The Piedmont High School cross country teams had a good weekend at the West Alameda County Conference Foothill Division championships on Nov. 7 at Hayward High School.
The Highlanders boys team took third place while the girls finished fifth.
Next up is the North Coast Section championships at Hayward on Nov. 21.
The boys scored 73 points to take third place. Berkeley won the championship with 30 points and Castro Valley was second at 56.
Alex Schleuning finished seventh for Piedmont in 16 minutes, 13.3 seconds on the three-mile course. Dresden Schulte-Sasse was 10th in 16:23.7. Aaron Bennett finished 17th in 16:55.3 followed immediately by Dylan Wallway in 17th in 16:56.5. Luca LaForte was 21st in 17:05.0. Cormac Ross finished 26th in 17:20.0, and Blake Riiff in 30th in 17:48.7.
Berkeley’s Sage Glaser won the race in 15:38.7.
The Highlanders girls scored 134 points in finishing fifth.
Viviane Oesterer finished 12th in 19:43.8. Cora Brozowski Schrader was 17th in 19:56.4. Madeleine Ewen and Annie Thornton finished 33rd and 34th, respectively, in 21:43.1 and 21:51.2. Zoe Snyder was 38th in 22:39.1. Livi Britt was 41st in 25:13.7 followed by Beatrice Hatch in 42nd in 25:21.9.