Prep cross country: Lightning’s Voge eighth

ORANGE - Sage Hill High freshman Mike Voge finished eighth at the

Academy League boys cross country finals Monday at Irvine Regional Park.

Voge completed the three-mile course in 17:43, just 16 seconds off the

league’s sixth and final individual qualifying berth into the CIF

Southern Section preliminaries.

Following Voge, who had the top time among freshmen, were teammates

Tristan Cordier (26th in 19:42), Macs Frederick (27th in 20:04), Chris

Chiboucas (34th in 20:41) and Kent Kuran (35th 20:48).

Sage Hill finished fifth in the seven-team competition with 130

points.

Whitney won the boys team title and Patrick Fitzgerald from Calvary

Chapel of Downey (16:42) was the individual champion.

In the girls race, Breeana Garrett paced Sage Hill, finishing 28th in

24:48.

Alis Brito (34th in 25:26), Keila Aguilar (36th in 27:27), Ashley

Negrette (38th in 28:04), Megan Curry (39th in 28:57) and Sayeh Nodoust

(41st in 29:46) also ran for the Sage Hill girls, who finished seventh as

a team.

Oxford Academy won the girls team title and Susan Bush from St.

Margaret’s (21:15) was the individual winner.