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Four members of the Amador High School cross-country team appeared shirtless on the Ledger Dispatch masthead on Friday, the day before the Jug and Rose Race. Coach Jesse Shaw had tied acquisition of team shirts to participation in the Saturday race. In a remarkable result, the four finished, from the left, first, second, fifth and third. Pictured here with their shirts are: First-place finisher Mike Wagner; Second-place finisher Brad James; Fifth-place finisher Mitchell Wendland; and, Third-place finisher Brandon Jadobs.
Jug and Rose Race organizer and Amador High School drama teacher Giles Turner leans down to hear from 11-year-old Tapanga Borba, the youngest participant in Saturday's race. Borba came with many other members of the San Francisco Pamakids Runners Club. Pamakids have run in the Jug and Rose since the early '90s, drawn to it by member Rick Shea, whose family has long had a summer home in Sutter Creek.
70-year-old Theo Jones, a member of the Pamakids Runners Club, won the Jug and Rose 70-79 division race in a time of 54:59, faster than his time as a 69-year-old last year. Jones won twice in the 50-59 division, in 1994 and 1997.
The award for best-dressed runner in the Jug and Rose Race went to Helen Loffland of Pioneer, who created quite a sensation as she sped down the Sutter Creek Volcano Road in her diaphanous red dress.
As conclusive signs of divine approval, claps of thunder greeted runners crossing the finish line in last Saturday's 36th running of the Jug and Rose Race. The 7.7-mile course, down Sutter Creek Volcano Road from the tiny town of Volcano to the park on Sutter Creek built by the Lions Club, was traversed by many dozens of racers aged 11 to more than 80.
Overall winners were Mike Wagner and Julie Taggart.
Wagner, a senior at Amador High School, with a time of 46 minutes and 40 seconds, narrowly bested his cross-country teammates from Amador, Brad James and Brandon Jacobs, who took second and third. Close on the trio's heels was 48-year old Jim Heryford, Bret Harte High School Class of '79, one of eight members of the Heryford family running in the race. In fifth place was Mitchell Wendland, the fourth Amador cross-country runner donning a shirt in the L-D masthead.
Taggart, a former Pine Grove resident now living in Roseville, wasn't sure about how many times she's won this race, but recalled only a few losses since her first victory in 1993.
Seemingly ageless Amador drama teacher Giles Turner presided over the always amusing and sometimes touching award ceremonies.
Honorary starter for the race was former owner of the Jug and Rose and also former best actor at Amador High Chris Thebaut.
