CROSS COUNTRY: KIRKENDALL'S SACRIFICE PULLS LANCASTER TO TITLE.Byline: Kirby Kirby is a common place name, surname, and given name. Other common uses include:
Lee Special to the Daily News Rosanna Kirkendall of Lancaster Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. High stuck with her teammates in the Golden League cross country finals Wednesday Wednesday: see week. . Even if it may have cost the senior a shot at an elusive individual title. Kirkendall paced her teammates for much of the 3-mile race at Pelona Vista Park to help the Eagles win their first league title, edging two-time defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Quartz quartz, one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2. Hill 40-41. Highland, led by surprising sophomore Cassie Ramirez's 25-second victory over Kirkendall in 19:58, was third with 42 points. In the boys' competition, Lancaster won its third title in a row, buoyed by sophomore Ryan Rogers' individual victory and four runners among the top five - David Sauer (third), Joseph Gocong (fourth) and Michael Sundburg (fifth). Lancaster scored 28 points, Quartz Hill had 42 and Palmdale 92. Rogers timed 17:13 to defeat Palmdale's Daniel Bauder, a convincing winner of the first two Golden League meets, by 10 seconds and become only the second non-Palmdale winner in the last decade. Kirkendall, the league 800, 1,600 and 3,200-meter champion in track, posted runaway victories on rugged courses in the two league meets leading up to the finals. The relatively flat course around soccer fields at Pelona Vista Park also would figure to lend to Kirkendall's track speed, which propelled her to the 1999 state meet in the 1,600. Instead, the typically fast-starting Kirkendall opted to hang back to pull her teammates, all easy to spot with hot pink bandannas and ``Rambo'' written in large letters on their biceps. When Ramirez made her break on a downhill with a mile to go, however, Kirkendall was unable to respond. ``My goal was to pull our team along and bring them with me,'' Kirkendall said. ``I did not want the race to go out fast so our team would be stronger. That is not the way I run. I like to run fast and then slow down. I slowed down at the end, but I did not have the lead that I needed. Of course, I am upset, but that was not my ultimate goal. The important thing was for the team to win.'' Kirkendall's generosity Generosity See also Aid, Organizational; Kindness. Abbé Constantin self-sacrificing priest; curé of Longueral. [Fr. Lit.: The Abbé Constantin, Walsh Modern, 105] Amelia takes interest in Paul. [Br. Lit. made an impact in the team competition with Lancaster placing six runners among the top 14 and ahead of Quartz Hill's and Highland's fifth runner. Gidget Vaughan was fourth in 20:31 and Dedra Johnson was ninth in 21:33. They were followed by the closely knit Adj. 1. closely knit - held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit" close-knit close - close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all... pack of Meiling Cabral (22:00), Amber Kaplan (22:01 and Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK) a semi-longhaired version of the Burmese cat. It has a fine, silky coat in many colors. Shuping (22:02) in 12th, 13th and 14th. ``Our goal was to go after her and be able to see her at the finish,'' Vaughan said about Kirkendall. Both Ramirez and Rogers are in their first year of cross country. Ramirez played volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. last fall and only began running track last spring after she was cut from the softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team. The 5-6, 130-pound Rogers was a linebacker on the freshman football team a year ago. Ramirez finished fifth in the first two league meets and more than two minutes behind Kirkendall in the second league meet. In addition to Kirkendall, Wednesday's field also included defending champion Shell Blevins of Quartz Hill and teammate Rachel Guerrero, a senior who was the runner-up in the second league meet. Blevins, who missed the first two league meets because of illness, was fifth in 20:42. Guerrero was sixth in 20:49. ``My goal was to do the best I could and not give up no matter how tired I was,'' Ramirez said. ``I am just surprised, to tell you the truth. Rosanna is one heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. of a runner and Shell is awesome. All the people cheering for me gave me the extra boost to go up there and at least try to hang with them.'' CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Highland High's Cassie Ramirez was a surprise winner in the Golden League girls' race over heavily favored Rosanna Kirkendall of Lancaster, which won the team title. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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