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RUNNER OF THE YEAR Story about Nicole Lane ————————– FIRST TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SECOND TEAM HONORABLE MENTION               ————————–  

Elsie Allen, Ukiah, Maria Carrillo at Spring Lake Rancho Cotate, Montgomery at Spring Lake Windsor, Petaluma at Putnam Park Analy, El Molino, Sonoma at Maxwell Park Casa Grande, Healdsburg at Hoot Owl Winery Willits, Cloverdale, Upper Lake at Sonoma Academy Clear Lake, Lower Lake, RV Christian at St. Vincent Middletown, Fort Bragg, Roseland Prep, Pt. Arena, St. Helena, Kelseyville, Calistoga at St. Helena Cardinal Newman’s 3.2 mile campus course, since 2011 Varsity Boys Piner 21 Santa Rosa 51 Cardinal Newman… Read More »

Alex Conner of Sonoma and Nicole Lane of El Molino continue to burn up the courses they are running on this year. Yesterday Conner broke the 11 year old Windsor high school course record by Analy’s Ruben Mora-Roma set back in 2000. Lane meanwhile took 28 seconds off her own record on El Molino’s course. Click here for coverage of all the meets yesterday reported in. Lane and Casa’s Ashley Moffett

El Molino’s Nicole Lane seems to be having a dream season as she wins major Invitationals again and again. Yesterday it was the Clovis Invitational in Fresno. Competing in the Division IV race against 169 runners, on the course that will be used later in the year to host the State finals, Lane finished in 18:24, seven seconds ahead of second place. Meanwhile at the Crystal Springs Invitational Piner high schools boys team was continuing to dominate, winning the Championship… Read More »

The North Bay and Sonoma County leagues kicked off there league seasons Wednesday with some huge performances. Two of the top North Coast Section teams, Santa Rosa & Maria Carrillo went head to head at Spring Lake State Park. Santa Rosa’s Michael Tomasi won the boys race and lead his team to the win over Carrillo 25-31. Carrillo’s Lauren Kraus won the girls race and her team showed why they are the number one ranked division II team in the… Read More »

Piner’s Luis Luna and El Molino’s Nicole Lane each won the senior race at the Scott Bauhs Invitational and had the fastest overall time of all divisions.   Piner Junior Jaime Silva and Sophomore Efren Reyes also won their races. The Scott Bauhs races are broken up by grade levels. Luna ends his career with all four division records and all-time course record. 9th 16:14, 10th 15:16, 11th 14:51 and 12th 14:45. Luna’s time surpasses the fastest 3 miler ever… Read More »

Piner’s Luis Luna and Cardinal Newman’s Alexi Taylor each won their divisions at the prestigious Stanford cross country Invitational Saturday. Luna’s 5K time of 15:08 is faster than any Empire runner has ever run. Sonoma’s Alex Conner was 2nd to Luna in 15:22 in the division III race, the 4th fastest 5K in Empire History. On the girls’ side, El Molino’s Nicole Lane and Sonoma Academy’s Katy Lee each finished 3rd in their divisions. Click here for complete coverage of… Read More »

El Molino’s Nicole Lane crossed the finish line in first place in the small school division of the Ed Sias Invitational in Martinez Sep. 10th. To see the video of the race and all of the other great performances by Redwood Empire runners click the link below. Complete coverage of Ed Sias Invitational

Piner boys dominated the first interlock meet of the year and El Molino’s Nicole Lane edged Maria Carrillo’s Lauren Kraus. Complete results of all of yesterdays meets here.