By Ed Piper
La Jolla's girls cross country team met some more serious competition than in their first meet, but Serra didn't offer that much more opposition as freshmen Kyra Fisk and Daphne Mayer led a 1-4-5-6-7 Viking finish to easily pull away from Serra, 23-37, on the longer course at Morley Field Thurs., Feb. 25.
Fisk, in her second straight top finish, burned a time of 21:19.8 over 3.11 miles to beat her nearest rival by almost half a minute. Sofia Abraham of Serra, who came in second, clocked a time of 21:49.71 as the Q's placed 2-3-9-14-15 in the team event.
Mayer followed her teammate Fisk in fourth place, behind the two top Serra runners, by a minute and a half (22:48.93). Behind her, junior Sasha Backus placed fifth in 23:20.71, and senior Hannah Nightingale sixth with 23:27.46.
La Jolla's Abigail Plezia, another ninth-grader, got seventh in 23:31.58 for the other Viking points. Running theoretically as a sixsome, a school's top five finishers score points for their team, with the place number (for example, first place) scoring that many points (first place equals one point, second place scores two points, etc.). That's why in cross country the lower score wins.
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