a win in the boys frosh-soph division, edging Monta Vista freshman Jason Yow by just over two seconds and Lynbrook soph Eugene Berson by six seconds.
Sardella was first in the division in 12:43.1 with Yow second in 12:45.4 and Berson third in 12:49.9.
Sardella led the Firebirds to the team title in the division with his individual victory.
Randal Polgar (sixth in 13:06.0), Dennis Campos (13th in 13:40.3), Min Park (16th in 13:49.5) and Samatar Mohammed (35th in 14:27.6) were other top finishers for Fremont.
Yow's effort sparked Monta Vista to a team second. Alex Chen (seventh in 13:14.3), Howard Chang (12th in 13:39.5), Aaron Sommer (24th in 14:04.4) and Hadi Kho (36th in 14:30.0) rounded out the top five for the Matadors.
Cupertino freshman Jason Yih finished 11th in 13:36.1 with Saratoga's Steven Surrette 20th in 13:59.6 and Conway Teng 21st in 14:01.1.
Andrew Hao (25th), Jason Whitsett (27th) and Allen Change (28th) also ran well for Lynbrook.
Chris Cook was the Homestead leader, finishing 55th in 14:59.2.
Osborne raced to a first-place finish in the boys junior varsity division, but Saratoga had to settle for a second-place finish behind Monta Vista in the team standings.
Osborne won the race in 13:20.4 with Makato Endo of Monta Vista second in 14:00.3.
James Kao (fourth), Wynn Chang (10th), Justin Lee (16th) and Aaron Nankin (23rd) joined Endo to make up the top five for the Matadors.
Fremont freshman Itamar Haritan was 20th in 14:54.3, Lynbrook's James Lee was 31st and Leo Honda of Homestead was 67th to figure as the leaders from their schools.
Tyler finished first to lead the St. Francis girls to a team title in the junior varsity division.
Evelyn Oling was third in 16:01.4 to lead Monta Vista to a team second in the division. Katherine Chu was seventh, Yu Xuan Shi 15th, Joy Kim 18th and Veronica Peschansky 27th for the Mats.
Lynbrook's Soo Lee was 26th and Homestead's Stephanie Skidmore was 64th in 18:24.3.
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