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It was 2.1 miles worth of great competition. Saratoga and Monta Vista battled hard against each other in the Lynbrook Invitational on Oct. 27, and in the end it was the Saratoga boys coming out on top.
The Falcons ran up a low 61 points to win the team title with the Matadors on their heels with 62 points.
Monta Vista junior Simon Bill finished the race second overall in 10:41.4, while Saratoga's first runner, junior Brad Jacobs, came in less than 10 seconds later in fourth at 10:50.4.
The Falcon's second finisher, senior Ken Douglas, was sixth overall in 10:58 before Monta Vista's second runner, sophomore Thomas Bill, finished in 11:06.6.
Monta Vista brought in its next finisher before Saratoga. Junior Harold Pan finished 14th in 11:19.3 with Saratoga freshman Alan Menezes 15th in 11:21.8.
Saratoga's fourth runner was senior Henry Barmeier who was 17th in 11:23 and right in front of Monta Vista sophomore Yu Hsiao, 18th in 11:23.8.
Saratoga clinched the win when senior Scott Surrette came in 19th in 11:28 to finish out the scoring for the Falcons.
Monta Vista senior Abhi Vaishnav finished less than a second later in 20th in 11:28.6.
The next closest team to Monta Vista was Homestead with 77 points. Junior Rishi Agrawal came in first for the Mustangs and seventh overall in 10:59.5. Sophomore Alexander Colbeth was ninth in 11:07.7, sophomore Aaron Wong 13th in 11:17.1, junior David Pochowski 21st in 11:29.6 and junior Marcus Gaeta 27th in 11:41.7.
Fremont finished in fifth place as a team, but it was senior Kevin Schneider finishing first overall in the race. The speedy Firebird ran 10:24.1, 15 seconds ahead of the next closest runner. The other point scorers for Fremont were junior Elijah Carillo, third in 10:45.5; sophomore Tom Paschnt, 39th in 11:59.9; sophomore Andrew Yeung, 43rd in 12:18.7; and junior Travis McCleary, 44th in 12:22.2.
Monta Vista was not only successful in the boys meet, but also the girls. The Matadors won the girls race outright with very little competition, scoring only 34 points to 64 for runner-up Homestead.
Monta Vista's success came in no small part due to the effort of three runners. Freshman Jean Fang took first place in 12:02.1 with teammate senior Stephanie Cham second in 12:20.1 and junior Lisa Worsham in fourth in 12:27.2.
A freshman led the pack for Homestead with Laura Pochowski eighth in 12:49.4. Freshman Kristen Peanasky was 10th in 12:53.1, freshman Rachel Moll was 11th in 13:06.7, sophomore Korissa Elderedge was 13th in 13:24.1 and sophomore Taj Forouhari was 24th in 13:50.4.
Senior Bina Patel was the top Fremont finisher, ending up 31st in 14:21.5.
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