McFarland Girls swept the 15 - 19 age group

I know 1st and 2nd are from McFarland and I assuming the third girl is too. This fall expectations are high for the Lady Cougars and they hope to get a valley title like the boys do every year.

Class: F 5k 15-19 - 5k Female 15-19 5k
1 180 GARCIA, Corina 15 21:29.0 0
2 179 TORRES, Kathy 15 23:13.6 +1:44.6
3 187 CASTRO, Gabby 17 25:50.1 +4:21.1
4 228 SCRIVANO, Sarah 16 26:18.9 +4:49.9
5 59 DRAVIS, Maddy 18 30:08.8 +8:39.8
6 62 DIAZ, Argelia 19 30:28.9 +8:59.9
7 161 BENITEZ, Elizabeth 16 31:03.4 +9:34.4
8 244 BARRON, Chelsea 17 31:32.5 +10:03.5
9 250 HELM, Brooke 15 32:23.0 +10:54.0
10 201 ROY, Alexis 19 34:08.9 +12:39.9
11 236 HADDAD, Chelsea 18 37:31.5 +16:02.5
12 91 MORALES, Olivia 19 37:37.4 +16:08.4
13 127 ORTIZ, Karyn 17 38:03.9 +16:34.9
14 153 WITTMAN, Jessica 19 40:11.5 +18:42.5
15 166 GALINDO, Jessica 15 55:37.9 +34:08.9

Female 14 and Under 5k at HATM was won by Andie Condie

Andie ran a very good time for a 12 year old. She is a very good track athlete and just recently returned to the states after spending six years in the middle east.

Her times in a recent Cairo, Egypt meet were 11:14 (3K), 2:34 (800m), and 5:20 (1500m).

Class: F 5k 14 Under - 5k Female 14 and Under 5k
1 177 CONDIE, Andie 12 23:51.2 0
2 184 ARGUELLO, Megan 14 29:59.1 +6:07.9
3 238 SHUFORD, Rachel 14 32:22.1 +8:30.9
4 115 MORRISON, Mackenzie 14 32:35.0 +8:43.8
5 111 TESCH, Hannah 8 33:38.3 +9:47.1
6 408 REESE, Chevelle 14 36:54.3 +13:03.1
7 220 GALLAND, Emily 14 38:36.2 +14:45.0
8 327 WAVESPACK, Maggie 9 39:43.8 +15:52.6
9 329 WAVESPACK, Ellie 5 39:46.9 +15:55.7
10 92 PARNELL, Gail 13 41:01.1 +17:09.9
11 305 ROUS, Caroline 6 1:06:22.8 +42:31.6

A New Sandbox for Mr. Hatley - He wins Male 50-59 5k at HATM

Deeter and Weinmann (see photo) have been ruling the 50 - 59 sandbox but now Carl has joined them. Deeter ran the Rock the Pier and won his age group and Carl took the Howlin' 5k with a nice sub twenty performance.

I have called him Mr Hatley ever since last fall's youth cross country meet. Carl coaches a large group of kids from Lamont and at the meet, they had an adult race before the kids races. As Mr. Hatley ran the multi-looped course, his athletes ran about cheering him on with "Go Mr. Hatley!, Go Mr. Hatley!"

Class: M 5k 50-59 - 5k Male 50-59 5k
1 257 HATLEY, Carl 50 19:56.0 0
2 254 WEINMANN, Cregg 53 20:34.0 +38.0
3 274 RIEL, David 56 21:28.5 +1:32.5
4 39 LECRONE, Scott 57 22:22.6 +2:26.6
5 140 FLORES, James 50 22:24.2 +2:28.2
6 53 BEESON, Dale 53 22:39.4 +2:43.4
7 30 WHITAKER, Wally 55 23:45.9 +3:49.9
8 163 GRUNDIES, Glen 50 25:01.2 +5:05.2
9 290 BERCKES, Ken 52 25:27.7 +5:31.7
10 55 RICHARDSON, Don 51 25:37.0 +5:41.0
11 145 NEWMAN, Stanley 51 26:28.9 +6:32.9
12 248 BURKE, Steve 52 27:08.9 +7:12.9
13 12 BURICH, David 52 28:12.2 +8:16.2
14 213 CASTRO, Nelson 56 28:25.2 +8:29.2
15 41 SEGURA, Pedro 51 29:39.4 +9:43.4
16 256 HANSON, Mike 57 31:58.6 +12:02.6
17 289 NANCE, Rod 55 32:02.8 +12:06.8
18 170 TERRY, Richard 52 32:18.3 +12:22.3
19 164 EDWARDS, David 51 33:20.2 +13:24.2
20 139 ALVIDREZ, Andy 59 34:01.7 +14:05.7
21 142 LEWIS, Michael 56 35:15.8 +15:19.8
22 191 WILSON, Bob 50 39:28.8 +19:32.8
23 157 ERIC, Bollier 53 39:32.6 +19:36.6
24 104 WAHL, Brad 50 39:46.0 +19:50.0
25 265 GUICE, Rod 54 42:51.1 +22:55.1
26 318 DURAN, Ron 54 44:34.0 +24:38.0
27 36 WALTERS, Steve 55 44:53.4 +24:57.4
28 214 BURCH, John 58 47:47.6 +27:51.6
29 122 HERNANDEZ, Able 55 48:45.2 +28:49.2
30 313 SCHWARTZ, Richard 59 51:11.8 +31:15.8

Setser wins Male 30 to 39 at the HATM

Fresh off a 200 mile hike through the Sierra Nevada, Coach Setzer (Ridgeview) out ran the McFarland coach by over a minute.

Adam (blue shirt in photo) had a very good year and his future looks bright too. His boys and girls XC teams won SWYL titles and his girls won a valley crown in 2008 too. In track, his boys won a SWYL and were very competitve in the valley track team competition.

When speaking of valley titles, McFarland has been winning them forever and Coach Ayon has continued the tradition of Coach Jim White who won nine state titles with McFarland. In 2005 they came in 5th at state, 2006 - 4th, 2007 - 3rd and in 2008 they came in 2nd. So this should be their year!

If you would like to support the Mcfarland team, please go run their summer series and race of champions.

Male 30-39 5k
1 263 SETSER, Adam 36 21:19.2 0
2 207 AMADOR, Ayon 39 22:45.6 +1:26.4
3 218 RAMIREZ, Francisco 38 23:36.3 +2:17.1
4 42 SMITH, Scott 38 24:24.8 +3:05.6
5 133 JAQUEZ, Tony 33 24:26.3 +3:07.1
6 19 GOODSPEED, Brent 35 25:10.2 +3:51.0
7 143 LINDSEY, Kirby 39 25:11.8 +3:52.6
8 165 SWAT, BPD 35 26:41.9 +5:22.7
9 272 GILDNER, Justin 37 26:44.0 +5:24.8
10 275 MARCIA, Roderick 38 26:55.6 +5:36.4
11 243 BARRON, Jesse 39 28:21.3 +7:02.1
12 65 WOESSNER, Mason 33 33:05.6 +11:46.4
13 99 CAMPBELL, Matt 30 34:24.4 +13:05.2
14 199 MYERS, Kirk 33 35:10.6 +13:51.4
15 309 PEARSON, Bryan 31 35:15.2 +13:56.0
16 156 GONZALEZ, Xavier 35 37:13.7 +15:54.5
17 141 KENNY, Sean 38 37:29.3 +16:10.1
18 234 MAZZONI, Stefano 30 38:49.8 +17:30.6
19 269 FEILLE, Bill 38 43:58.1 +22:38.9
20 210 GOMEZ, Armando 38 1:06:14.4 +44:55.2

Male 20-29 5k at HATM was Won by Lucker

Lucker also pulled the Rock to Pier / Howlin double with a fourth in the morning and a first overall in the evening. His 16:04 in the evening was a very good time even without all the traveling and the six hard miles in the morning.

Ryan runs for CSUB which because of Title Nine does not have a men's cross country team so Lucker only gets to compete in track. Lucker ran for Stockdale in high school and was telling us how unlucky he was with division changes.

When he started at Stockdale, they were D2 and then moved to D1. As any Driller can tell you, it is super hard to make state in D1 as a team (impossible) or individual. The lower divisions are a lot easier. Then at CSUB, they have moved from D2 to D1 but what can a guy do.

In second was his teammate in 17 flat. Third was three minus behind Lee.

Class: M 5k 20-29 - 5k Male 20-29 5k
1 296 LUCKER, Ryan 22 16:04.2 0
2 292 LEE, Edward 22 17:00.5 +56.3
3 245 EUCCE, Chris 25 20:04.7 +4:00.5
4 235 SALAZAR, Ty 26 21:31.3 +5:27.1
5 14 SMITH, Tom 24 24:17.0 +8:12.8
6 281 GRANUCCI, Matthew 26 25:03.7 +8:59.5
7 94 ROBERTS, Scott 21 26:37.9 +10:33.7
8 160 SOTO, James 28 28:13.1 +12:08.9
9 232 NEWMAN, Daniel 22 29:38.7 +13:34.5
10 282 AQUINO, Larry 23 30:07.2 +14:03.0
11 88 HALLUM, Ryan 23 32:34.2 +16:30.0
12 173 GARCIA, Eddie 29 35:48.6 +19:44.4
13 252 BASSETT, Tyler 20 46:12.2 +30:08.0

Male 15-19 5k at HATM 09 was won by Oscar Fuentes in 16:35

Oscar ran for East and will be a sophomore at Cal Poly SLO this fall. He pulled of a nice double with a 7th place finish at the Rock to Pier in the morning and then took second overall at the HATM 5k in the evening.

In second was Robby (see thumbs up guy) who will be a senior this year at Ridgeview. His squad won SWYL and just missed going to state as a team. Robby made the state XC as an individual. In 6th and 7th were a couple of his teammates as well. Triandous is a very good 400 runner and it is good to see him running a 5k so well. He and Robby helped Ridgeview win a SWYL track till this year too.

Another sprinter type of sorts who came in 8th was Ariel, who made it to valley in the 300 hurdles this year. He also ran XC for Highland and was often the important 5th man on the squad. He will running for BC this fall.

often mcFarland shows up to this event in numbers but this year, their coaches ran and only one athlete did. Calvo came in 4th.

In 5th, was Damon Sandles who will be a junior at Golden Valley and with the graduation of the 900 lb gorilla (Chris Schwartz), has a shot at an individual SEYL title this fall.

In 11th, was Burke of Stockdale (Jr) who was one of the top 800 runners around this year. He was consistently under two minutes for the two lap event.

Class: M 5k 15-19 - 5k Male 15-19 5k
1 463 FUENTES, Oscar 19 16:35.2 0
2 149 BAKER, Robby 17 16:37.4 +2.2
3 70 WHITEHEAD, Josh 18 17:28.5 +53.3
4 311 SANDLES, David 15 18:25.9 +1:50.7
5 206 BRYAN, Calvo 17 18:52.9 +2:17.7
6 186 HOBSON, Triandous 17 19:05.3 +2:30.1
7 279 HERNANDEZ, Chris 17 19:08.8 +2:33.6
8 194 HURTADO, Ariel 18 19:41.5 +3:06.3
9 138 TENNEY, Mitch 15 19:48.6 +3:13.4
10 90 MORALES, Max 16 21:21.1 +4:45.9
11 249 BURKE, Stephen 16 22:03.3 +5:28.1
12 69 JOHNSON, Keenan 18 22:15.6 +5:40.4
13 40 LECRONE, Merritt 19 22:16.3 +5:41.1
14 68 WHITEHEAD, Seth 15 22:47.0 +6:11.8
15 205 PITCHER, Ryan 18 22:56.7 +6:21.5
16 66 NIEDERHAUS, Will 15 23:01.6 +6:26.4

Male 14 and Under 5k at HATM 09 was won by Elber Fuentes

Elber (Cousin of Oscar and will be a freshman at East this fall.) ran a very good time for a 13 year old over a fairly large field of 19 athletes. In fourth, was Scrivano (his three siblings have also run cross country for the Drillers) who will be running for BHS this fall and in 6th was Van Matre who will be a future Driller following in his brother David's footsteps.

Place Bib Name Age Time Behind
Class: M 5k 14 Under - 5k Male 14 and Under 5k
1 231 FUENTES, Elber 13 18:56.5 0
2 128 SAMORA, Nathan 14 20:06.0 +1:09.5
3 78 MULLEN, Troy 14 20:17.2 +1:20.7
4 227 SCRIVANO, Kevin 14 21:10.2 +2:13.7
5 83 BARTON, Derrick 14 22:28.6 +3:32.1
6 277 VAN MATRE, Scott 13 23:27.2 +4:30.7
7 175 REEVES, Derek 14 25:00.3 +6:03.8
8 307 ROUS, Charlie 8 25:40.9 +6:44.4
9 306 ROUS, Parker 9 25:42.5 +6:46.0
10 224 NEWMAN, Thomas 14 26:03.8 +7:07.3
11 240 CASTRO, Joseph 10 26:26.5 +7:30.0
12 221 GALLAND, Alex 12 29:26.6 +10:30.1
13 294 GILBERT, Josh 13 29:38.0 +10:41.5
14 260 SCOGGINS, Austin 14 29:46.0 +10:49.5
15 49 CHIVINGTON, Jacob 9 32:59.8 +14:03.3
16 200 BEY, Ryan 11 35:17.8 +16:21.3
17 328 WAVESPACK, Jack 7 39:52.1 +20:55.6
18 86 COON, Ethan 9 46:07.7 +27:11.2
19 100 COON, Parker 12 49:01.2 +30:04.7

Hits Close To Home ...

After my 17 year old son had finished the 10k and braved the long ling for water, we decided to leave the Howlin' at the Moon race before the awards were presented. As we headed home on Stockdale, we noticed that one could not turn left on Calloway and there were quite a few police in the area. We figured there was a fender bender and went on our way home.

The first I heard of what happen was from Robby Baker's mom who wrote me about the tradegy. We knew it was a 17 year old boy and that he was hit by a car and was in critical condition. Immediately, I did a quick roll call of all the local athletes I knew that fit the description and was certain it was not any I knew.

Later media reports said he was from out of the country and I thought oh no. Back in May, a real nice parent contacted me about my club the Bakersfield Distance Project. The family was from Bakersfield but had lived in Doha, Quater (working for an oil company) for the past six years and was looking for a club for their 12 year old daughter to train and compete with.

We exchanged emails and I refered them to a group to train with when they got back to Bakersfield on June 26th. Less then three weeks after arriving back in the states, this horrible accident happen.

In their emails, they did not mention their son, but the pieces came together. I saw their daughter finish the 5k and the victim had just returned to the states. So I was pretty certain who it was. Then on Monday, local media contacted me about the accident and asked if I had any photos of the 17 year old.

Usually I would of because I try to shoot everyone in the race from several locations but my cameras do not work well in the dark and it was really dark out there. I also found out the name of the victim but I believe the media has the spelling of the last name wrong. I have chosen not to publish his name.

When I did google his name, I did find track meet results for him back in 2002 and he was a good age group distance runner before his family left the states. So he was an experienced runner and came from a family that participated and supported athletics.

What exactly happen that night may never be known, but it was a perfect storm of sorts. One can only hope he makes a complete recovery and that lessons are learned from this accident.

Teen Critically Injured During "Fun Run"

A teenager was critically injured Saturday during the Howlin' at the Moon Run fundraiser for Bakersfield Police Department's K-9 unit. Friends of the boy's family say he is in critical condition after accidently running off the course the family says wasn't clearly marked.

For eight years, the Howlin' at the Moon run has been a “fun run” to raise money for the Bakersfield Police Department’s K-9 Unit. It takes place after the sun goes down, but this year's run ended with sirens and bright lights.

Chancell Tyler Conde, 17, was running along the course and took a wrong turn, ending up on the busy intersection of Calloway Drive near Stockdale Highway. He was struck by a car.

A friend of the family says Conde is an experienced runner but didn't know the race course well because he lives in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar most of the year.

Detective Mary DeGeare of the Bakersfield Police Department says glow necklaces were used to help light the way.

“The course was marked with these glow necklaces so at points on the course where it was very dark the glow necklaces were supposed to guide the way,” DeGeare said. “The investigation is ongoing so we don’t know why he went up to Calloway Drive but certainly if we have the race next year we will make modifications.”

Runners told 17 News the glow necklaces were missing when they reached the forked pathways, and the teenager was just one of many who went off course. Most of the runners who spoke to 17 News were from the area and knew the path well but were still confused when they reached the split paths because it was so dark out. Several othere runners reportedly picked up the glow necklaces while the race was ongoing, making it hard to see which path was correct.

Bill Dolan has been riding on the path since the late 80s and rides on the path at night only if he has his bike light attached.

“Because there's no lights around here it really is hard for a bicyclist without a headlight,” Dolan explained. “A runner might get by but I can see how they could miss things that they need to see here.”

Dolan says at planned night-time events, like the run, extra signs, volunteers, or lights should be put in place to direct runners to the right path.

Police say the driver who struck Conde was 19-year old Casey Geiger. Geiger, suspected of being under the influence of marijuana, was tested and released pending the drug test results.

Online court records show Geiger pled no contest to charges from a misdemeanor battery arrest last year and was arrested in October on suspicion of misdemeanor possession and use of a controlled substance.

A family friend of the Condes tells 17News Chancell Conde is in critical condition at Kern Medical Center and will be in surgery late tonight or tomorrow.