KEAAU — Waiakea’s Saya Yabe had just finished off another commanding victory in a BIIF cross-country race when a league official, looking ahead to the soon-to-start boys race, said, “Well, the next one should be good.”
The official was right.
Kealakehe’s Ziggy Bartholomy and Konawaena’s Cody Ranfranz caught Waiakea’s Slater Inouye at about the 2-mile mark, and Bartholomy was happy to stick with Ranfranz, the most consistent boys runner this season, until taking the lead with a half-mile to go.
Bartholomy never could shake Ranfranz, but he didn’t need to. Bartholomy said he “had nothing left” afterward, but it was enough to finish first by 88 one-hundredths of a second.