Kempner girls beat Austin

BEAR CREEK PARK - Senior Zelda Abadom led the girls team to a 32 point advantage over the Austin Lady Bulldogs garnering her first Athlete of the Week Award for this season. The girls team finished 9th and Austin was 10th. Zelda's time of 13:53 led the squad who packed the first through fourth runners in just 26 seconds. Hiba Kreidie ran 14:02, Katherine Toy ran 14:03 and Briana Gifford ran 14:19. Junior Gina Keidel ran as the valuable 5th man with a 14:59 giving the total pack time a little over a minute spread.

On the boys side Shalin Dalal garnered a 13th place medal to lead the team with a 3 mile season opening time of 16:44. David Koistinen ran 17:29, Matt Cortez ran 17:31 and Errol Hampton was able to have a pretty good race even after doing a high set of intervals on Thursday by running 17:52. Shanup Dalal was critical, running an 18:39. These were all season bests for the Cougs as it was their first three mile race.

The sub-varsity races were as follows:

JV Boys (3 miles)
Evan Bogdan 20:30
Chris Ysais 20:58
Marcos Anaya 20:59
Jimmy Luong 21:34
Joe Green 22:48
Roberto Arguello 28:16
Nelson Fuentes 30:59

JV Girls (2 miles)
Jena Deitrich 15:30
Macy Ramos 15:48
Angela Cortez 16:00
Chelsea Nelson 17:09
Sahar Halim 17:20
Lillian Dominguez 17:21

Freshmen Boys (2 miles)
Scott Vilas 12:39 (medaled with a 12th place finish)
Danillo Arcane 14:48
Jose Vilche 16:20
Nathan De Jesus 17:03

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