Patti McGarvey
Special to the Sun

On Oct. 24 Kern Valley’s cross country teams traveled to the Mt. Sac Invitational where they had 20,000 athletes competing this year.

For the Lady Broncs, Jenna Criswell raced in the freshman division and had a great race. Criswell finished in eighth. Stamps and Lawhon raced in the sophomore race. Lawhon came in 70th place and Stamps came in 106th.

In the varsity race Byrket came in 59th, while Sierra Hazard came in 65th. Tyack was 72nd and Hinkey finished in 80th place.

The Broncs also ran at the Mt. SAC invitational in their different divisions. Hodge ran in the sophomore race and finished in 67th place.

Woodward, Joey Pistocco and Sam Nang ran in the Varsity race. Woodward came in 149th place. Nang finished in 195th place and Pistocco came in 197th.

Lady Broncs

On Oct. 29, Kern Valley traveled to Frazier Mountain. Head coach Hazard said, “The girl’s ran well and took first, second, third, fourth and fifth place to win with a sweep.

Fifteen points is a perfect score in cross country so it was a solid victory.

Criswell finished in first place and set a course record with the time of 27:29.

Sierra Hazard came in second place with the time of 28:11, Tyack placed third with a time of 28:13 and Byrket came in fourth place with her time of 29:38. Hinkey rounded out our top five and finished in fifth place with the time of 30:53.

Frazier Mountain has a really hard course with lots of hills and sand so the times look slow but the girl’s were working hard,” Hazard said.

Lawhon came in seventh place at 33:05 and Stamps finished in tenth place with the time of 36:01.

“We are currently tied for first place and the league championship will be determined today when we will race all of the teams from the High Desert League.”

Hazard went on to say, “The girl’s have a good chance of bringing home the second league championship in school history,” said coach Hazard.

Broncs

On Oct. 29 at Frazier Mountain Jake Hodge ran hard and came in second place with the time of 22:36, Chris Woodward came in fourth with the time of 26:34, and Joey Pistoccco finished in seventh place with the time of 27:46.