Cross Country: Locals perform well at Mt. SAC

Individually, Glendora's Kelly Hernandez and Austin Mendoza led the locals with the only sub 16:00 performances, while Johnny Flores of South Hills had a big PR.† The expeted showdown between ESGV's top performers coming into the meet, South El Monte's Jayson Perez and Glendora's Anthony Castro and Austin Goodheart, didn't materialize when they all underperformed to expectations, but they still ran relatively fast times.

Among the girls, four runners, all from different schools, stood out with sub 19:00 performances.† West Covina's Jessica Mendez was top with a 18:36 effort, a big PR and better than the area's best effort from last year.† Joining Jessica were Bonita frosh Melissa Scott (18:45), Taylor Hebb (St. Lucy's, 18:56) and heat winner Carly Lake (Charter Oak, 18:59)

St. Lucy's and Bonita came into the meet ranked in the CIF-SS Div. 3, and both performed well and held their spots.† They are ranked 5th and 8th, respectively, in this week's polls, after finishing 4th and 7th, respectively in Friday's Div. 3 Sweepstakes race.

Boys Top Teams (from a merge combining the results of the only the ESGV teams)
1. † 22 † Glendora
2. † 89 † Los Altos
3. 140 † West Covina
4. 158 † South El Monte
5. 166 † South Hills
6. 183 † Arroyo
7. 210 † Damien
8. 224 † Walnut
9. 248 † Northview
10. 278 † Rowland

Boys Top Performers
1. 15:42†† Kelly Hernandez - Glendora
2. 15:49†† Austin Mendoza - Glendora
3. 16:10 † Jayson Perez - South El Monte
4. 16:13†† Austin Goodheart - Glendora
5. 16:14†† Joshua Sanchez - Los Altos
6. 16:18†† Anthony Castro - Glendora
7. 16:24†† Johnny Flores - South Hills
8. 16:29 † Fabian Velasco - Duarte
9. 16:32†† Shin Yamamura - Glendora
10. 16:37†† John Garcia - Damien
11. 16:41†† Isaias Hinojosa - South El Monte
12. 16:41†† Miguel Gonzalez - Los Altos
13. 16:52†† Kevin Gomez - West Covina
14. 16:52 † Israel Orosco - Azusa

Girls Top Teams (from a merge combining the results of the only the ESGV teams)
1. †63†† St. Lucy's
2. †73†† West Covina
3. †98†† Bonita
4. 114†† Los Altos
5. 125†† Rosemead
6. 181†† Arroyo
7. 187†† South Hills
8. 200† Walnut
9. 200† Rowland
10. 203† Glendora

Girls Top Performers
1. 18:36 † Jessica Mendez - West Covina
2. 18:45†† Marissa Scott - Bonita
3. 18:56†† Taylor Hebb - St. Lucy's
4. 18:59 † Carly Lake - Charter Oak
5. 19:01 † Lauren Justus - Glendora
6. 19:11††† Marissa Horton - St. Lucy's
7. 19:19†† Brittnie Munoz - Rosemead
8. 19:32 † Reina Sotelo - Los Altos
9. 19:34 † Kristen Galvez - Rowland
10. 19:37 † Vanessa Lopez - Rowland
11. 19:49 † Karissa Austin - West Covina
12. 19:51†† Nicollette Garcia - Los Altos
13. 20:11†† Lexie Jackson - Bonita
14. 20:17 † Kristen Austin - West Covina