A Day at the Beach

The Morro Bay Invitational was run under cloudy and cool conditions which lead to ideal racing conditions. The course, which changes yearly due to tide and dune conditions was measured at
roughly 2.6 miles. No team scores are kept at this fun and unique event.

In the boys race, Centennial's Eric Millan (So) had the fastest time of 16:04 (6:10 pace) and came in 16th overall. The top Taft athlete was freshman Phillip Taylor, who ran 17:57 for 81st place.

VARSITY BOYS
Place Time first Last Grade School
1 14:53 Sergey Sushchikh 11 DP
16 16:04 Eric Millan 10 Centennial
57 17:16 Nick Treiberg 10 Centennial
68 17:26 Hayden Raney 11 Centennial
69 17:27 Brandon Ballard 11 Centennial
81 17:57 Phillip Taylor 9 Taft
87 18:03 Brad Hinsley 11 Centennial
95 18:13 Joel morentin 10 Taft
100 18:33 Devin Capela 11 Taft
102 18:45 Chris Lopez 9 Taft
103 18:45 Travis Morro 11 Taft
104 18:45 Michael Hernandez 10 Taft
106 19:05 Misael Pelayo 12 Centennial

In the girl's race, Taft's Megan Thompson (12) was the fastest Kern County athlete. She ran the course in 19:08 (7:22 pace) for 11th overall and Margret Martinez was the top Golden Hawk with a time of 21:03.

VARSITY GIRLS
Place Time first Last Grade School
1 17:53 Annie Mooney 11 Mission College Prep
11 19:08 Megan Thompson 12 Taft
48 21:03 Margret Martinez 12 ?
50 21:13 Daisy Guitron 10 Taft
53 21:19 Chloe Carlson 9 Centennial
76 22:54 Jordyn Perry 10 Centennial
77 23:00 Melissa Megar 11 Centennial
78 23:00 Elizabeth Sanchez 11 Centennial
79 23:02 Sarah Moore 11 Centennial
80 23:03 Nayomi Velasquez 11 Centennial
81 23:37 Lillybeth Pedroza 10 Taft
83 23:41 Melissa Ballard 9 Centennial
88 24:58 Mayra Aguilar 12 Taft
89 25:15 Justine Montelongo 9 Centennial
91 25:35 Bernice Florez 12 Taft
94 28:03 Marion Ruan 10 Taft

Complete Results HERE.

Photos HERE.

A Driller Gets His First Cross Country Win

Coach Armour (Centennial) reports some preliminary results:

It was hot day at South High like it was most everywhere today. The course at South was like many on campus courses with lots of running back and forth on the same course which leads to some confusion especially amongst the inexperienced harrier.


Coach Armour was please with his first wins (as a head coach) but knows that many challenges lie a head in the SWYL. This Friday they are off to the Hanford Invite and the face defending SWYL champs Ridgeview next week.

Boys:
Centennial 17, South 41 At South

1. Raney, C, 18:16; 2. Bailey, C, 18:17; 3. Ballard, C, 18:24; 4. Montelongo, C, 18:28; 5. Echeverria, S, 18:30; 6. Castro, S, 18:32; 7. Treiberg, C, 19:02; 8. Millan, C, 19:05; 9. Meraz, S, 19:11; 10. Cortez, S, 19:31.

JV Centennial 15, South 50; FS Centennial 21, South 32

Girls:
Centennial 16, South 43 At South

1. Braughton, C, 21:18; 2. Melgar, C, 23:42; 3. Velasquez, C, 23:46; 4. Peery, C, 23:51; 5. Castro, S, 23:56; 6. Sanchez, C, 23:58; 7. Moore, C, 24:07; 8. Espinoza, S, 24:50; 9. Ghuman, S, 25:09; 10. Cuevas, S, 26:02.

JV South won by forfeit; FS Cent.d. South

Boys Frosh / Soph Girls Frosh / Soph

Score: CHS 23 South 32 Score: CHS 15 SHS Forfeit. Mirimonte had runners

1. CHS Peter Melendez 13:36 1.CHS Melissa Ballard 16:35

2.SHS Jose Salgado 13:37 2.CHS Mallory Hearron 17:00

3.CHS Dominic Olivio 13:52 3.CHS Justine Montelongo 18:53

4.CHS 4. CHS

5.SHS 5.Mirimonte

6.CHS

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Boys JV JV Girls

Score: CHS 15 South 47 Score CHS 9 SHS 20 (CHS had 2 runners)

1.CHS Dustin Rojas 12:14 1. CHS Priscilla Gomez 16:22

2.CHS Mitch Carpenter 12:56 2. SHS

3.CHSJake Smoot 13:05 3.SHS

4.CHS 4.SHS

5.CHS 8.CHS

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10.CHS

Varsity Girls Varsity Boys

Score: CHS 16 South 43 Score CHS 17 South 41

1. CHS Jorey Braughton 21:18 1.CHS Hayden Raney 18:16

2. CHS Margaret Martinez 21:54 2.CHS Craig Baily 18:17

3.CHS Melissa Melgar 23:42 3.CHS Brandon Balllard 18:24

4.CHS 4.CHS Jerrod Montelongo 18:28

5.SHS Gabby Castro 23:56 5.SHS Manuel Echeverria 18:30

6.CHS 6.SHS

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10.SHS 10. SHS

Does the Early Golden Hawk Catch ...

My running camp meets at Yokuts Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6am and 6pm and today I ran into the Centennial cross country team. The team is in good hands with first time head coach Vondre Armour at the helm.

This is their second coach in two years after the retirement of the only coach Centennial every had. Randy Jones won a boys and girls valley title in cross country in 2007 and then retired from coaching. He now teaches at Golden Valley.

Last year, Monica Morley's dad coach the squad and this year former Driller great Vondre Armour (state 800 champ) is the head coach. It is still weird seeing Vondre in red but after a successful stint as the distance coach for track last season, the Golden Hawks are looking towards the future and hoping to repeat the past.

This morning they all arrived around 7am as my runners were leaving and I decided to hang out for awhile and see what is happening with program. Vondre had over 20 boys and ten plus girls for this early morning workout. He said they have been running at Yokuts, Riverwalk and the Panorama Bluffs this summer. Today, they were doing a low key time trial (see photo) where the frosh/soph got a head start. As I was leaving the first were finishing up.

Knowing Vondre and his background of good coaches at Bakersfield High and Arizona State, I am sure he will be rebuilding the program quickly. We both commented that having Ridgeview and Stockdale in your league was a tough nut to crack especially since Ridgeview was recently ranked by DyeStat as a top 100 team in the state.

Then there is Stockdale that was ranked number 5 in the super tough division one. Now for years Centennial was division 2 but were rewarded with their valley wins in 2007 by being bumped up to one. Hopefully the powers that be will go back to an enrollment only criteria and let a school compete against similar sized schools.

But despite all the obstacles, look for Centennial to be a much improved squad over last year.

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Golden Hawks Look To Return to the Top

In 2007, they won the division two valley title. In 2008, they got moved to the super tough division one and had a new coach. This year they have quite a few expected returnees and some of them had a good track season too.

Look for Folsom, Martinez and Braughton to be the nucleus of their comeback in the super tough SWYL that Centennial ruled since the school opened.

 8.   233  CEN-B/Centennial High - Bakersfield                      (  22:08  1:50:36)

1     37  Jessica Crowe                  Sr    296    37   21:28
2     40  Jessica Folsom                 Fr    297    40   21:39
3     47  Margaret Martinez              Jr    299    47   22:05
4     52  Kelsey Dahl                    Sr    298    52   22:17
5     57  Jorey Braughton                Jr    302    57   23:07
6   ( 60) Stephanie Dittman              Jr    301    60   23:21
7   ( 65) Paige Anderson                 Jr    300    65   25:34

Womens 1600 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	6:08.06		Jessica Folsom		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09
2	6:16.9		Jorey Braughton	11	Centennial	CE	Buchanan Distance Classic	02/27/09
3	6:23.1		Margaret Martinez	11	Centennial	CE	Buchanan Distance Classic	02/27/09
4	6:23.66		Sarah Moore		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09
5	6:41.99		Jordyn Peety		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09

Womens 3200 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	13:06.31		Jorey Braughton	11	Centennial	CE	West Coast Relays	04/04/09
2	13:23.72		Jessica Folsom		Centennial	CE	West Coast Relays	04/04/09
3	14:09.07		Sarah'Moore		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09
4	14:40.64		Allie!Shaffer		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09
5	15:18.50		Jordyn Peety		Centennial	CE	Liberty Frosh-Soph Invit...	03/27/09

90:57 Team Time - 18:12 average by Centennial at Valley 08

90:57 Team Time - 18:12 average by Centennial at Valley 08

10. 256 CEN-B/Centennial High - Bakersfield ( 18:12 1:30:57)

1 38 Nathan Vincent Sr 303 38 17:32
2 47 Ty Heiter So 304 47 17:52
3 52 Eric Millan Fr 306 52 18:08
4 56 Gehrig Smith Sr 305 56 18:26
5 63 Brad Hinsley So 307 63 18:59
6 ( 66) Jake Howry Jr 309 66 19:29

It is hard to predict how Centennial will do this fall, in 2007 they won a valley crown and their longtime coach retired. In 2008, a new coach took over who was not going to return. The school even had an ad in the paper that they were looking for a new coach. Then I heard that the 2008 coach would return.

The Golden Hawks did have some success this year in track with the addition of former driller great Vondre Amour (state 800 champ) on the staff. So perhaps it will carry on this fall

Mens 1600 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	4:46.01		Ty;Heiter	10	Centennial	CE	Reedley Invitational	05/01/09
2	4:54.22		Brandon Ballard	10	Centennial	CE	Reedley Invitational	05/01/09
3	5:20.19		Hayden Raney	9	Centennial	CE	Reedley Invitational	05/01/09
4	5:30.9		Misael Pelayo	11	Centennial	CE	Buchanan Distance Classic	02/27/09

Mens 3200 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	11:26.6		Brandon Ballard	10	Centennial	CE	Buchanan Distance Classic