On September 26^th, Mission raced against a very competitive Logan team at Cesar Chavez Middle School in Union City.  Due to some confusion with the course and all of Mission’s top Frosh/Soph runners going the wrong direction, Logan won 15 to 50.  In the Girls Junior Varsity division Logan won 24 to 33.  Esther Chu had a great debut race, leading the Mission girls with a time of 14:24, followed closely by solid performances from Zoe Lu and Estefanie Del Cid.  Despite the efforts of Jerry Chai 12:34, Brian Tsui 12:49, Justin Soong 12:51 and Chirag Vasavda 13:01, Logan won the Junior Varsity Boys division 15 to 44.

Katherine Eve led the Varsity Girls to a solid win over Logan.  Katherine won the race in a time of 21:24, followed by a solid block of Mission runners with Sonia Sajja (22:07), Allyson Blenis (22:13), Anjana Bala (22:17) and Siwen Dickstein (22:26) placing 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th and 6^th respectively.  Chelsea Kitta (23:41) finished strong in her first race after knee surgery, finishing 8th. 

Mission’s two superstar freshmen, Joey Uken (17:20) and Evan Dankiewicz (17:23) took 2^nd and 3^rd place against the Logan boys who squeaked out a 26 to 29 victory over Mission.  With all the runners but Ricky McFerrin (18:19) returning next year, Mission should be in good shape with Teddy Fong (18:29), Vito Prasad (18:31) and Vincent Leong (20:17) who all ran strong in this very close race.