Hernandez, Contreras medal at Dana Hills Invitational

The Dana Hills Nike Invitational cross country meet provides medals to the top 50 finishers in each race, and the recipients of those medals at this year's meet Sept. 22 included Fallbrook runners Josh Hernandez and Danny Contreras.

Hernandez finished ninth among the 161 runners in the Division 1 boys junior race. Contreras was the 22nd finisher in the Division 1 boys sophomore race which had 276 competitors.

Hernandez posted a time of 15:53.1 on the 3.0-mile course.

"That's just phenomenal," said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias.

Contreras completed the course in 16:28.

"That 16:28 was very impressive for him," said Arias.

Cross country team scores are derived by adding the finishing positions of a school's first five runners. The sixth and seventh finishers are not scored but can add points to other team's totals. Fallbrook's juniors had 278 points to place 11th among the 18 teams with the minimum five runners for a team score; Long Beach Wilson was 10th with 274 points and Mount Carmel had the 12th-place total of 287 points.

Joe Bell was Fallbrook's second junior finisher and was 71st overall with a time of 17:29.9. Tristan Suppe had a time of 17:30.0, which was worth 72nd place. Osvaldo Urbina became the 87th finisher 17:53.7 after the race began. Angel Gonzalez finished in 17:58.8 for 90th place. Andres Martinez took 119th place and had a time of 18:38.3, and a time of 18:53.9 gave Christian Goodell 128th place.

Fallbrook's sophomores finished 20th among the 21 full teams. Nash Youngren was the Warriors' second finisher and placed 158th overall at 18:52.4. Thomas LiBrizzi finished 206th and had a time of 19:53.9. His 20:20.2 performance gave Quinn Lynas 217th place. Luke Spencer received 242nd place for his time of 21:23.7. Jacob Crain posted a time of 22:15.6 which was worth 254th place.