Arcadia ran a bit below expectations at last week’s SGV One on One Challenge, totaling only 97:29. The Apaches may have been playing possum or tired from a tough week, because they returned to Mt.SAC this week with a strong 96:07, good for 10th in the prestigious Team Sweepstakes race. Led once again by soph . . . → Read More: Mt.SAC Girls Saturday: Arcadia Assertive, Claremont & Glendora Have Hope
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Arcadia had not lost a meet since 2009. Despite key losses from their National Championship team, the Apaches kept winning, even when not favored, opening with a course record win at Woodbridge and a clutch performance at the national Bob Firmin Invite in Idaho. In Saturday’s Team Sweepstakes race, they ran very well again, but . . . → Read More: Mt.SAC Boys Saturday: Arcadia Finally Falls, El Rancho Steps Up, Glendora Slips Up Girls XC in the San Gabriel Valley has much of its talent concentrated in the three smallest CIF divisions, with four teams in today’s Mt.SAC Invitational Division III, IV, & V Sweepstakes races, and a total of seven teams ranked in the CIF-SS and half of the SGV’s Top Ten. Individually, Whittier Christian senior Kelli . . . → Read More: Mt.SAC Girls Friday: Kelli and Mayfield are the Best Dominguez last year San Gabriel Valley Cross Country has been on the upswing this year, with five CIF-SS ranked boys teams going to the line in today’s Div. III, IV, & V races. 28 SGV boys teams competed, with eight in the big Sweepstakes races and each of those teams acquitted themselves well. . . . → Read More: Mt.SAC Boys Friday: Damien, Don Bosco & Flintridge Answer the Challenge This is why we run the races. Arcadia came out blazing, running an amazing 89:20 at Woodbridge, outpacing SGV rivals Bonita by nearly four minutes. But a month later on the hills of Mt.SAC at Saturday’s SGV One on One Challenge, the Bearcats had turned the tables and bested the now short-handed Apache’s by 30 . . . → Read More: SGV Girls Team Rankings: Bonita by a Bit In the early weeks of the season, the rankings are mostly just for fun. September is a long time from November, and Woodbridge is not Mt. SAC. But beginning this week, the CIF – Southern Section rankings take on a real importance. Any team ranked in the top 13 twice in the last four weeks . . . → Read More: Week Six Rankings: This One Counts! Rankings in Cross Country are notoriously difficult. Teams run on flat courses and hilly courses, and in different weather, so that even schools running on the same course on the same day, as will probably happen at Mt.SAC this Saturday, can face very different conditions. That said, here’s our first attempt to rank the 70 . . . → Read More: SGV Boys Team Rankings: Arcadia Still #1 in the SGV The Rosemead Panthers traveled to Lake Castaic Park for the Santa Clarita Invitational. Running in the smaller of the meet’s two divisions, they took both the girls and boys titles. On the boys side, senior Freddy Cerazo was again their best with a 4th place finish, leading a 4, 8, 9, 10, 17 grouping for . . . → Read More: Santa Clarita: Rosemead Wins Twice The 25th Annual Bell Gardens Invite went off Saturday at a new location, Cerritos Regional Park, and a new speediness with producing results. The flat, 3-mile course was probably a bit quicker than the traditional course at Legg Lake, and it led to a number of very fast performances. The meet saw 26 schools take . . . → Read More: Bell Gardens: Keppel Girls, Los Altos Boys SGV’s Best
The Confirmations for the huge Mt.SAC Cross Country Invitational were released today. 57 of the SGV’s 70 schools will be taking part, with the most notable absences being Div. III ranked La Cañada and Valle Vista leaders Covina and Northview, with the Colts electing to run at last week’s SGV One on . . . → Read More: Mt.SAC Confirmations: 14 SGV Spots in the Sweeps |
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