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Conner detours during wire-to-wire ‘Super Septo’ race win at Spring Lake

Dragon gridders play in Saturday matinee at Tam

 

On the heels of his 2.7-mile Maxwell Farms Regional Park course record-shattering run last week in winning Sonoma Valley High School’s annual cross country season-opening Alumni Meet, senior standout Alex Conner broke Sonoma’s school record for the 3.05-mile Spring Lake course on Wednesday despite a detour.

Competing in the eight-school – Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Montgomery, Sonoma Academy, Windsor, Analy, Rancho Cotate and Elsie Allen – “Super Septo” race, Conner built up an early lead before making a wrong turn which cost him at least 10 seconds.

But Conner got back on course and finished off an impressive wire-to-wire victory in a school-record time of 15 minutes, 47 seconds, which eclipsed his brother Niko Conner’s previous record time of 16:25 by nearly 40 seconds.

Also pacing the varsity Dragon boys were senior Steven Wedell’s 11th-place in 17:29; junior Liam Casey’s 37th in 19:25; sophomore Keegan Ginter’s 38th in 19:26; junior A.J. Lemaire’s 39th in 19:37; junior Greg Maggioncalda’s 40th in 19:37; and junior Peter Gray’s 41st in 20:02.

The Lady Dragons were paced by junior Hannah Cenci’s 13th in 20:10; junior Gianna Biaggi’s 16th in 21:19; junior Serena Spry’s 18th in 21:29; freshman Hanna Lemaire’s 19th in 21:43; and junior Laura Amador’s 22nd in 22:06.

Pacing the Dragon junior varsity boys were sophomore Christian Martinez’s first-place in 18:27; sophomore Trey Garcia’s 46th in 21:56; freshman Return Bongiovanni’s 76th in 23:59; and senior Taylor Patterson’s 95th in 25:43.

 

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After a stirring come-from-behind season-opening victory, the Sonoma Valley High School varsity football boys, who edged visiting Terra Linda 21-17 last Friday night at Arnold Field, will face another nonleague Marin County foe when they travel to Mill Valley to battle Tamalpais tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 17 – the junior varsity game starts at 11:30 a.m., and the varsity plays at 2 p.m.

The Dragons return home to host nonleague American Canyon next Friday, Sept. 23, at Arnold Field, with the jayvees beginning at 5 and the varsity playing at 7:30 p.m.