Dos Pueblos freshman Eamon Gordon won the boys long-course race, and the Santa Barbara Boys runners took the first five places and seven of the top 10 in the short course race at the Ojai Invitational on Saturday.
The Dons scored a perfect 15 to win team honors, outpacing second-place Dos Pueblos with 62 in the 1.9-mile course. Carpinteria was sixth with 171 points and Santa Ynez eighth with 219.
The Santa Barbara girls came in third place, Dos Pueblos fourth and Carpinteria ninth.
For the Dons’ boys, Blaise Snow picked up his second win on the week with 10:11.02. Andreas Dybdahl and Xan Tassos were right behind with in 10:11.94 and 10:12.78. Drew DeLozier placed fourth in 10:27.87 and, Colten McToldridge fifth with 10:49.89.
“These boys are running so well together and with so much confidence right now,” said Dons coach Olivia Perdices. “They each truly want to make the guy next to them better and it’s showing.”
Dos Pueblos’ Fredenrick Jones finished in eighth place in the short course with 10:54.84.
In the 3-mile long course, Gordon came in first with a time of 16:39.48 to pace the Chargers to a second-place finish behind Foothill Tech.
The Chargers’ Luciani Koroshec finished third with 17:15.56.
The Chargers also came in second in the girls’ long ourse race, behind Saugus. Junior Phoebe Wolfe Lyons paced the Chargers with a fourth-place finish in 19:49.60.
In the girls’ short course, Santa Barbara placed third and Dos Pueblos fourth. Carpinteria finished ninth.
Mackenna Show paced the Dons with a sixth place finish, with 13:11.16. Ridley DeSoto finished eighth with 13:17.95.
“I asked the girls to gamble a bit and get out more aggressively than they like to,” Perdices said. “They took that challenge and hung on to race really well.
“We were a little conservative running all our kids in the 1.9 mile short course today,” Perdices added. “I knew we’d have some tired legs coming off the league meet Wednesday. Casitas is a challenging course either way and the conditions can be really tough there. It’s still early in the season and we’ll go back there in a few weeks and run kids in the longer race. I’m really happy with how we’ve started the season and looking forward to seeing what this team can do the rest of the way.”
Sophie Saleh paced the Chargers on the short course with 14:05.51.
Carpinteria’s top three performers in the 3-mile race were Kate Cooney, 13th place with 21:46 for the girls, and for the boys Eduardo Vences, 16th place in 18:39 and Hugo Alvarado 27th place in 19:43.
“It was warm this morning but it did not stop our kids from getting out there and competing. Many competed in the 1.9 mile race today with most competing for the very first time after not participating in any sports this past year and a half,” Warriors coach Angel Silva said.