D'Acquisto, Walker run to titles Jeffery Jen/Record Searchlight Thursday November 1, 2007 PALO CEDRO -- One is a junior at a school once known for standout cross country runners, the other is a freshman on his way to possibly being finest runner yet at a program now considered one of the best in the area. What Foothill High School's Julia Walker and Enterprise's Domenic D'Acquisto have in common now is both are Eastern Athletic League cross country champions. Running on her home course Thursday, Walker held off the field in the girls 5-kilometer race to win in 19 minutes, 35 seconds. Less than an hour later, D'Acquisto added to his impressive freshman campaign crossing the finish line first in the boys race in 15:55. The No. 2 runner in the Northern Section, D'Acquisto seized the lead early and never was seriously challenged. Pleasant Valley senior Tanner Hickman was second in 16:20, while Hornets sophomore Zach Kaylor was third (16:36). "I tried to go out 110 percent," D'Acquisto said, "Do my part for the team. At Enterprise, we try to run our first mile and see if we can and maintain it and not lose our spot to anybody behind us." The way he looked, D'Acquisto may have more left in the tank. Though he was well ahead of the field approaching the finish line, the freshman still put in a nice finishing kick to make sure he went under the 16-minute barrier. Likely, he will be one of the favorites, along with West Valley's Trevor Siperek, at Thursday's Northern Sectioncross country championships at West Valley High School. Behind Hickman and fourth-place finisher Dustin Gibbs (16:56), Pleasant Valley scored 44 points to edge Chico (46) for the league title. Enterprise took third (67), followed by Red Bluff (127) and Foothill (130). The top seven runners earn all-league honors with the Spartans' Mat Collins (17:07) winding up seventh to join D'Acquisto, Hickman, Kaylor, Gibbs and Chico's duo of Phil Graber (17:01) and Henry Naas (17:06) on the list. Going into the girls race, Chico's Michelle Johnson was expected to be the favorite. However, it was Panthers teammate Paige Henker who led the field after the first mile. However, when the leading runners entered the woods, some, such as Henker, Johnson, Walker and Red Bluff's Erynn Rebol, took a wrong turn before getting called back onto the course. "We've all run on this course before," Rebol said. "It's just that sometimes you get so focused on the race, you tend to follow the pack. It wasn't anything serious, maybe like 10 feet or so. It probably only added a few seconds on our time." Johnson still got back into the front, but was passed by Walker going uphill. Turns out yet another Chico runner Leah Arreguin would prove to be the stiffest challenge. Walker's lead was only a few meters heading into the woods the final time, but she pulled away to win comfortably in front of the runner-up Arreguin (19:48). "It wasn't until I passed Michelle on the hill that I realized I had a chance," Walker said. "I was originally running for time. "Definitely, this gives me a lot of confidence for the section meet." Rebol took third (20:12) while Johnson was fourth (20:21) as Chico scored 32 points to easily win the girls team title. Enterprise freshman Delanne Bartlett was fifth (20:26) to lead the Hornets into a second-place finish with 47 points. Foothill was third (67), followed by Pleasant Valley (107) and Red Bluff (112). Oroville's Sarah Brandt was sixth (20:27.27) followed by Chico's Jocelyn Courtney (20:27.89) and Henker (20:40). Enterprise's Jerri Spence (20:41) and Melissa McRae (20:56) were ninth and 10th, respectively. PREP BOYS CROSS COUNTRY PV wins EAL final The Chico High and Pleasant Valley boys cross country teams are having a heck of a time trying top each other this season. The Vikings, who fell to the Panthers in the regular season meeting between the two teams, garnered enough wins en route to first place at Thursday's Eastern Athletic League finals meet in Palo Cedro to earn a share of the title. Chico needed to finish in second place to remain even and did just that. Tanner Hickman bolstered PV's cause by taking second in the individual standings with a time of 16 minutes, 20.11 seconds after being beaten by winner Domenic D'Acquisto of Enterprise, who finished in 15:55.85. PV's Dustin Gibbs (16:56.68) was fourth while Chico's Phil Graber (17:01.42) was fifth ahead of teammate Henry Naas (17:06.42) in sixth. The top seven finishers earned all-league honors. Honorable mentions, which account for those who placed seventh through 14th, included Chico's Daniel Parker and Tom Walker, Paradise's Grant Reed and PV's Chad Millard and Jordan Schwarz. PREP GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY Chico rolls for title The Panthers rounded out a strong season with the win at the Eastern Athletic League finals in Palo Cedro by placing three runners among the top seven — the criteria for all-league selections. Leah Arreguin led the way with a second-place run of 19 minutes, 48.16 seconds. Teammate Michelle Johnson was fourth in 20:21.65 and Jocelyn Courtney ended up seventh for Chico in 20:27.89. Foothill's Julia Walker won the individual title in 19:35.08 to help the Cougars take third overall behind second-place Enterprise. Chico's Paige Henker and Analy Nava joined Pleasant Valley's Emily Ogden, who propelled the Vikings to fourth place in the standings, on the honorable mention list of seventh through 14th finishers. 5,000 Meters Varsity plc scr name time yr school ================================================================= 1 1 Julia Walker 19:35.08 Jr FOHL1 2 2 Leah Arreguin 19:48.16 Jr CHIC1 3 3 Erynn Rebol 20:12.15 Jr REBL1 4 4 Michelle Johnson 20:21.65 Sr CHIC2 5 5 Delanne Bartlett 20:26.80 Fr ENTE1 6 - Sarah Brandt 20:27.27 Fr OROV 7 6 Jocelyn Courtney 20:27.89 Jr CHIC3 8 7 Paige Henker 20:40.28 Sr CHIC4 9 8 Jerri Spence 20:41.47 Jr ENTE2 10 9 Melissa Mcrae 20:56.92 So ENTE3 11 10 Emily Ogden 21:02.30 Sr PLVA1 12 11 Michelle Medina 21:06.07 Sr ENTE4 13 12 Emily Stein 21:06.91 Fr FOHL2 14 13 Analy Nava 21:14.86 So CHIC5 15 -- Shannon Woodfill 21:17.82 Fr SHAS 16 14 Breanna Winstead 21:27.39 Jr ENTE5 17 -- Leigh-Ann Krantz 21:38.09 Sr SHAS 18 -- April Griffin 21:49.10 So OROV 19 15 Hailey Bowles 21:53.71 Jr PLVA2 20 16 Alaina Howard 22:06.92 Fr FOHL3 21 17 Lauren Peck-Siebal 22:11.16 Jr CHIC6 22 18 Riley Bullert 22:16.72 Sr FOHL4 23 19 Erin Eicholtz 22:19.66 Fr REBL2 24 20 Rachel Stein 22:25.01 Sr FOHL5 25 21 Tina Murray 22:29.04 Jr FOHL6 26 22 Hayley Breed 22:30.50 Jr PARD1 27 23 Navpreet Kaur 22:33.77 Jr PLVA3 28 24 Amanda James 22:38.61 So ENTE6 29 25 Stevi Dewell 22:45.45 So PARD2 30 -- Katie Brandt 22:55.75 Sr OROV 31 26 Alex Levindofski 22:56.11 Fr REBL3 32 27 Alyssa Alexander 23:06.75 So FOHL7 33 -- Danielle Cristosto 23:20.90 Sr FOHL 34 -- Alisha Gorder 23:32.08 Jr SHAS 35 28 Sarah Ellis 23:34.56 Sr PLVA4 36 -- Andi Slaughter 23:42.68 Sr SHAS 37 29 Amelia Rederburg 23:54.76 Sr ENTE7 38 30 Maria Martinez 24:07.46 So REBL4 39 31 Samantha Courtain 24:20.20 Sr PLVA5 40 -- Aubrey Weber 24:23.06 Jr FOHL 41 32 Signe Cornwell 24:54.91 Sr PARD3 42 33 Ashley Marler 25:05.96 Jr PLVA6 43 34 Samantha Taylor 25:09.81 Jr REBL5 44 -- Marlette Nunez 25:36.60 Sr OROV 45 35 Kayla Ann Coghlan 25:55.00 Sr REBL6 46 36 Molly Makel 26:23.40 Jr PLVA7 47 37 Grace Rhodehouse 26:26.93 Fr PARD4 48 38 4Sumar Cornwell 26:58.92 Sr PARD5 49 39 Caitlin Stamm 27:38.98 Jr REBL7 Varsity Boys Results 5,000 Meters plc scr name time yr school ================================================================= 1 1 Domenic D'Acquisto 15:55.85 Fr ENTE1 2 2 Tanner Hickman 16:20.11 Sr PLVA1 3 3 Zach Kaylor 16:36.94 So ENTE2 4 4 Dustin Gibbs 16:56.68 So PLVA2 5 5 Phil Graber 17:01.42 Jr CHIC1 6 6 Henry Naas 17:06.42 Sr CHIC2 7 7 Mat Collins 17:07.41 Sr REBL1 8 8 Daniel Parker 17:10.11 So CHIC3 9 9 Grant Reed 17:14.02 Jr PARD1 10 10 Chad Millard 17:23.43 Sr PLVA3 11 11 Jordan Schwarz 17:35.53 Jr PLVA4 12 12 Tom Walker 17:44.28 Sr CHIC4 13 13 Chase Henry 17:46.26 Jr FOHL1 14 14 Kyle Clagg 17:52.17 Jr SHAS1 15 15 Chris Cleveland 17:57.76 Jr CHIC5 16 16 Ryan Teesdale 18:00.73 Fr FOHL2 17 17 Jacob Hamada 18:02.84 Fr PLVA5 18 18 Austin Lamkin 18:04.24 Fr ENTE3 19 19 Steve Lizotte 18:07.93 Sr REBL2 20 -- Anthony Ferretti 18:12.08 Jr OROV 21 20 Carson Bee 18:18.62 Jr PLVA6 22 21 Adam Roth 18:18.92 Sr CHIC6 23 22 Garrett Moore 18:19.16 So ENTE4 24 -- Nick Newcomb 18:25.83 Sr OROV 25 23 Daniel Trout 18:32.71 Fr ENTE5 26 24 Ben Crabtree 18:34.78 Jr PARD2 27 25 Matt Stansbury 18:42.93 Jr CHIC7 28 -- Dom Lisa 18:43.55 Jr CHIC 29 26 Colin Roth 18:47.53 So REBL3 30 27 Tim Pullen 18:48.37 Jr PARD3 31 28 Isaiah Boles 18:51.18 Fr ENTE6 32 29 Forrest Garrison 18:59.65 Sr SHAS2 33 30 Dean Lay 19:01.07 Jr PLVA7 34 31 James Panabaker 19:02.30 Jr FOHL3 35 32 Calvin Noetzel 19:05.24 So FOHL4 36 33 Tate Montgomery 19:08.12 Sr PARD4 37 -- Garrick Moore 19:26.93 Jr PLVA 38 -- Jeff Richardson 19:32.45 Sr PLVA 39 34 Harrison Saito 19:37.57 Jr SHAS3 40 35 John Lambert 19:42.95 Sr SHAS4 41 36 Grant Blaser 19:44.09 So REBL4 42 37 Nolan Barnhart 19:44.60 So SHAS5 43 38 Chris Elwood 19:48.38 Sr FOHL5 44 39 Cody Gappa 19:50.54 So REBL5 45 -- Nathan Bouchard 19:51.65 Sr PLVA 46 -- Daven Daniels 19:56.93 Jr OROV 47 40 Allen Nicoara 19:58.12 Sr PARD5 48 41 Brett Hodge 20:04.59 Jr FOHL6 49 -- alex Morales 20:07.49 Jr PLVA 50 -- Weston Crumm 20:18.67 Sr CHIC 51 -- Sam Blickle 20:22.06 Jr CHIC 52 42 Alex Christie 20:25.78 Sr FOHL7 53 43 Kaleb Brady 20:32.39 So PARD6 54 44 Kevin Hendricks 20:39.53 So REBL6 55 -- Nick Rossow 20:52.77 Jr FOHL 56 45 Travis Tenoria 21:32.69 Sr REBL7 57 46 Peter Roman 21:33.63 Jr SHAS6 58 47 Dale Green 22:03.07 Jr PARD7 59 -- Ian Hawkley 22:13.63 Sr PARD 60 -- Ian Allen 22:13.86 Jr PARD 61 -- Chris Daley 22:29.95 Sr FOHL 62 -- Ryan Webb 25:12.44 Jr REBL JV Girls Results 1.9 Miles plc scr name time yr school ================================================================= 1 1 Mariah Atkin 13:10.00 So PLVA 1 2 2 Kelsey O'Sullivan 13:13.00 So PLVA 2 3 3 Katie Erlendson 13:13.50 So PLVA 3 4 - Kelsey Petersen 13:14.01 So ENTE 5 4 Gwen Deeds 13:14.31 So CHIC 1 6 5 Lauren Kaminski 13:21.82 Fr CHIC 2 7 6 Alex Blee 13:26.76 So PLVA 4 8 7 Aubrey Stanley 13:35.65 So CHIC 3 9 8 Jessica Maynes 13:37.44 Fr CHIC 4 10 9 Samantha Kaminski 13:41.56 So CHIC 5 11 10 Samantha Conroy 13:44.43 Fr CHIC 6 12 11 Lauren Francis 13:46.01 So PLVA 5 13 12 Katie Parks 13:46.55 Fr REBL 1 14 13 Estrella Martinez 13:58.96 Fr REBL 2 15 14 Sydney Gillam 13:59.74 Sr FOHL 1 16 15 Sara Brown 14:01.84 Fr REBL 3 17 16 Rhonda Anderson 14:02.15 So REBL 4 18 17 Naomi Coker 14:24.40 So REBL 5 19 18 Shelby Allen 14:26.02 So FOHL 2 20 19 Olivia Williams 14:26.72 So CHIC 7 21 -- Priscilla Frescas 14:28.07 Fr ENTE 22 20 Bhavika Patel 14:37.27 Fr PLVA 6 23 -- Chelsey Davis 14:42.74 Sr ENTE 24 21 Jessica Ly 15:01.35 So PLVA7 25 22 Brittany Fisher 15:07.16 Sr FOHL 3 26 23 Abbrieanna Reyna 15:09.00 So FOHL 4 27 -- Jessie Baur-Swofford 15:10.00 So PLVA 28 -- Amber Moore 15:11.00 Fr PLVA 29 -- Alyssa Marler 15:11.53 Fr PLVA 31 24 Hillary Marsh 15:17.00 Fr FOHL 5 32 25 Brianna Denmark 15:20.00 So REBL 6 33 -- Stepanie Jones 15:40.00 So PLVA 34 26 Salina Strickler 15:51.00 Sr FOHL 6 35 -- Rachel Miller-Doyle 15:55 Jr ENTE 36 -- Rebekah Gordon 15:58.00 Fr OROV 37 -- Nassim Riazi 16:04.00 So PLVA 38 -- Jordan Jarrett 16:20.00 Fr PLVA 39 -- Stephanie Bower 16:39.00 Jr CHIC 40 -- Emily Levine 16:55.00 Fr PLVA 41 27 Taylor Frost 17:03.00 Fr FOHL 7 42 -- Hayley Gillam 17:05.00 Jr FOHL 43 -- Nicole Tenngket 17:23.00 So OROV 44 -- Jessica Solorazano 17:51.00 So OROV 45 -- Kylie Costa 18:07.00 So OROV 46 -- Destiny Bias 18:33.00 So FOHL JV Girls Team Score 1 2 3 4 5 (6 7) =========================================== Pleasant Valley 23 1 2 3 6 11 (20 21) Chico 33 4 5 7 8 9 (10 19) Red Bluff 73 12 13 15 16 17 (25 --) Foothill 101 14 18 22 23 24 (26 27) Enterprise, Oroville had incomplete teams Shasta, Paradise had nobody in the race JV Boys Results 1.9 Miles plc scr name time yr school ================================================================= 1 1 Marc Steiner 10:25.10 So Pleasant Valley 1 2 2 Payton Laurie 10:25.96 So Pleasant Valley 2 3 3 Patrick Franco 10:28.58 So Chico 1 4 4 Alex Thomas 10:45.89 Fr Chico 2 5 5 Shane Dominguez 10:50.82 So Chico 3 6 6 Charles Aylward 10:54.65 Fr Pleasant Valley 3 7 7 David Baumgartner 10:55.56 Fr Chico 4 8 8 Devon Coyl 11:03.57 So Pleasant Valley 4 9 9 Jordan Stevens 11:04.39 So Enterprise 1 10 10 Trevor Capik 11:05.28 So Red Bluff 1 11 11 Ryan Lundberg 11:07.02 Fr Pleasant Valley 5 12 12 Nathan McFarlane 11:08.06 Fr Enterprise 2 13 13 Cameron Olson 11:12.97 So Enterprise 3 14 14 Trevor Roberts 11:14.90 Fr Enterprise 4 15 15 Zach Coyl 11:16.94 So Pleasant Valley 6 16 16 Brendan Green 11:17.53 Jr Pleasant Valley 7 17 17 Anthony Thomas 11:21.41 Jr Chico 5 18 18 Max Davis 11:22.16 Jr Chico 6 19 -- Cory Wheeler 11:24.48 Jr Pleasant Valley 20 19 Jackson Murphy 11:24.95 Fr Shasta 1 21 -- Aaron Ellis 11:35.03 Fr Pleasant Valley 22 -- Phillip Carpenter 11:38.13 Jr Pleasant Valley 23 20 Dan Mejia 11:38.42 Jr Chico 7 24 -- Austin Green 11:41.27 So Foothill 25 -- Tim Duntsch 11:41.97 Jr Pleasant Valley 26 -- Cruz Reyna 11:44.92 Jr Chico 27 -- Matthew Chrisman 11:45.20 Sr Pleasant Valley 28 21 Nik Kitchel 11:46.09 So Red Bluff 2 29 22 Aaron Spence 11:47.37 Fr Enterprise 5 30 -- Damian Massie 12:00.54 So Pleasant Valley 31 23 Kaden Freeman 12:07.45 Jr Shasta 2 32 -- Will Walters 12:08.32 Fr Pleasant Valley 33 -- Grant Limper 12:09.85 Jr Pleasant Valley 34 24 Devin Penner 12:10.19 So Red Bluff 3 35 -- Karl Gilbert 12:14.84 Jr Chico 36 -- Devin Wilson 12:16.69 Jr Pleasant Valley 37 -- Sam Dickens 12:18.02 Fr Pleasant Valley 38 25 Travis Saito 12:20.08 Fr Shasta 3 39 -- John Kettel 12:23.40 So Paradise 40 -- Tyler Mathews 12:26.66 So Foothill 41 -- Ivan Bowles 12:27.13 Fr Pleasant Valley 42 -- Blake Brousseau 12:30.45 Jr Pleasant Valley 43 26 Andrew Bellon 12:35.76 So Red Bluff 4 44 27 James Dunn 12:36.79 Fr Red Bluff 5 45 28 Cy Bravo 12:44.04 Fr Red Bluff 6 46 -- Shawn Johnson 12:44.64 So Pleasant Valley 47 -- Daniel Rodman 12:56.73 So Paradise 48 29 Robert Blumer 12:57.29 Fr Enterprise 6 49 -- George Leece 13:05.56 Fr Pleasant Valley 50 30 Jordan Hulseman 13:06.02 Fr Enterprise 7 51 -- Ian Geary 13:10.32 So Enterprise 52 31 Carson Judge 13:19.98 Jr Shasta 4 53 -- Brian Avrit 13:20.36 Fr Pleasant Valley 54 -- Evin Sanders 13:32.31 Sr Pleasant Valley 55 -- Alec Morgan 13:35.81 Jr Pleasant Valley 56 -- Robert Griggs 13:41.02 So Paradise 57 32 Travis Ogletree 13:48.94 Fr Red Bluff 7 58 -- Dan Roberts 13:53.12 Fr Chico 59 -- Dashiel Turner 13:53.67 Fr Pleasant Valley 60 -- Dusty Carr 14:03.32 Jr Pleasant Valley 61 33 Kurt Galnero 14:34.96 So Shasta 5 62 -- Xeej Thor 14:43.87 So Oroville 63 34 Kris Conry 15:21.51 So Shasta 6 64 -- Emmitt Carroll 15:28.29 Fr Oroville 65 -- Toby Heinemann 15:31.99 Fr Pleasant Valley 66 -- Michael Smith 15:34.88 So Red Bluff 67 -- Jacob Carey 16:31.55 Fr Red Bluff JV Boys Team Score 1 2 3 4 5 (6 7) =========================================== Pleasant Valley 28 2 3 6 8 11 (15 16) Chico 36 3 4 5 7 17 (18 20) Enterprise 70 9 12 13 14 22 (29 30) Red Bluff 108 10 21 24 26 27 (28 --) Shasta 131 19 23 25 31 33 (34 --) Foothill, Oroville and Paradise had incomplete teams