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2009 Eastern Athletic League Championships |
Thursday, November 5, @Foothill High School, Palo Cedro, California |
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Photos by Tom Cushman/Hay Bale AC |
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| The varsity girls EAL Championship race is on with front of the pack flooded with runners from Chico and Pleasant Valley
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| Chico's Kody Atkins battles Shasta's Lora James as the girl's varsity race makes its initial hill climb
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| Right behind the leaders, finds runners from Chico, PV and Enterprise lead by Paradise freshman Annie Stratton
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| Chico 2-6 runners remain tightly punched just past the mile mark in the varisty girls race.
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| The leaders in the varsity girls race, pass through the finish area on the course's final hill.
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| Amanda Costa surging away from her teammate to battle Oroville's Sarah Brandt over the final hill on her way to a third place finish.
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| Kody Atkins off the final hill first, comfortably ahead of Red Bluff's Lily Brose and Shasta's Lora James.
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| Pather Heather Waldorf and Oroville's Sarah Brandt battling for postion
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| Chico's Analy Nava, Lorena Reed pulling away from PV's Kelsey O'Sullivan off the last hill
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| Chico victory looks assured heading into the woods the final time as Atkins (not pictured), Costa, Grant, Waldorf, Nava and Reed all in the top ten
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| Chico's Azure Grant finishes a strong fifth to claim first team all league honors
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| Chico's Jacob St. Claire finds himself in a battle with runners from Shasta and Foothill
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| This time the final sprint comes up a little short for Heather Waldorf as Oroville's Brandt holds on to seventh.
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| The start of the JV girls race finds Chico well represented near the front in a race that ends up being another Chico-PV dual
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| EAL JV Boys Champion Dallas Thorpe(481), battles crosstown rivals Kyle Truelove, Cody Miller
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| Kathryn Westlund, PV's Katelyn Schneider take point during the hill climb on the Foothill course, Westlund eventually takes second to teammate Karina Carrillo seen off her left shoulder
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| Enterprise's Domenic D'Acquisto heads through the finish area on his way over the hill the final time, where a twisted ankle ends his race
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| Dan Parker, Dusty Gibbs, Tom Dowdin and Tony Moore in the battle for third as head toward the final hill climb.
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| Enterprise's Zach Kaylor off the hill alone and in the lead as ankle sprain takes teammate out of race on top.
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| Chico sophomore Alex Thomas, heading into the woods the final time, pulls away from Enterprise's fifth runner seen in background
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| Chico's Dan Parker opens some space over Shasta's Tony Moore in the race now for second
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| PV's Payton Laurie holds off Foothill's Garrett Cloney who's superior finish clips Panther Chas Burton at the line while further back, Viking Marc Steiner opens up a little daylight on Red Bluff's top runner
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| Freshman Panther Gary Thornton takes fourth in the boys JV race
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Note: Please excuse the poor image quality of the varsity boys race as camera was inadvertently left in the wrong mode
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