{"id":8341,"date":"2021-02-13T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:23:20","slug":"herrera-places-second-in-first-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/herrera-places-second-in-first-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera places second in first race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8341\" class=\"elementor elementor-8341\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29215a26 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"29215a26\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce3632d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ce3632d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Former Madera South cross country standout Eduardo \u201cLalo\u201d Herrera placed second at the Florida State Winter Classic to lead the Colorado Buffaloes to a third place team finish.<\/p><p>The Buffaloes, who are ranked 13th in the country, actually tied for second with sixth-ranked Iowa State, but lost in the tiebreaker. Fellow Pac-12 opponent Stanford, ranked 12th in the nation, won the team race Feb.5.<\/p><p>The day belonged to Herrera, who had one of the best cross country races of his life for his second-place finish, according to Linda Sprouse of the Univeristy of Colorado athletics department.<\/p><p>He moved to the front of the pack from the start and continued his way up until he was in third overall, which is where he would stay until he made a move between the 5k and 6k splits, pushing him into second.<\/p><p>From there, he would continue to push, maintaining his position for the outstanding finish. He finished a full 13 seconds ahead of FSU\u2019s Adriaan Wildschutt. ISU\u2019s Wesley Kiptoo won the race in 22:48.8.<\/p><p>\u201cHe\u2019s had a wonderful last six months,\u201d head coach Mark Wetmore said. \u201cHe worked so hard this summer when everything was shut down and he was home alone; he had the best summer of his life. He is a completely different runner than a year ago.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>Daniel Ruiz<\/strong> (Madera) wrestled in his first match for Loras College based in Iowa. He lost his 157 pound match on Jan. 10, 4-0 against Nebraska-Kearney.<\/p><p>Colleges across the nation are getting started and many Madera athletes open their athletic campaign this weekend. Check next week\u2019s Madera Tribune Sports section for their updates.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Madera South cross country standout Eduardo \u201cLalo\u201d Herrera placed second at the Florida State Winter Classic to lead the Colorado Buffaloes to a third place team finish. The Buffaloes, who are ranked 13th in the country, actually tied for second with sixth-ranked Iowa State, but lost in the tiebreaker. Fellow Pac-12 opponent Stanford, ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}