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There wasn’t a great deal of movement in this week’s rankings, as the SAT’s and team priorities had many schools racing shorthanded or taking the week off. The La Cañada girls were not one of those teams, riding back to back wins at Bell-Jeff and Staub/Barnes to enter the CIF-SS Div. III rankings at #7. . . . → Read More: Week 4 Rankings: La Cañada Girls Bust In As we mentioned in the preview of this week, the SAT’s and the spot on the calendar, after the first set of cluster meets and just before the second cluster meets and the big meets next weekend, led many teams to compete with limited or incomplete squads. But that did nothing to diminish the many . . . → Read More: Week 4 Wrap Up: Cwik and La Cañada Continue Their Rise This meet featured a number of the SGV’s top teams, but almost none of them ran at full strength. The SAT’s combined with coaches choosing to give their front runners the week off or to run them in the class divisions rather than the varsity race skewed the results. The meet did offer a number . . . → Read More: Top Speed: Anahi, Claremont Girls & South Hills Boys are Best! The Los Altos boys and Bonita girls, winners of the first Hacienda League cluster meet, were the top SGV teams entered in the Warren/Stauffer Invite at Holydale Park in South Gate. This flat, 3-mile course has few turns and fast surfaces, so it’s super fast, and the Conq’s and Bearcats certainly proved that to be . . . → Read More: Warren/Stauffer: Conq’s and Bearcats Strong Again The Staub/Barnes Invitation gives teams a nice preview of how they’ll do at Mt.SAC. Times run on the hilly, 3-mile course at Crescenta Valley Park correlate well with the famous 2.93 track. Many of the ranked local teams were resting athletes or had others taking the SAT, but it was (as of yet) unranked La . . . → Read More: Staub/Barnes: La Cañada Girls Make It Two for Two Many teams take a break in this fourth weekend of the season. It comes just after the first wave of clusters meets and just before the second wave as well as next weekend’s big Clovis Invitational and the local SGV Challenge at Mt.SAC. And many of the teams that are racing will be holding out . . . → Read More: Week 4 Preview – Laying Low The very competitive Del Rio League kicked off the 2011 with their first cluster meet on the flat, 3-mile course at Legg Lake. Even with the warm day, these athletes and teams did not disappoint. Here’s the meet recap from California Coach Tony DiMarco: Girls Varsity race recap: Co-defending champions El Rancho were . . . → Read More: Del Rio #1: CalHi and El Rancho, FTW! The Montview League runs three cluster meets, and their finals meet at Schbarum Park, making their passionate league battles an excellent test – the same eight teams, on the same course, four times! Last year, La Puente and Azusa battled to the end for the boys title, with the Warriors taking the championship. The Sierra . . . → Read More: Montview #1: Ganesha Takes Both! The Mission Valley League came into the 2011 season with most of the talent returning from a good ‘1o season, but everyone knows it’s not who you have on paper, it’s who you can get to the line that matters. Kelly Luc The Rosemead girls got right down to the business of defending . . . → Read More: Mission Valley #1: Arroyo Boys Solid, Rosemead Girls Almost Perfect L-R: Maldonado, Mejia & Gonzalez The first Valle Vista meet of 2011 is in the books, and change is in the making. Covina is defending two-time boys and three-time girls defending champs, but the girls will have an uphill battle. Northview broke through to win today on the three mile Lake Course at . . . → Read More: Valle Vista #1: Northview Girls Step Up, Covina Boys Hold |
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