Brooks/de Bourmount lead East Division x-country

BIIF boys start at Waiakea

Keaau’s Daniel Brooks and Hilo’s Shalila de Bourmont continued to run well at Big Island Interscholastic Federation cross-country meets this season as both captured top individual honors at Waiakea on Saturday.

    At the start of the boys three mile race Brooks opened with at quick pace and rapidly separated himself early on from the rest of the field.

    “I heard some footsteps at the first hill, but no one challenged me,” Brooks said.  “My goal coming into this race was to break 17 minutes, but no one pushed me.  I run better when I’m pushed.”

   Books won the race in 17 minutes and 24 seconds with Hilo’s Tyde Kaneshiro claiming second.

    “I was happy with my race despite not hitting my goal today,” Brooks said.  I went out and set a fast pace and I was strong on the uphill’s while cruising the downhill’s.  Next week I’ll come out harder and hopefully the my whole team will come out harder.”

Tyde Kaneshiro

For Hilo’s Kaneshiro it was perhaps his best race thus far.  “My teammate, Billy (Ray), and I wanted to beat Keaau’s number two runner (Shannon White) so we tried staying with him most of the race,” Kaneshiro said.

   Just before the two mile point Kaneshiro separated himself from a pack made up of Ray and White, along with Kamehameha’s Casey Chai, as Kaneshiro opened up a large gap between himself and third place.

   Kaneshiro attempted to catch Brooks in the last half mile of the race, but ran out of gas with about 200 yards to go.  “Mentally I couldn’t grasp the fact that I could catch him (Brooks) and I gave up rather than suffer through the pain,” he said.

   Kaneshiro  finished in 17:40, just 14 seconds behind Brooks to claim his highest placing finish in his young prep career.  “I feel great physically and mentally, this is the best I have ever felt during a race,” he said.

   Chai took third, 18:04, followed by Ray, 18:11; Hilo’s Johann Kuiper, 18:11; White, 18:12; and Waiakea’s Frank Chi in 18:12.

Second place whet to Waiakea’s Kaitlyn Chock, 21:38; and Kelsie Kobayashi, 21: 43; while Kamehameha’s Bronte Kaneakua was fourth, 21:54; and Keaau’s Dean Nishimura-Thornton finished fifth, 22:06.

     “I think I should have stayed with the pack or go faster at the start,” Kaneakua said.  “I tried to stay with Kaitlyn (Chock) and Kelsie (Kobayashi), but I fell back after 2-miles.”

    While Kaneakua wasn’t very satisfied with her fourth place finish, Nishimura-Thornton was excited with her fifth place time.

Deann Thornton

“This was probably the best race I’ve had this season as I tried to stay with the front pack for as long as I could,” Nishimura-Thornton said.

    “At the soccer field portion of the course (2.5 miles) the other girls in the pack started their kick and we got separated.  I’m starting to get better slowly and I like where I’m at this year.”

    Last year Nishimura-Thornton was consistently in the top five of each race leading up to the BIIF championships and she did it as a freshman.  The young Cougar fizzled at the BIIF championships dropping out of the top ten.  “This year I want to put all my focus on the BIIF’s and peak in time for that race,” she said.

    Hilo swept the boys and girls team titles with a surprised Viking coach, Bill McMahon looking on.  “I tell you, I never really expected this (winning team titles) but these guys and girls are really tough in putting it all together,” McMahon said.

   On the north end of the island it was Kohala playing host to the BIIF West Division with a pair of Dragons taking top individual honors. 

    Chris Mosch, who won it all at Kamehameha two weeks ago, won the boy’s race, while teammate Tia Greenwell, the two time defending BIIF champion, won it all for the girls.

   Mosch’s major challenge came from Makua Lani’s Dylan Hardie-Jordan who tried to stay with the senior from Honokaa for most of the race.

   Greenwell had little opposition in her desire to retain a third league title and easily took the girls race in 20 minutes and 56 seconds. Teammate Athena Oldfather captured second in 21:28, followed by Makua Lani’s Grace Choe, 22:46, and Hawaii Prep’s Zoe Sims, 22:56.

   “The HPA girls really had a solid pack of runners that made it easy for them to win the team title,” Kohala coach, Tom McCue said.  “We had some variable weather today with wind gust up to 20 mph and a little rain for the boy’s race, then it got really hot for the girls.”

    Honokaa won the boys varsity race with Ka Makani taking the girls team title.

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Photo’s from Waiakea x-country meet

Hilo's Johann Kuiper, Keaau's Shannon White and Waiakea's Frank Chi - Battling to the finish

Waiakea's Kaitlyn Chock seems a little too happy at start of girls race

Shannon White

Kelsie Kobayashi

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BIIF Boys Cross-Country Results from Waiakea

Start of boys race at Waiakea

FINISH	BIIF Cross-Country		Boys
	September 26, 2009
	Waiakea High School
	Individual Finish Sheet
	108 Finishers			Time
No.	Last Name	First Name	Team	Min	Sec
1	Brooks	Daniel	Keaau	17	24
2	Kaneshiro	Tyde	Hilo	17	40
3	Chai	Casey	Kamehameha	18	04
4	Ray	Billy	Hilo	18	11
5	Kuiper	Johann	Hilo	18	11
6	White	Shannon	Keaau	18	12
7	Chi	Frank	Waiakea	18	12
8	Michels	Rick	Hilo	18	19
9	Ho	Kaulana	Kamehameha	18	36
10	Edwards	Jacob	Ka’u	18	43
11	Grotenhuis	Jeremy	Christian Liberty	18	47
12	Scott	Ka’imi	Waiakea	18	55
13	Hatford	Jackson	Waiakea	18	56
14	Moylan	Richard	Christian Liberty	19	00
15	Torrison	Edward	Hilo	19	03
16	Andrada	Shawn	Keaau	19	16
17	Correa	Shawn	Kamehameha	19	16
18	Fratinardo	John	Kamehameha	19	24
19	Grotenhuis	Jordan	Christian Liberty	19	24
20	Weiss	Sai	Hilo	19	36
21	Kelii	Michael	Christian Liberty	19	38
22	Umayas	Samuel	Keaau	19	39
23	Wynn	Mark	Christian Liberty	19	41
24	Pelletier	Kyle	Kamehameha	19	42
25	Clubbs	James	Keaau	19	43
26	Taylor	Daniel	Hilo	19	50
27	Lum Ho	Makaala	Keaau	19	52
28	Langtry	Andrew	St. Joseph	19	58
29	Branco	Brenden	Hilo	20	08
30	Manuel	Dayton	Waiakea	20	10
31	Thomas	Ryan	Kamehameha	20	12
32	Olsen	Kevin	Keaau	20	13
33	Phenecie	Kekoa	Keaau	20	15
34	Bath	Noah	Waiakea	20	15
35	Flaherty	Noa	Hilo	20	20
36	Koscik	Chris	St. Joseph	20	24
37	Meguro	Robbey	Waiakea	20	31
38	DeRego	Theodore	Kamehameha	20	31
39	Ly	Wong	Hilo	20	40
40	Iha	Randall	Hilo	20	47
41	Villegas	Abraham	Hilo	20	49
42	Memmer	Luke	Hilo	20	50
43	Pavao	Wayne	Keaau	20	51
44	Hulse	Cooper	Kamehameha	20	51
45	Baker	Saya	Kamehameha	20	54
46	Williamson	Marshall	Waiakea	21	00
47	Hart	Nainoa	Kamehameha	21	08
48	Rice	Keone	Waiakea	21	13
49	Ouye	Ronn	Christian Liberty	21	17
50	Byrd	John	Pahoa	21	19
51	Arellano	John Ross	Christian Liberty	21	24
52	Uemura	Ryne	Waiakea	21	28
53	Dudoit	Marcus	Hilo	21	30
54	Alviento	Davin	Keaau	21	42
55	Matias	Greg	Keaau	21	43
56	McAuliffe	Stephen	Waiakea	21	44
57	Rowland-Fernandez	Jason	Kamehameha	21	45
58	Haasenritter	Kawika	Kamehameha	21	50
59	Chun	Brandon	Waiakea	21	52
60	Sullivan	William	Pahoa	21	54
61	Keaunui	Kaulana	Pahoa	21	54
62	Tada	Dallas	Kamehameha	21	58
63	St. George	Jacob	Waiakea	22	00
64	Ogawa	Rogan	Kamehameha	22	01
65	Shibata	Tylor	Waiakea	22	01
66	Walsh	Hamlet	Pahoa	22	08
67	Kealaiki	Micah	Kamehameha	22	14
68	Christensen	Hunter	Kamehameha	22	15
69	Yamamoto	Matthew	Kamehameha	22	17
70	Miranda	Kahi	Hilo	22	17
71	Wills	Joseph	Waiakea	22	20
72	Hashimoto	Trent	Hilo	22	20
73	Olaso	Drake	Waiakea	22	21
74	Parker	Landru	Keaau	22	22
75	Winters	Travis	Waiakea	22	23
76	Tanimoto	Easten	Kamehameha	22	27
77	DuVoisin	David	Kamehameha	22	32
78	Sanstrom	Owen	Waiakea	22	37
79	Yamamoto	Caden	Waiakea	22	52
80	Cheng	Kenneth	Waiakea	22	53
81	Tanaka	Lance	Waiakea	23	18
82	Murayama	Garry	Waiakea	23	19
83	Cristobal	Ian	Waiakea	23	21
84	Kerr	Max	Hilo	23	22
85	McAuliffe	Chris	Waiakea	23	24
86	Dipert	Josh	Pahoa	23	24
87	Takato	Hirohisa	Hilo	23	28
88	Kackley	Jacob	Kamehameha	23	31
89	Aiu	Kamanao	Kamehameha	23	34
90	Yoshida	Tristan	Waiakea	23	34
91	Passmore	Will	Christian Liberty	23	35
92	Douglas	Keanu	Kamehameha	23	42
93	Kawakami	Dustin	Keaau	23	50
94	Burke	Sean	Waiakea	23	56
95	Freitas	Keenan	Christian Liberty	23	58
96	Yamauchi	Dalen	Waiakea	24	03
97	Eberling	William	Waiakea	24	04
98	Chai	Zachary	Kamehameha	24	10
99	Simon-Paulino	Chaney	Keaau	24	39
100	Phillips	Cody	Pahoa	24	49
101	Sumida	Jordan	Keaau	25	05
102	Tanaka	Jason	Waiakea	26	28
103	Houghton	Ben	Ka’u	26	34
104	Kang	Maverick	Kamehameha	26	58
105	Clark	Ian	Christian Liberty	27	28
106	Tolentino	Charles	Pahoa	29	42
107	Bowers	Matt	Ka’u	30	16
108	Aneteneh	Berehan	Ka’u	30	18