Hornet Records

Hornet X-Country - Meet Summaries

Cross Country Photos - 2007-08
courtesy Ed Jay

- North Coast (NCS) - League Championship -
- Mt Sac - Crab Cove - Joaquin Miller - Clovis/Fresno - Artichoke Invitational - SPSV/Kennedy -
- RAM Invitational - St. Marys/Albany/Encinal - Farmer Invitational - Joaquin Miller Scrimmage - 

NCS Championship
Hayward 
Saturday, November 22

MEN

When we set out at the beginning of the XC season, the Varsity boys had a goal: win League and make it to State Championship. Although we fell short by the smallest of margins -- 6 points to 3rd place team Santa Rosa -- I could not be any prouder of their efforts. Six of seven had their personal best times and they continued to run as a team; only 50 seconds separated from the 1st to the 6th runner. As a comparison to the 2007 NCS team, overall time was (1:25:09), average runners' time (17:01) for 3 miles. The 2008 NCS team overall time is (1:22:01), average runners' time (16:24) for 3 miles.

The Hornets were led by Charles Perkins with a new school record for the Hayward course of (15:59); followed by Liam Davis, 2nd (16:17); Zachary Perkins, 3rd (16:29); Alex Colvin, 4th (16:37); Daniel Lebe, 5th (16:39); Scott Nickell, 6th (16:50) and Albert Chu, 7th (17:55).

Again, I am so proud of what these boys accomplished this year! And with our top 3 runners returning next year, we will compete again for a State meet berth.

NCS 2008 / NCS 2007

~ Thanks, Coach Nino

WOMEN

We ran our last race of the year today and did very well. There were 117 runners that completed the race and we all placed between 58th and 75th, so there were a lot of people behind us. There were 569 girl runners in all 5 divisions, and our division had three of the top four times in all of the races including the top two times all day. Those of you that ran the varsity race in Sept at Hayward all improved your times--Linnea by 4 seconds, connie by 26 seconds, Gina by 6 seconds and Stephanie by 48 seconds, Lindsi ran in the F/S race in Sept and it is hard to compare the two races, but she ran 14:58 in the two mile race and there is no way in my mind that at that time she could have run the third mile at the same pace---so she improved as well. Linnea was our leader as she has been all year she ran 21:45 in 58th place, Connie a great run in 21:52 and 62nd place, Gina was 67th in 22:09 with Stephanie close behind in 22:13 for 69th, Kaila was 73rd in 22:30 and Lindsi was 75th in 22:38. All of you ran hard as was evident in your faces and acheys after the race, I am so proud of all of you. Jessica did not finish the race, but she did what she was told and left the field when she felt her knee and ankle begin to hurt more than any of us wanted. You all have so much heart and worked so hard in this race and all season, thank you all. Also thanks to McCaulay and Megan who were there and supportive and willing helpers to me. I do not coach for the love of this sport, I coach for the wonderfulness of you girls who are so willing to put yourselves through all it takes to compete in this difficult sport. By the end of the season, I am ready for it to be done from the standpoint of dealing with all the issues (driving, weather, injuries, decision-making, league championship work etc.) however, I always feel the loss of you good friends at this time of the year and it takes me a few days to become un-sad. 

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and I look forward to award's nite, although that final evening always leaves me in another funk for a few more days.

For those of you who have not brought in your warm-ups---Nino will be at school on Monday and would like the unis brought in then so he can store them and not have to wait until award's nite to do that---also we will sell our old (clean) warm-up jackets on that nite for $15 if you would like one. Thanks again for giving me something worthwhile to do in my life and for sharing yourselves and families with me. Love, Bruce

~ Love, Coach Bruce

League Championship
Kennedy Grove, San Pablo. 
Friday, November 14

  MEN

Congratulations to all the JV and Varsity boys-the 2008 ACCAL XC champs.

It has been a long season but I cannot be any prouder than all the JV and Varsity boys who participated in the league championship.

The JV boys swept the first eleven spots led by David Vergara, first place, 12:15; followed by Brandon Sepp, 2nd, 12:21; top freshman runner John Tupasi, 3rd, 12:24; Daniel Higuchi, 4th 12:31; Michael Bugarin, 5th, 12:36; Brendan Hoye, 6th, 12:38; Tyler Parsons, 7th, 12:43; Will Colvin, 8th, 12:56; Taylor Hadidian, 9th, 13:11; Chris Chui, 10th, 13:14; Michael Hoye, 11th, 13:18. Other great performances were Emmanuel Boquiren 13th, 13:26; Jamie Kelly 16th 13:38; Billy Be 17th 13:43; Calvin Fong 19th 13:51; Ryan Hunter 23rd 14:11; Ryan Rafferty 24th 14:16: Nick Liu 25th 14:18; Brandon Roper 29th 14:52; and Andres Vargas-Johnson 30th 14:53.

Varsity boys were led by Charlie Perkins, 4th place overall at 17:53; followed by Liam Davis, 5th 18:09; Scott Nickell 6th 18:15; Zach Perkins 7th 18:37; Trevor Araujo 8th 18:59; Alex Colvin 9th 19:03 and Dan Lebe 13th 19:34.

The Varsity boys continue to embrace the team concept by running as a pack, thereby capturing six of the top ten places overall in the league championship race to become the ACCAL champions.

~ Coach Nino

  WOMEN

I AM TIRED... you guys wore me out---I was out helping set up the course around ten and then they had me running around at the race---and then I had to strain my voice telling everyone how good you all were.

JV:
Admittedly we did not have a huge amount of competition in the JV race, however, many of the girls that ran in the varsity race were really JV level performers and I am quite sure we would have done as well against most if not all of them. In the JV race we got some great performances and it is nice to go 1 through 9 regardless of whom you are running against. Clare clearly ran her best race as she improved all year long and became the JV champ w/ a time of 15:47, then we had three girls under 17 minutes---Emily in 2nd at 16:08, McCaulay at 16: 19, and freshwoman Dido who ran her best race in 16:39, followed by Taylor 5th in 17:08, Tati 6th in 17:28, Fran 7th in 17:35, Amanda 8th in 17:48, Grace ninth in 18:02 and Claudia 13th in 18:36. Claudia, Taylor, Tati and Fran have been good friends to me for years and they ran their last C/C race in high school---I hope they enjoyed their time with me and the team.

Var:
For the varsity---we overcame a strong day by Berkeley and became the pennant winning ACCAL champs. We faced much more difficult runners in the BSAL but we were third in that league running against StMary's, who have a shot at winning the State meet in D-4 and Piedmont who might get to the State meet also in D-4, so we have done well and have had a great season with at least one race left. Linnea has led our team all year long and did so again today. Running a credible 2nd place against the reigning 800m track star from Richmond she came in at 23:11 a scant minute behind the Richmond winner, Connie has had a great senior season and was 4th overall in 23:47, Gina was 6th in 24:00, Freshwoman comer Lindsi was 7th in 24:40, followed by K.C. 25:12(12th), Stephanie (13th) 25:16 and Megan in 14th at 25:49. There were 35 runners in the race so we did very well. Thanks to J.B. who reluctantly didn't run for the sole purpose of helping me. Practice again on Monday as usual. I plan to get us to Hayward one day next week and have a pool workout one day so get out your bathing suits and be prepared. Monday will be a run day. It was a nice day for us---lots of medals and ribbons and the team pennant and great runs by all. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication. 

~ Coach Bruce

Mt. Sac Invitational
Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. Sac) Walnut, CA. 
Saturday, October 25

  MEN

Despite missing 3 top Varsity runners, the boys placed 15th out of 30 teams in their heat.

The Varsity boys was led by Alex Colvin, 24th 16:36; Liam Davis, 34th 16:43; Scott Nickell, 81st 17:29; Albert Chu, 112th 18:20; followed by newcomers Daniel Higuchi, 142nd 19:06; Michael Bugarin, 146th, 19:18; and Chris Chui, 155th 19:50.

Great efforts by all!

~ Coach Nino

  WOMEN

We went down to L.A. this past weekend and had a great trip---a lot of fun and some good running. The bad news was that we had to run at 7:30 in the morning and the good news was that we got to run at 7:30 in the morning---hard to get up and go, but great running conditions. Four girls broke the 22 minute mark when none did it last year. Linnea led the way again for us and got herself on the all-time list in 19th place w/ a time of 21:08, K.C. made it on the list as well w/ her time of 21:50 followed by Gina at 21:51 (just missing the list), Connie 21:52, Stephanie 22:40, J.B. at 23:10 and Lindsi with her time of 23:22. Thanks to Jessica's mom Jen for being our friendly helpful chaperone/driver and to Megan who gave up her spot to Connie and supported us and helped us all have a better time. 

~ Coach Bruce

Crab Cove (Holy Names, Encinal, Berkeley, St Joe's, Piedmont & St. Mary's)
Alameda
Wednesday, October 22

  WOMEN

We ran at Crab Cove today with 8 teams in attendance and did well as we finish our BSAL competition---here are the girl's results:

The varsity girls beat everyone there today except Piedmont and St. Mary's---that includes: Holy Names, Encinal, Berkeley, and St Joe's, and it ends the BSAL season in which we finished third. There were 45 varsity girl runners---Linnea once again finished first for our team with a time of 21:17 in 12th place, followed by Connie in 16th at 22:20, moving up J.B. in 22nd at 22:35, Gina in 23rd at 22:36, Lindsi also moving well in 26th at 22:59, Megan in 28th at 23:06, K.C. 30th in 23:18, McCaulay 38th in 25:59 and Taylor 39th in 26:23. The winning time for the var was19:29. In the JV race Emily was our top finisher taking 6th out of 51 runners w/ a time of 16:37 followed by Clare in her best race at 10th in 16:49, Fran 16th 17:24, Dido 18th in 17:41, Grace 22nd in 18:27, Claudia 25th in 18:40, Tati 26th in 18:41, and Amanda 28th in 18:42. The winning JV time was 15:25

~ Coach Bruce

  MEN

In our most impressive team effort, the JV and Varsity boys had their best performances to date. Our top 5 JV and Varsity runners defeated the top 5 of all other 5 teams: St. Mary, Piedmont, Berkeley, Encinal and Kennedy.

Leading the JV boys was freshman John Tupasi, 3rd at 12:49; Michael Bugarin, 5th 13:02; Tyler Parsons, 7th at 13:04; Daniel Higuchi, 8th at 13:05; Brandon Sepp 10th at 13:09; followed by Brendan Hoye, 11th at 13:10; Chris Chui 14th at 13;29; Taylor TJ, 15th at 13:30, Michael H. 21st at 13:43; Calvin Fong, 23rd at 13:57; Dagnachew G., 24th at 13:58; James K. 26th at 14:01; Billy Be, 30th at 14:15; Emmanuel 37th at 14;20; Ryan H., 39th 14:22; Brandon Roper, 40th 14:24; Ryan R., 46th 14;42; and Andres VJ., 63rd 15:35.

The Varsity boys running in a tight pack, placed 5 runners in the top 11 places. Leading the pack was Liam Davis, 5th 16:34; Charles Perkins, 6th 16:36; Zach Perkins, 8th 16:41; Dan Lebe, 10th, 16:46; Alex Colvin, 11th 16:47; Scott Nickell, 16th 17:42; Trevor Araujo, 20th 17:52; and Albert Chu, 26th 18:20. Thirteen seconds separated our #1 through #5 runners which is OUTSTANDING.

Thanks,
Coach Nino

Joaquin Miller (Kennedy, Salesian & Piedmont)
Oakland Hills
Thursday, October 16

  WOMEN

The girls ran the dreaded Joaquin Miller course today (10/16) and while it was difficult and we had a few people sick and slightly injured we all survived (even I, who suffers as you all do). 

Also I presume we all learned some things about how to approach this course. 

Running for the victorious JV team were McCaulay in third place with a record list achieving time of 17:54, Emily also making the list at 17:56 in 4th place, Clare in 5th at 18.01, Fran 6th 18:04, Taylor 7th 18:24, Tati 8th 18:27, frosh Dido 9th 18:33, Claudia 13th 19:04, and Amanda 16th 20:58 out of 21 runners --- great job by all. 

In the varsity race we were pretty well swamped by the strong Piedmont team that was running in their house --- nevertheless we all tried hard and worked the hills as well as we were able on what I consider the hardest course we run on. 

Linnea and Connie made it onto the varsity JM course record list w/ times of 25:50 and 26:13 respectively, followed by K.C. in a big finish 26 :34, Gina pushing through some pain in 27:33, freshwoman comer Jessica Burns in 28:08, hardworking Megan in 28:20 and the other newbie Lindsi Tu sniffled her way through her cold in 28:27.

~ Coach Bruce

  MEN

The JV and Varsity boys performed very well despite the tough course at Joaquin Miller.

JV Boys
The JV boys was led by Michael Bugarin, 1st place overall, at 13:27; followed by Will Colvin, 6th at 13:42; Brandon Sepp, 7th at 13:44; Tyler Parsons, 9th at 13:49; Brendan Hoye, 10th, 13:53; Dan Higuchi, 14th at 14:18; John Tupasi, 15th at 14:23; Taylor Hadidian, 16th at 14:24; Chris Chui, 17th at 14:39; Jaime Kelly, 18th at 14:42; Michael Hoye, 25th at 15:06, Billy Be, 28th at 15:12; Emmanuel Boquiren, 29th at 15:14; Calvin Fong, 32nd at 15:35; Dag Gebreselassie, 33rd at 15:36, Brandon Roper, 38th at 15:48; Steve Thon, 35th at 15:40; Ryan Hunter, 36th at 15:41; Andres Vargas-Johnson, 43rd at 16:26; and Nick Lui, 45th at 16:29.

Varsity Boys
Congratulations to the Varsity boys for their best overall team effort.
Led by Charlie Perkins, 1st place overall at 19:13, Scott Nickell, 2nd at 19:32; Liam Davis, 3rd at 19:57; Alex Colvin, 5th at 20:03; Zach Perkins, 6th at 20:08; Dan Lebe, 7th at 20:09; Trevor Araujo, 11th at 22:00; and Albert Chu, 12th at 22:37.

Great team efforts by JV and Varsity boys!

~ Coach Nino

Clovis Invitational 
Fresno
Saturday, October 11

Congratulations to the Varsity boys for their overall good performances at the Clovis Invitational.

Leading the Hornets was Liam Davis who placed 30th overall at 16:47, followed by Charlie Perkins, 75th at 17:18; Alex Colvin, 82nd at 17:21; Dan Lebe, 95th at 17:31; Scott Nickell, 107th at 17:39; Zack Perkins, 132nd at 18:09 and Albert Chu, 143rd at 18:25.

As we head towards the last month of the season, I look forward to the Varsity boys continuing to come together as a team.

~ Coach Nino

Artichoke Invitational 
Half Moon Bay
Saturday, October 4

Congratulations to all the boys for their outstanding efforts at the Artichoke invitational.

Frosh Boys:

Soph Boys:

JV Boys:
Congrats to David Vergara for placing 1st overall in his JV race.

Varsity Boys:
Congratulations to the Varsity boys for their outstanding efforts by taking 3rd place team overall at the Artichoke invite led by Charlie Perkins at 12:32.

This should be a good precursor to NCS and possible state meet berth!

~ Coach Nino

St. Patricks/St. Vincents & Kennedy 
Crab Cove
Thursday, October 2

Congratulations to JV and Varsity Boys for sweeping both JV and Varsity races led by Michael Bugarin and Charlie Perkins, respectively.


JV Boys:

1. Michael Bugarin- 13:11
2. Will Colvin - 13:11
3. Tyler Parsons -13:24
4. Brendan Hoye -13:26
5. Daniel Higuchi- 13:29
6. John Tupasi -13:30
7. _____________
8. Chris Chui-13:44
9. Taylor Hadidian-13:44
10. _____________
11. Michael Hoye-13:49
12. James Kelly-13:59
13. Brandon Roper- 14:14
17. Calvin Fong- 14:27
18. _____________
19. Dagnachew Gebreselassie-14:43
20. _____________
21. Billy Be-14:44
22. Ryan Hunter-14:54
23. Emmanuel Boquiren -14:54
24. Steve Thon -15:16
25. _____________
26. Nick Liu-15:49
30. Andres Vargas-Johnson-16:12

Varsity Boys:

1. Charlie Perkins-16:34
2. Liam Davis-16:49
3. Scott Nickell-16:54
4. Dan Lebe-17:15
5. Zach Perkins-17:23
6. Alex Colvin-17:32
7. David Vergara-17:45
8. Albert Chu-18:01
9. Trevor Araujo-18:12

~ Coach Nino

RAM Invitational 
Daly City
Saturday, September 27

Congratulations to all the boys who ran in the RAM Invitational! All runners improved between 15 to 45 seconds over the 2007 times.

The Freshman race was led by John Tupasi, 26th overall at 15:23; followed by Emmanuel Boquiren, 68th 16:43; Billy Be, 83rd 17:11; Steve Thon, 84th 17:12; and Nick Liu, 100th 17:44.

The sophomore race was led by Will Colvin, 14:48; Michael Bugarin, 14:53; Tyler Parsons, 15:17; and Ryan Hunter, 17:51.

The JV boys were led David Vergara, 14:15; Chris Chui, 15:54; Daniel Higuchi, 16:00; James Kelly, 16:15.

The Varsity boys was led by Alex Colvin, 13:18; followed by Charlie Perkins, 13:23; Scott Nickell, 14:08; Dan Lebe, 14:20; Albert Chu, 14:43; and Trevor Araujo, 15:06.

St Mary’s, Albany & Encinal 
Tilden Park
Thursday, September 25

JV Boys

Congratulations to JV Boys for the outstanding efforts!

Taking first place overall is Brandon Sepp, 10:19; followed by Will Colvin, 10:35; Tyler Parsons, 10:39; and Michael Bugarin, 10:42, placing 6th, 7th and 8th respectively. Brendan Hoye placed 10th at 10:44; rounding out the top 5 for Alameda. Below are the complete results:

Final Score: 

Varsity Boys

Varsity boys were led by Scott Nickell 3rd place at 17:31; Liam Davis, 6th at 17:54; Alex Colvin, 7th 18:08; Albert Chu, 17th 19:21; Zach Perkins, 19th 19:41; Trevor Araujo, 20th 19:44; Dan Lebe, 21st 19:27; David Vergara, 24th 20:27; and Charlie Perkins, 31st 23:58.

Final Score: 

~ Coach Nino

Farmer Invitational 
Hayward High
Saturday, September 20

Congratulations to the Varsity boys who placed second overall in the Farmer Invitational placing four runners in the top 15. Charlie Perkins led the team by placing 4th overall in 16:09, followed by Alex Colvin, 9th 16:38; Zach Perkins, 14th 16:50; Scott Nickell, 15th 16:51 and Albert Chu, 34th at 17:54 rounding out the Varsity.

JV also placed second overall, placing 3 runners in the top 10, led by David Vergara, 4th 11:25; Brandon Sepp, 5th 11:36; Brendan Hoye, 10th 11:54; followed by Chris Chui 21st, 12:23; Michael Hoye, 25th 12:25; Jamie Kelly, 40th 12:43 and Brandon Roper, 41st 12:46.

The Frosh/Soph was led by Michael Bugarin, 6th overall at 11:29; followed by Will Colvin, 16th 11:55; Tyler Parsons, 20th 12:00; Emmanuel Boquiren, 43rd 12:58; Ryan Rafferty, 47th 13:02; Ryan Hunter, 55th 13:18; Billy Be, 56th 13:19; Nick Lui, 74th 13:46 and Andres Vargas-Johnson, 106th 14:44.

Almost every runner who competed in the 2007 Farmer Invitational improved their times between 15 and 45 seconds in the 2008 Farmer Invite.

Thank you for the great efforts.

~ Coach Nino

Scrimmage: Alameda, Skyline, Oakland, Piedmont and Dublin
Joaquin Miller
Friday, September 5

The results from the scrimmage between Alameda, Skyline, Oakland, Piedmont and Dublin high schools are as follows:

Veteran Boys             Novice Boys
Alameda-31         Piedmont-36
Skyline-65         Alameda-55
Oakland-70         Dublin-75
Piedmont-104       Skyline-97
Dublin-incomplete

Alameda veteran runners led by Charlie Perkins, 2nd place at 11:20; Scott Nickell, 3rd place at 11:26; Liam Davis, 5th place at 11:31; Dan Lebe, 9th place at 11:34; Zach Perkins and Alex Colvin, 12th and 13th place at 11:35 rounding up the top six runners; followed by Albert Chu, 16th place at 12:09, Trevor Araujo, 20th place at 12:34; David Vergara 21st place at 12:35; Will Colvin 24th place at 12:44 and Michael Bugarin, 25th place at 12:54.

Alameda novice runners led by Brandon Sepp, 2nd place at 12:56, in his first race ever. He is followed by Tyler Parsons, 5th place, 13:33; Brendan Hoye, 6th place, 13:36, in his first race ever; and Michael Hoye, 8th place at 13:56, also his first race ever. Placing on 16th is Ryan Hunter at 15:21 and Brandon Roper, 18th place at 15:42.

Congratulations to the Veteran boys for an outstanding margin of victory and an outstanding 2nd place effort by the Novice boys!

~ Coach Nino