Good things are yet to come for Burnaby/New Westminster district runners.
Grace Fetherstonhaugh of New Westminster finished with a bronze medal and St. Thomas More's Cobi Juni placed fifth in their respective junior races at the B.C. high school cross-country championships in Victoria on Saturday.
Fetherstonhaugh finished third in a time of 16:28 in the junior girls' 4.1-kilometre race.
The gold medal came down to a tight finish between winner Taryn O'Neill of George Elliot and runner-up Julie Sevsek of Clayton Heights, both finishing under 16 minutes.
Emily Chilton finished in 13th spot in 17:22 to help the New West team, including Michelle Li and Ellery Hardy, to seventh place. Rachel Wong and Lauren Semkow of Moscrop placed 53rd and 70th, respectively, in the field.
Burnaby Mountain's Saira Purhar was 60th. Tea Cecic of Alpha finished 85th.
At the junior boys' 5.1km distance, Juni clocked a fifth-place time of 18:22, less than a minute behind winner Joel Harrison of Walnut Grove.
Charles Yu of Burnaby Central finished in 46th spot with a 19:42 clocking. Central teammate Matthew Pomponio placed 65th overall. Shae Janke of Burnaby South was 81st.
Eric Zhang and Tomas Ward also scored points towards Central's 14th-place team finish.
Byrne Creek's Jemal Reta finished in 20th place in the senior boys' race.
Nathan Tadesse of North Surrey won the 6.1km boys' race in a time of 20:35. Sean Bergman of Kelowna was just 13 seconds behind in second place.
STM's Alessandro Pozzollo placed 47th in the large senior boys' field. Julian Hart of Moscrop was 82nd.
Alpha's Hamish Clinton placed 90th and Andrew Woinoski of Burnaby Mountain was 95th in the field of 235 runners.
Dover Bay won the senior boys' team title handily.
Robyn Lee was the top senior girls' finisher from Burnaby, placing 49th for the Burnaby Mountain Lions.
Reesa Wright of Central was 95th and Taylor McIntosh of STM was 98th in the field of 225 senior girls' competitors.
West Point Grey edged both Sentinel and Semiahmoo for the senior girls' team aggregate.
Central girls, including Sara Brinkac, Natasha Louie, Laura Choo and Amber Chan, contributed points to the team's 15th-place finish.
