Keeping up with Cross Country

Cluster Meets: On Tuesday, Western Christian traveled to Riverside for the Christian League meet on the rolling 3 mile course at the AB Brown Sports Complex. The boys finished third, led by junior Caleb Meister's (17:34) second place finish. The girls were led by senior Kara Quintana's eighth place finish in 23:03. The San Antonio League held their second cluster meet Wednesday on the 3 mile course at Bonelli Park. No results were submitted, but a comment on last week's blog indicated West Covina won both the boys and girls competitions.

Mt.SAC: The smaller schools, CIF Divs. III, IV, and V got things started on a hot Friday afternoon, with the girls from St. Lucy's and South Hills competing in the prestigious Div. III Sweepstakes late in the day. St. Lucy's soph Marissa Horton brought home the top honor of the day with her 9th place 19:22, leading her team to a third place finish. Bonita were fourth in the top Div III race, led by soph Heather Jackson's 19:44 seventh place finish. She was followed closely in ninth by Rosemead junior Brittnie Munoz (19:56). Wilson, paced by senior Angela Tu's sixth place, were the winners of the third Div III heat. Samantha Cabrera (Junior/Bishop Amat) was eighth in the same race.

Jayson Perez (Junior/South El Monte) led the SGV boys with his 15:58 to take home the race winner's Cow Bell for the top Div III race, followed by Victor Serrano's (Senior/Rosemead) 16:40, third place finish. Ganesha, led by seniors Oscar Castro (16:45 for 3rd) and Elijah Durian (16:52 for 6th) won the second Div III heat.
On Saturday morning, the temperature was down and so were the times. Glendora soph

Anthony Castro led all SGV performers with a breakthrough 15:49 (92nd overall) in the top Div. II race. In the second Div II heat, Los Altos was paced to a fourth place finish by senior Sergio Rodriguez' 15:59 fifth place. John Garcia (Soph/Damien) ran 16:04 for eighth in the same race. In the afternoon, the heat went way up, suppressing times and filling local emergency rooms!

Lauren Justus (Soph/Glendora) had the top SGV girls performance of the weekend with her 18:53 win (Cow Bell!) in the top Div II race. Lauren's time was 89th overall. Charter Oak frosh Carly Lake's big PR 19:19 was tenth in the same race.

Up Next: Most teams take a step back this week to prepare for the League Final meets held the following week. On Wednesday, the Montview will hold it's second cluster meet at Schabarum Park in Hacienda Heights. On Thursday, a few SGV teams will tune up for finals at the Apache Invite at Arcadia Park or that evening at the Cougar Two-Miler on the Track at Azusa Pacific University

SGV Trib Area Top Performers for Week 7

Note: Finally (almost) all of the SGV teams competed on the same course, but under very different weather conditions. It was really hot Saturday afternoon, hot on Friday, cooling by late afternoon, and cool Saturday morning when most of the times below were achieved. Those differences are noted below.

Girls
18:53 - Lauren Justus - Soph/Glendora
19:22 - Marissa Horton - Soph/St. Lucy's - *
19:44 - Heather Jackson - Soph/Bonita - **
19:53 - Liz Zuniga - Senior/South Hills - *
19:55 - Johanna Murray - Senior/Glendora
19:56 - Brittnie Munoz - Junior/Rosemead - **
19:56 - Michelle Jimenez - Senior/Baldwin Park

20:00 - Amanda Camarillo - Senior/South Hills - *
20:02 - Krissy Hebb - Frosh/St. Lucy's - *
20:03 - Taylor Hebb - Soph/St. Lucy's - *
20:04 - Shavonn Johnson - Frosh/Bonita - **
20:12 - Alex Thompson - Senior/St. Lucy's - *
20:18 - Reina Sotelo - Junior/Los Altos
20:19 - Nicolette Garcia - Soph/Los Altos

Teams: St. Lucy's, 1:40:02; Bonita, 1:42:35; Los Altos, 1:42:59; Glendora, 1:43:17; South Hills, 1:43:29

Boys
15:49 - Anthony Castro - Soph/Glendora
15:58 - Jayson Perez - Junior/South El Monte - **
15:59 - Sergio Rodriguez - Senior/Los Altos
16:04 - John Garcia - Soph/Damien
16:12 - Christopher Ramsey - Senior/Glendora
16:13 - Jesus Corral - Senior/Baldwin Park
16:18 - Joshua Sanchez - Frosh/Los Altos

16:22 - Efren Alcala - Senior/Arroyo
16:23 - Austin Goodheart - Junior/Glendora
16:28 - Kyle Maclellan - Senior/Arroyo
16:33 - Paul Nay - Senior/Baldwin Park
16:39 - Abraham Lin - Senior/Los Altos
16:40 - Victor Serrano - Senior/Rosemead
16:42 - Paul Ruiz - Senior/Arroyo

Teams: Glendora, 82:22; Los Altos, 82:36; Arroyo, 83:04; Baldwin Park, 84:20; Ganesha, 86:19