Warrior boys medal at Laguna Hills Invite

The Laguna Hills Cross-Country Invitational meet gives medals to the top 40 finishers in each race and, at this year’s Sept. 13 meet, six of the 18 Fallbrook High School boys who ran received medals.

“We did pretty well,” said Fallbrook boys head coach Marco Arias. “The guys we expected to run well ran well. We had a couple of surprises.”

Temperatures had risen into the 90s by the final boys race. “They were trying to get it done pretty quickly,” Arias said of the meet. “We got out there early enough that it wasn’t too extreme.”

The heat caused Arias to hold back one of his freshman runners. F...