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SUNNYVALE — University of San Francisco freshman Jose Madera led the men's cross country team to a strong finish at the Bronco Invitational on Saturday morning.

Madera finished 11th in the 8k invitational race with a time of 24:17.3, breaking the school record he set two weeks ago at the Stanford Invitational by 13 seconds.

"Jose is continuing to run impressively and show that he is one of the best freshman runners in the Western Region," USF associate head coach Tom Kloos said. "The people he's running with are very elite runners so it says a lot that he's mixing it up with them."

The Dons finished fourth out of 19 teams and just 14 points behind a quality UC-Davis squad. Lamar won the men's race. Santa Clara was ninth, San Diego 15th, Saint Mary's 17th and Pepperdine 18th.

All of USF's top seven finishers set new personal records; most crushing their previous times.

Junior Will Marquardt finished second for the Dons, crossing the line in 15th with a time of 24:25.8. Marquardt beat his personal best, set at the San Francisco Invitational, by 30 seconds.  Classmate Jeremy Grace was next finishing 24th in 24:37.1, which was a personal record by 27 seconds.

Ganbileg Bor edged his previous best by less than a second, crossing the line in 20:40.1 in 27th place. Senior Joshua Horeled rounded out USF's scoring five by setting a 26-second personal best with a 25:03 for 50th place.

Junior Colin Hopkins finished just two tenths of a second behind Horeled, beating his personal best by 22 seconds. Michael Barnes was seventh for the Dons in 25:18, which was a 13-second personal best for the junior.

"This was a good confidence builder," Kloos said. "We ran some good times today. For our fifth runner to finish in 25:03 that shows we are a solid team. Jeremy ran a huge PR and Will bounced back and ran really well again."

The USF men's B squad, with three freshman and two sophomores making up the scoring five, won the open race. Adam Smith, Jordan Baker and Gustavo Meno finished fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, with times of 25:46.3, 25:52 and 25:52.7.

Jason Waldram was 15th in 26:35.1 and Charlie Johansen was 18th with a time of 26:38.8.

The USF women's B squad was 15th in the 5k invitational race. Carly Holman crossed the line first in 18:06 with Alice Hobbs next in 18:21.1. Alice Baker and Sarah Pearson finished in 18:26.3 and 18:32,4, respectively. Sahar Bala completed the scoring five with a run of 18:39.6.

"The women's team had some trouble early on in the race and had a difficult time overcoming that," Kloos said. "Carly did a good job breaking out to run the second half of the race really well."

Freshman Mary Sandri was 14th in the 5k open race in a time of 18:56.6 with freshman Morgan Martin finishing in 19:47.9.

The men's and women's team will both be back in action on Saturday, Oct. 30 for the West Coast Conference Championships at Belmont Springs.

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  1     11       656 Jose Madera            FR 24:17.3

  2     15       657 Will Marquardt         JR 24:25.8

  3     24       651 Jeremy Grace           JR 24:37.1

  4     27       649 Ganbileg Bor           JR 24:40.1

  5     50       654 Joshua Horeled         SR 25:03.7

  6   ( 53)      652 Colin Hopkins          JR 25:03.9

  7   ( 69)      648 Michael Barnes         JR 25:18.3

 

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  1      4       662 Adam Smith             FR 25:46.3

  2      5       647 Jordan Baker           SO 25:52.0

  3      6       660 Gustavo Mena           FR 25:52.7

  4     15       664 Jason Waldram          SO 26:35.1

  5     18       655 Charlie Johansen       FR 26:38.8

  6   ( 19)      646 Ravi Amarawansa        SR 26:43.2

  7   ( 25)      659 Jimmy McManus          FR 27:10.0