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Claremont took both wins in the first Palomares League Cluster meet, run over a flat 3 mile course at Whittier Narrows on a relatively cool afternoon. Steven Kahn The Boys defeated Ayala by 27-41 margin, taking four of the first six spots. The individual leader was Ayala junior Steven Kahn, the clear winner . . . → Read More: Palomares 1: Claremont Posts Two Solid Wins Here are two local results we missed from the weekend. First, CIF ranked Pomona Catholic took another big step in the development of their program by traveling to the Ultimook Invitational in Tillamook, OR. Senior Andrea Diaz coming up out of the Mud Pit PC finished 10th in a field of 21 in . . . → Read More: Weekend Catch Up: Pomona Catholic in Oregon & St. Paul in the IE This week will see the first three cluster meets of the SGV XC season. With the high heat behind us (at least for this week) we should see some top performances. Cluster meets all count toward the league championships.  The top teams often face the challenge of racing well in these meets while still . . . → Read More: Preview: The First Cluster Meets of 2015 There was a bit of a shake up in the second CIF rankings for 2015, released on Monday. This time, seventeen SGV schools are ranked in the Top 10 of their divisions, nine girls and eight boys.  The St. Paul girls, tenth last week, fell out of the Div. IV rankings.  But the . . . → Read More: 9/14 CIF Rankings – Seventeen SGV’s Among the Best High heat and a blackout shrunk the schedule to just two meets for the second week of the SGV Cross Country Season.  Nevertheless, we saw our first big matchup among the girls and a big step forward by one of the boys teams SGV and CIF ranked Mayfield and Flintridge Prep met up at . . . → Read More: SGV Week Two Roundup Robbie Santoyo Bishop Amat seniors Robbie Santoyo (15:28) and Adrian Diaz (15:38) went one-two in their class race and two-three overall to lead the Lancers to a 2nd place finish at the 2015 Laguna Hills Invitational.  The Div. IV #1 (80:57) edged at partial squad from Arcadia (81:48), who were led by . . . → Read More: Laguna Hills: Amat and Arcadia We were looking forward to the Rosemead Invitational to give us a good early season matchup of many of the top SGV teams.  Saturday’s power failure took away that possibility, but we went with what we have. So, in a merge of the results of the 35 SGV schools that competed at Rosemead, Friday’s . . . → Read More: SGV Merge at Rosemead If you’re going to run under the lights, you gotta have lights!  Unfortunately, the area around Rosemead HS suffered a black out during the Saturday portion of the Rosemead Invitational. It happened during the Boys Junior races.  Here is Arroyo coach Bryon Hake’s account of what happened next. Instantly, spectators sprinted to positions . . . → Read More: Rosemead Saturday: Lights Out! The Rosemead Invitational keeps growing, and this year moved to two nights!  Friday saw a field filled with SGV schools and high temperatures, even though the event is run under the lights. The event brought together Prep League rivals Mayfield and Flintridge Prep in the Girls competition.  Off of returning athletes this should . . . → Read More: Rosemead Friday: Mayfield & Los Altos Lead Finding ways to escape the heat is a big early season concern for XC.  Already this week, the Palomares League has postponed their opening cluster meet and the meet directors of the Running Brave Invite (scheduled for Saturday at Santa Fe Dam) made the decision to cancel their meet due to the anticipated heat. . . . → Read More: Week 2 Preview: Big SGV Meet Up at Rosemead |
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