After blowing away an elite field at the Clovis Invitational cross country meet on Saturday, Dos Pueblos? Bryan Fernandez has been ranked as the No. 1 high school cross country runner in the country by XCnation.com.
Dos Pueblos senior Bryan Fernandez at the season’s first Channel League cross country competition. (Presidio Sports Photo)
The Dos Pueblos senior won the 5k race in 15 minutes, 9 seconds, improving his time from last year by 1:11 and finishing ahead of the second-place runner by 11 seconds.
?He?s proving that his ranking as the No. 2 runner in the country is no joke,? DP coach Leslie Wiggins Roth said after Fernandez’s win in Clovis.
The result was enough to boost Fernandez into the top spot in the country.
As a team, the DP boys finished third overall in a meet that brings together all the best teams from each CIF division. California High and Trabuco Hills were the top two boys teams.
?The competition in this race is arguably better than the California state meet, where we only compete against teams in our division,? Roth said.
Fernandez leads a Dos Pueblos team that is currently ranked No. 2 in Division 2 of CIF?s Southern Section.
The Chargers compete next at Thursday’s Channel League Meet No. 2 at Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura.
