Esparza, Swangler win at Beat the Heat By Ryan Sparks, rsparks@times-standard.com Posted: 08/29/16, 10:55 PM PDT EUREKA >> At Saturday’s ‘Beat the Heat’ cross-country meet at the College of the Redwoods, nobody could beat Joseph Esparza. The Corsairs runner won the first race of the season with a time of 22:32, beating Butte College’s Justin Garcia by 12 seconds. Santa Rosa’s Jeffrey Martin finished in third place with a time of 23:08. “He won the meet with a good time on a hard course,” Corsairs head coach Reed Elmore said of Esparza’s performance. While Esparza led the field, no other CR runner was able to crack the top 10. Zephir Lennox finished with a time of 24:52 (19th place), just one second behind Butte’s Martin Hernandez. Joshua Gorman (25:29) and John Milender (25:37) finished in 23rd and 24th place, respectively. Marcus Bullard finished in 32nd place with a time of 36:33. Butte won the men’s race with a low-score of 32 points. Santa Rosa was second with 44 points. Shasta with 75 points and CR with 83 points finished in third and fourth, respectively. In the women’s race, Corsairs runners Amanda Viera and Alie Newhouse both cracked the top 10 at their first meet of the season. Viera finished fourth overall with a time of 22:51, nine seconds off the pace of third-place finisher, Anna Drake-Trip of Santa Rosa. Newhouse posted a time of 25:12 to finish in eighth place. Corsair Tasewi Williams finished in 13th place with a time of 27:06. Matty Bills crossed the finish line in 15th place with a time of 29:59 for CR. “The women ran well and are just starting training,” Reed said. “Amanda (Viera) and Alie (Newhouse) set themselves up to be in the hunt for all-conference honors.” Butte’s Talia Swangler won the race with a time of 21:04, more than a minute ahead of Santa Rosa’s Angie Law, who posted a time of 22:09. Shasta won the women’s team event with a total of 52 points. They were the only team to have five runners post a time. While Reed was pleased with some of his team’s performances, he acknowledged the road ahead is a long one. “I am looking forward to improvements across the board,” he said. “As a team, we have a lot of work to do but we should be there at the end. The goal, as always, is to get to state.” The Corsairs next meet is Friday, Sept. 2 at the NorCal Preview in Sacramento. Beat the Heat results 2016 Women 5K 1 Tailia Swangler BC 21:04 2 Angie Law SR 22:09 3 Anna Drake-Trip SR 22.42 4 Amanda Viera CR 22:51 5 Amarisa Miranda SC 22:58 6 Chantelle Borges SC 24:24 7 Caleigh Calvo BC 24:43 8 Alie Newhouse CR 25:12 9 Malene Karanagh BC 25:17 10 Robin Riley SC 25:56 11 Ruley Munos SR 26:05 12 Natalie Davis BC 26:35 13 Tasewi Williams CR 27:06 14 Natalie Sareta-Gomez SC 28:44 15 Matty Bills CR 29:59 16 Salorina Peppel SC 30:31 Team 1 Shasta Men 4mi 1 Joseph Esparza CR 22:32 2 Justin Garcia BC 22:44 3 Jeffrey Marin SR 23:08 4 Masen Beirril BC 23:12 5 Dustin Yocum BC 23:13 6 Austin Murch SC 23:16 7 Brandon Franken SR 23:22 8 Donald Leedy SC 23:25 9 Noah Iliff BC 23:33 10 Zachary Nussdorfa SR 23:54 11 Evan Drake SR 24.04 12 Jericho Ulibarri BC 24:11 13 Brian Padilla SR 24:11 14 Devan Becker SR 24:18 15 Brandy Lane SR 24:19 16 Samuel Grate SC 24: 20 17 Joshua Palmgren 24:33 18 Martin Hernandez BC 24:51 19 Zephir Lennox CR 24:52 20 Eddie Mondragon SR 25:05 21 Enrique Acosta SR 25:07 22 Anthany Rink SR 25:17 23 Joshua Gorman CR 25:29 24 John Milender CR 25:37 25 Steven Ruiz SR 26:01 26 Evan Carton BC 26:37 27 Eddy Schilling BC 26:56 28 Emilio Siaz SC 27:07 29 Luis Garcia SR 27:07 30 Cody Hoff SC 32:10 31 Omar Tejada SC 32:10 32 Marcus Bullard CR 36:33 Team 1) Butte 2,4,5,9,12,17,21=32 2) SRJC 3,7,10,11,13,14,15=44 3) Shasta 6,8,16,22,23,24=75 4) CR 1,18,19,20,25=83