Burroughs Cross Country Weekly Newsletter – 2018 Cross Country Season
Week of September 10, 2018
Mojave River League Cluster #1 Produces Boys and Girls Contenders!
The Burroughs High School Cross Country program traveled to Serrano for the first Mojave River League meet and came away showing they are contenders for league championships and CIF post season competition. Both the boys and girls showed poise and patience on the difficult hilly course and finished strong placing second in the girls’ and boys’ varsity races, as well as the boys’ junior varsity (only four girls competed junior varsity so did not have the necessary five runners to score as a team). In doing so, individual and team records were broken for the course in both the girls’ and boys’ races. This was a result of their confidence to manage their performance and overcome all but Serrano in the league.


Your confidence in yourself, each other, and team will lead the way to your success.

Boys Report
The Burros placed second on the varsity and junior varsity races. The varsity team put on a late surge in the last mile to nearly win losing by only three points 32- 35 to host and defending league champion Serrano. Serrano is ranked 44th overall in the state of California and tenth ranked in division two of the Southern Section of CIF. This is a very significant indicator as to our team strength and potential to either win league or at least qualify as one of the top three teams in league resulting in a CIF preliminary berth. The team placed four runners in the top ten and were again led by senior Josh Washburn placing second in a school record 16:45.8 (previous record: Dallas Chipman 17:01 in 2016). The team time of 86:48 also was record (previous: 87:00 in 2016). The conditions were much warmer this time as the previous record was set in cool October weather.

Varsity                                                                                 Team Scores
    2. Josh Washburn – 16:45.8 (school record for the course)       1. Serrano       32
3. Bryce Hill – 16:51.3, personal record (PR)            2. Burroughs       35
5. Ben Washburn – 17:11.7, PR                    3. Apple Valley 74
9. Michael Hoyer – 17:50.8, PR                    4. Sultana       117
16. Vonn Roy – 18:08.7, PR                    5. Oak Hills       118
​23. Michael Dillon – 19:01.7                    6. Hesperia       159
32. Jason Irvin – 20:16.7

The junior varsity boys also finished second and were led by Gage Stewart in 13th place (19:40.7), followed closely by Rudy Richards 14th place (19:42.7).

Junior Varsity                            Team Scores
13. Gage Stewart – 19:40.7                    1. Serrano       15
14. Rudy Richards – 19:42.7                    2. Burroughs       56
16. ZJ Hoffmann – 19:58.8                        3. Apple Valley 86
17. Caden Goeppinger – 19:59.2                    4. Hesperia       129
19. Adrian Riendeau – 20:18.3                    5. Sultana       136
20. Sam Abernathy – 20:19.2                    6. Oak Hills       158
23. Derek Kallberg – 20:47.7
31. Isaac Rogers – 21:04.6
34. Bryan Juarez – 21:10.2
41. Andrew Mower – 21:57.7
49. James Coppersmith – 23:02.3
50. Mace Riddle – 23:16.1

Girls Report
The Lady Burros placed second and managed to stop Serrano from finishing 1st – 7th for the first time in seven MRL meets while placing three runners in the top ten. Freshman Leah Tomlinson led the way finishing 6th and setting a new school record for the course in 20:37.3 (previous record: Julia Ernst 21:33 in 2016). The team time of 109:14 blew away the old record by almost nine minutes (previous: 117:01 in 2016). This was a significant effort for the girls’ program as they will continue to try and do something no other girls’ team has done before, qualify for CIF Finals.

Varsity                                Team Scores
5. Leah Tomlinson – 20:37.3 (school record for the course)    1. Serrano       17
6. Madeline Acosta – 20:54.0, PR                    2. Burroughs       51
10. Alana Nagy – 21:43.2                        3. Apple Valley 77
13. Kylie Griffith – 22:41.8                        4. Oak Hills       114
17. Elliotte Abernathy – 23:18.4                    5. Hesperia       126
38. Taylor Frisbee – 27:22.2                    6. Sultana       135
42. Victoria Pillars – 29:09.5

The junior varsity had only four runners so did not have the necessary five runners required for a team but ran well. They were led by Natalie Gilbert in 18th place (27:53.2).

Junior Varsity                            Team Scores
18. Natalie Gilbert – 27:53.2                    1. Serrano         15
27. Janelle Flores – 31:37.0                    2. Oak Hills         57
31. Sheridan Lewis – 33:19.3                    3. Apple Valley   72
38. Kathleen Faulkinbury – 44:11.8                4. Hesperia         98