The team traveled to Fresno this weekend to preview the State course and came away with an impressive showing. The 33rd annual Clovis invitational hosted the team as the boys varsity finished 8th out of 29 in their divisional race and the girls varsity was 14th out of 23. The boys junior varsity was unscored. On the strength of their results the boys have moved up to the 5th ranked division 4 team in southern section.

For the boys varsity Jose Almaguer was once again the leader with a 16:42 mark on the 5km course to finish 29th out of 208. For those unfamiliar with the metric system that is roughly 5:23 a mile. In 31st place and mere feet behind Jose was Anthony Rivas with a clocking of 16:43. Anthony gave it his all and sprinted to the finish just barely being edged out at the line by the 30th place finisher. Alexander Gonzales finished 44th with a time of 17:00 even. In 52nd was Adrian Mejia recording a time of 17:09. Rounding out the scorers was Isaac Gomez who completed the course in 17:26 for a 68th place finish. This provided a time spread of 44 seconds first to fifth finisher and the top 4 were a mere 27 seconds apart. the strength of the team is truly it's team spread. Keeping the spread going Hugo Valdovinos placed 71st with a 17:27 and Jordan Mendoza was 80th with a 17:36 to bring the total team spread 1st to 7th to a scant 54 seconds. Excellent job boys.

The ladies stepped up to the competition as well. Kiana Hope sporting a new hair style still left rubber on the road as she powered to a 12th place finish with a clock reading of 19:20. Charging in next for the girls was Jordyn Vassaur with a time of 21:18 and a place of 72nd. In 88th place with a time of 21:52 was Maria Villalobos. Lucia Diaz drove through the chute in 22:06 for 92nd place as Alexis Tafoya returned from an injury to complete the course in 22:45 to finish 114th. Amanda Vassaur was 136th in 23:55. There were a total of 168 competitors in the race.

The boys junior varsity team was led by Jaime Magdaleno who was 82nd in 17:57. Jovani Oregon was next for a 135th place finish in 18:35. Justin Beach gave his all as he breathlessly placed 142nd in an 18:30 clocking. Christian Rodriguez zoomed to an 18:33 finish for 148th overall. Sammy Martinez sped to a 179th place bid in 18:49. Vincent Chavez and Frank Chavez completed the squad with respective times of 19:06 and 19:26. Vincent was 206th while Frank was 234th. There were a total of 443 runners in the race.

Up next for the Flashes is the mid season TVL meet. The team will travel to La Reina to challenge the rest of the league on the mountain that is La Reina's course. Action begins at 3:30pm on Thursday.