By Ed Piper
As the pair of top Viking girl runners mature into their junior years, domination is the word. And that was the word in the Eastern League's first varsity cross country cluster meet Wed., Sept. 28, at Morley Field.
Kirra Fisk and Daphne Mayer, running mates in high school now going into their third year, clocked the field of 80 competitors on the 3.11-mile course, Fisk finishing almost a full minute ahead of second-place Alexis Noble, a senior from Clairemont, in 18:53.55.
That's an average of not much over six minutes a mile--on hilly and weaving terrain that threads the girls through the trees, up slopes, and on all kinds of other tricky obstacles as they traverse the Morley complex (which also has construction nearby on the entrance from Pershing--I got stuck way down the hill when I followed a walled detour!).
Mayer, for her part, ran 19:54.02 in third place, only two seconds behind Noble for the runner-up spot.
A La Jolla High newcomer, Sophia O'Brien, a freshman, was timed in a gutty 21:18.70 for seventh place to give the Vikings a 1-3-7 finish and 39 points to top the team leader scoreboard. Clairemont finished three points behind at 42 on Noble's fine run. The Chieftains also were represented by junior Allison Burden in fifth place.
OLP, a sports powerhouse over the years, came in third in the team standings, a bit humbling as the only private school in the mix.
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