North Boys & Foothill Girls Take Team Titles

A new invite by a new school brings a small field to Independence high school. Being on the same day as the McFarland, is unfortunate and diluted both local events especially on a weekend when many teams look to travel out of town as well.

Despite all of the above, it looks like both the boys and girls races were good close races for the most part. In the boys race, Sandles (photo) won in a time 17:03 on the 5k course. He was followed by one athlete from each of the other competing schools.

In the end, North won the invite and was lead by Lopez who came in 3rd in a time of 17:52. The host took second by a point over Foothill. The results would have been different if Foothill's number one runner Jose Lopez had run the race.

Independence Invitational

Boys at Independence; 5K course

Team scores--North 30, Independence 46, Foothill 47

Individual results--1. Sandles, GV, 17:03; 2. Bautista, F, 17:42; 3. Lopez, N, 17:52; 4. Facho, I, 18:08; 5. Mosqueda, N, 18:11; 6. Davalos, N, 18:17; 7. Fisher, I, 18:25; 8. Garcia, F, 18:29; 9. Gamino, GV, 18:30; 10. Kostner, I, 18:34.

JV Foothill 42, North 43, Golden Valley 77, Independence 80

FS Foothill 35, North 43, Independence 50

The girls race was won by Natalie Fernandez (21:20) who lead her Trojans to the team win and has been improving with each meet this season. At the EB invite, the North's two girls beat her.

Girls at Independence; 5K course

Team scores--Foothill 37, North 50, Independence 52, Golden Valley 74

Individual results--1. Fernandez, F, 21:20; 2. Veloz, F, 21:29; 3. Moyer, N, 21:43; 4. Perez, N, 21:46; 5. Webb, I, 22:01; 6. Ingram, I, 22:07; 7. Sullivan, I, 22:08; 8. Marsala, F, 22:23; 9. Silva, GV, 22:47; 10. Perez, N, 22:56.

JV Golden Valley 21, Independence 34

FS North 16, Foothill 49, Independence 64

Independence Falcons Cross Country Invitational

Independence Falcons Cross Country Invitational

• Athletic.Net Meet Results HERE.
  

Saturday, Sept 19, 2009 - 9 am
Independence HS
8001 Old River Rd.

This is a brand new invite for a school in their second year in existence.

Race schedule
FS Girls 9:00 am 2 miles
FS Boys 9:20 am 2 miles
JV Girls 9:40 am 2 miles
JV Boys 10:00 am 2 miles
Varsity Girls 10:20 am 5k
Varsity Boys 10:50 am 5k

Awards
Top 10 per FS and JV race, Top 15 in each Varsity race
Trophy to the top 2 teams per race

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To State In First Year

Last year two new schools opened up in Bakersfield and started with only freshman and sophomores. Neither competed in SEYL or the SWYL so little was known about Mira Monte or Independence except that they were young and had very similar school colors. I did note that Independence had a good size squad and was coached by the long time West High coach.

Well, Independence had some individual success right off the bat with Acacia Ingram placing 5th at valley and she qualified for the state meet.

 4.   112  IND-BAK/Independence - Bakersfield                       (  23:16  1:56:17)

1      5  Acacia Ingram                  So    187     5   21:34
2     12  Katelynn Webb                  Fr    188    12   22:20
3     21  Natalie Ambriz                 So    190    24   23:02
4     36  Carlie Croxton                 So    191    46   24:40
5     38  Sara Sullivan                  Fr    189    48   24:41
6   ( 46) Shelby Woolf                   Fr    192    60   25:54
7   ( 58) Samantha Antu                  So    193    74   26:41

Womens 1600 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	6:03.12		Natalie Ambiz		Independence	CE	Frontier Frosh-Soph Relays	04/04/09
2	6:04.6		Savarese'Bianca		Independence	CE	Freeway League Meet CE	04/30/09
3	6:06.6		Webb.Katelynn		Independence	CE	Freeway League Meet CE	04/30/09
4	6:07.7		Ambriz:Natalie		Independence	CE	Freeway League Meet CE	04/30/09

Womens 3200 Meter
Rank	Mark		Name	Grade	School	Section	Meet	Date
1	13:39.50		Katelynn Webb		Independence	CE	Frontier Frosh-Soph Relays	04/04/09
2	13:55.8		Webb!Katelynn		Independence	CE	Freeway League Meet CE	04/30/09
3	14:18.6		Savarese Bianca		Independence	CE	Freeway League Meet CE	04/30/09
4	15:18.63		NatalielAmbiz		Independence	CE	Frontier Frosh-Soph Relays	04/04/09

95:07 - Team Time - 19:02 average by Independence at Valley 08

This will be their second as a school and they still will not have any seniors at the school. Facho was clearly their top runner and his 17:32 is a good time on the Woodward course. The rest of the squad needs to drop some serious time to be competitive in the future.

95:07 - Team Time - 19:02 average by Independence at Valley 08

10. 303 IND-BAK/Independence - Bakersfield ( 19:02 1:35:07)

1 17 Dwayne Facho So 195 17 17:32
2 62 Daniel Putney Fr 197 62 19:08
3 65 Daniel Fisher So 196 65 19:10
4 73 Amritpal Singh So 199 73 19:24
5 86 Robby Kostner Fr 200 86 19:53
6 ( 97) Isaac Reyes Fr 198 97 20:15
7 (115) Mikey Washington So 201 115 21:05