Girls: After an early morning light rain cooled Brooks City-Base, the FEAST Home School Girls quickly heated up the course blazing to their third title in three years placing three in the top ten to defeat Texas 5A powerhouse and South Bubble Team College Station A&M Consolidated by 40 points. FEAST, first of 29 teams and 192 runners in the Gold division, was also the fastest squad over seven girls' races run on the 3167 meter course including South Bubble Teams Boerne Champion (1st in 4A) and Deer Park (2nd in 5A). Gabriela Salazar, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Memorial, took individual honors with a fine time of 11:19 over FEAST’s Emily Dunn in 11:36. Boys: Boerne Champion (US #11, South #2) flexed their Texas strength with a no doubt 27 point win placing all seven in the top 11, the scoring five averaging 15:43 with a 39 second spread over the 4908 meter course. Travis Barclay led Boerne with a second place 15:19 behind individual champion Jacob Benn of San Antonio Stevens who ran a strong 15:11. Edinburgh North (108), Corpus Christi Carroll (149), FEAST Home School (236), and Brownsville Hanna (257) rounded out the top five in the 26 team Gold division.
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Ricardo Romo/Six Flags Fiesta Texas Invitational This is going to be a great Region IV Preview for all classes. The race is held at Brooks Air Force base and is the same course they will run later in the year at the Region IV Championships. BOYS TEAMS TO WATCH: Gold race boys will feature Boerne Champion. We rank them #2 overall in Texas just behind Cedar Park and #1 4A. Edinburg North, Killeen Ellison, Feast. GIRLS TEAMS TO WATCH: Gold race girls race will feature A&M Consolidated, Sharyland, PSJA North, Edinburg, Zapata. Course maps (.pdf) · Box assignments (.xls) Cedar Park Invitational (Live Updates on Forum) This is going to be a great Central Texas Showdown. We will get our first good look at #1 Cedar Park. Along with that we will get som answers on the Region II-5A girls competitions with McNeil, Belton, Vista Ridge racing. The Individual races shold be top notch also. We will be onsite taking video and pictures and also giving updates via forum. BOX ASSISGNMENTS