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Runners Do Well At UTSA Cross Country Meet

Bandera, Texas ● September 24, 2009

Despite not having a single member of the cross country team run in a meet since the Uvalde Coyote Invitational Cross Country Meet # 1 on September 3^rd, the Bandera Bulldog and Lady Bulldog cross country runners competed well at the UTSA Ricardo Romo Cross Country Meet in San Antonio on September 19^th. For several of the Bandera High School cross country team members, the UTSA Ricardo Romo Invitational Cross Country Meet was their first meet competition of the 2009 cross country season, while several others had to miss the UTSA Ricardo Romo Invitational Cross Country Meet due to injury or illness.

For the boys, senior Chris Mallory (56) and freshman Cody Tuma (64) finished in the top half of the field of 154 runners competing in the Class 3-A Varsity Boy Division, while sophomore Zach Chelin finished 35^th or in the top 15% of the field of 295 runners in the Class 1A-5A Junior Varsity Boy Division. Freshman Matthew Halloran and junior Antonio Morales also represented the Bandera Bulldogs in the Class 3-A Varsity Boy Division. 

For the girls, junior Aimee Denham captured the 3^rd place trophy in the Class 3-A Varsity Girl Division, while freshman Sara Herrera finished 22^nd in the same division, only 2 places away from capturing an individual trophy.  Freshman McKenna Mangold (35), sophomore Elizabeth Elizondo (38), and junior Kaylee Reeves (39) finished in the top 30% of the field of 135 runners in the Class 3-A Varsity Girl Division, while freshman Crystal Moreland (65) finished the top half of the same field of runners.  The other runners representing the varsity Bandera Lady Bulldogs were junior Shelbie Martin, freshman Kasandra Cruz, sophomore Brandi Robinson, and freshman Emma Williams. Running  in the Class A-5A Junior Varsity Girl Division were junior Gianna Canales, junior Molly Frost, and freshman Emily Frost.  As a team the varsity Lady Bulldogs finished 4^th of 15 teams in the Class 3-A Varsity Girl Division, only one point away from being the first Bandera Lady Bulldog team to ever earn a spot on the awards stand at a UTSARicardo Romo Cross Country Meet.

Over the next two weeks, the Bandera High School team, as well as the Bandera Middle School team, will enter two extremely competitive cross country meets. The first of these two meets will be the Llano Yellow Jacket Invitational Cross Country Meet on September 19^th. Then, on October 3^rd, the Bandera High School and Bandera Middle School teams will compete at the McNeil Invitational Cross Country Meet at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. 

At Llano, the race schedule is:

• 8:30 AM  Varsity Girls         

• 9:00 AM  Varsity Boys

• 9:30 AM  Junior Varsity Girls

• 10:00 AM  Junior Varsity Boys

• 10:30 AM  7^th and 8^th Grade Girls (2 Chutes)

• 11:00 AM  7^th and 8^th Grade Boys (2 Chutes)

For the races entered by Bandera High School and Bandera Middle School, the race schedule at the McNeil Invitational Cross Country  Meet is:

• 9:00 AM  Junior High Girls

• 9:30 AM  Junior High Boys

• 11:00 AM  Junior Varsity Girls

• 11:30 AM  Junior Varsity Boys

• 12:00 PM  Class 1A-3A Varsity Girls

• 12:30 PM  Class 1A-3A Varsity Boys

• 1:00 PM  Freshmen Boys and Girls

The Llano Yellow Jacket Invitational Cross Country Meet and the McNeil Invitational Cross Country Meet will be the first two meets of the 2009 cross country season for Bandera Middle School, while a number of the Bandera High School cross country runners will be running in only their second or third cross country meet of the season.  Anyone who has the opportunity to watch any of the remaining meets of the 2009 cross country season is encouraged to attend as many meets as possible from now through the end of the 2009 cross country season.

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