By Ed Piper
La Jolla High sophomores Hannah Nightingale and Eugenia Kritsuk, and incoming ninth-graders Katie Frost and Sadie Dyer finished 3-4-5-6 in the girls race of the first Crawford Cross Country Invitational at Chollas Park North Sat., Aug. 25.
"It was a tough course and they ran really well," said Viking head coach Mandy Benham.
The foursome, among nine La Jolla girls competing in the first event of the season, took their slots early in the race as they traversed around the lake at Chollas, and ran high up a ridge above the baseball field at the park in south San Diego.
Nightingale, tall and striding comfortably, runs only cross country for her high school. Kritsuk, her running mate in the race, competes in multiple events for the Viking track team, besides running for Benham's cross country program--excelling last spring among freshmen in the long jump (15'9") and triple jump (32'11"), besides hurdles and the girls 4x100-meter relay.
The Viking girls team, as a whole, finished first among the five schools fielding girls runners in Saturday's invitational, hosted by Crawford High's cross country program. Hoover, which placed the 1-2 finishers, came in second.
In the boys race, which preceded the girls' race, La Jolla placed third behind Crawford and St. Augustine.
Top finishers for the Viking boys were seniors Gabriel Maher and Alex Kalchev, who ran 13-14 in the race. Their times over the 5,000-meter (3.2-mile) course were, respectively, 19:20.15 and 19:44.34.
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