Women’s XC has best finish ever

The Saddleback women's cross country team finished up its most successful season on record on Saturday with a 10^th place finish at the state meet in Fresno.  Freshman Caroline Dagarin led the Gauchos with a 50^th place finish as the top-5 harriers all finished in the top-85 in the field.

Saddleback started the season with a terrible traffic accident when their team van was rear-ended by a semi-truck, forcing many of the runners to miss a handful of weeks of conditioning and another to miss the entire season.  The Gauchos used it as a source of motivation, eclipsing a previous-best finish of 14^th back in 2010.

Dagarin ran the 5k course in 19:53.  She was followed closely by Rachel Oberschelp in 66^th (20:14) and both Kimberly Jovanus (20:20) and Angel Vallier, who finished less than a second apart.  Charlotte Owen finished in 85^th overall (20:34). 

Congrats Gauchos on a great season!