Freshman Cross Country Athlete, Jenica Dodge (Former Whitney HS) once again led the lady beavers by winning the Big 8 Preview Meet at Granite Regional Park on Sept. 13th.  After finishing 2nd overall in the Fresno Invitational last week (with her 18:43), she posted the same time again at the Panther Invitational with a 45 second gap  over the next place finisher.

Freshman Laura Cox (former Sheldon HS) was the next beaver finisher in 13th overall with 20:31 followed by freshman Jocelyn Stillwell (Dixon HS) in 17th at 21:05.   ARC sophomore Jocelyn Schmidt (Bella Vista HS) was 19th in 21:08, followed by Freshman Mayra Villa (Piner HS) in 22nd with her 21:27.

Rounding out the top seven for the beavers included Freshman Autumn Edgar (Bella Vista HS) 26th in 22:42 and Freshman Maria Rojo (King City HS) 27th in 22:50.

In addition, Freshman Sydney Simmen (Elk Grove HS) finished 32ndin 23:25.

"It was a better team performance for us than last week in Fresno, but we are still without our complete squad.  We are looking forward to next week In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park at the Lou Vasquez Invitational for much better team result", says Coach Powless.

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