CROSS COUNTRY: RADNOTI'S FAITH IS REWARDED : COACH KNEW IT ALL ALONG: T.O. HEADED FOR STATE.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. High cross country coach Robert Radnoti is a believer in the power of positive thinking. The first-year coach asked the girls' team to think of ways to celebrate after qualifying for the state championships last week. He also informed them he had made hotel reservations for Saturday's meet at Woodward Park Woodward Park (34 acres) is a public park, botanical garden, and arboretum located between 21st Street and 24th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is open to the public daily. in Fresno. And this was before the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. toed the starting line starting line n. Sports The point or line at which a race begins. Noun 1. starting line - a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game scratch line, scratch, start of the Southern Section Division I championships at Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC; pronounced as the word "sack") is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, next to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona which is just over a hill. Mt. last Saturday, the qualifying competition for the state meet. Radnoti's premonitions, however, proved accurate. Thousand Oaks, buoyed by sophomore Kelley Hess' ninth-place finish in 18 minutes, 45 seconds over the hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill , 3-mile course, finished third in the team competition to earn its first berth in the state championships since 1994. ``He has a lot of faith in us,'' senior Amanda Armstrong said about Radnoti. ``At first, I really didn't believe we could make it there. We just concentrated and we really took each race one at a time instead of thinking of the future and everything took care of itself.'' Footing the bill for their season-end celebration (or medical expenses) is still in the works. Among the team's suggestions were a trip to Hawaii and skiing. ``I really don't think the coach is going to go for those,'' Armstrong said. For Armstrong, Saturday's race will be her second appearance in the state championships. As a sophomore, she qualified for the meet as an individual. Hess Hess , Walter Rudolf 1881-1973. Swiss physiologist. He shared a 1949 Nobel Prize for his research on the brain's control of the body. , senior Melissa McBain and freshmen Ashley Patteson, Kira Watkins, Courtney Vasquez and Julie Hancock will be competing in the state meet for the first time. ``It is a great accomplishment and I feel really good for the seniors,'' Hess said. ``We thought it was going to be close, but we didn't let it bother us. We felt confident if we run like we had before we could do it.'' A top-three finish in the state meet appears within reach for Thousand Oaks. Southern Section champion Irvine and runner-up Esperanza are favored, but Thousand Oaks is expected to be in the mix for third with San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Section champion Mt. Carmel and San Joaquin San Joaquin (săn wäkēn`), river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay. champion Nevada Union of Grass Valley. In October, Thousand Oaks defeated Grass Valley to win the Clovis Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. on the same 5,000-meter course used for the state championships. ``The challenge now becomes not just reaching it to the state meet but doing the best we can do there,'' Radnoti said. ``The Southern Section is so competitive that it becomes a challenge to get to state. I'm extremely happy the girls went along and started to believe, but I am still trying to convince them they can still run faster than they have all season.'' Write on: Jaclyn Pedersen finished fourth in the Southern Section Division I final to become the first Royal girls' runner to advance to the state championships. The sophomore clocked 18:31 to slice 27 seconds off her best set a week earlier in the preliminaries. Pedersen, however, who won the Ventura County and Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. titles this fall, has been preparing for her trip to Fresno since September. Before every race, she has written Nov. 28, the date of the state meet, on the palm or her hand. The date is also written on her school binders and the cover of her chemistry book. Twice as nice: Laura Jakosky did not win the Marmonte League title, but the Agoura sophomore didn't finish the season empty-handed. Jakosky won the Southern Section Division II title for Agoura's eighth section individual girls' title since 1987. The list includes Deena Drossin, who won titles in 1987, 1989 and 1990, Kay KAY Kick Ass Year KAY Kansas Association of Youth Nekota in 1991 and Amy Skieresz in 1992, 1993 and 1994. In the Marmonte League finals, Jakosky finished second to Royal's Pedersen. As a freshman, Jakosky was fourth in the league finals but was the Marmonte League's lone runner to qualify for the state meet. ``It is always niAce to win a race, but I felt really good about how I ran in league,'' Jakosky said. ``The league is so strong it prepares you for tough competition.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Sophomore Kelley Hess finished ninth in the Southern Section Division I championships. Kirby Lee/Special to the Daily News |
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