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Liz & Abraham Lost in the massive shuffle of Mt.SAC were two recent meets, one just before and one on the same Saturday as the big meet. Last Wednesday, the four schools of the Pomona Unified School District got together for the first Pride of Pomona XC race at Bonelli Park. Junior Liz . . . → Read More: Dog Days & Pomona: Getting Caught Up Pomona Catholic at Mt.SAC “Yeah, but let’s see how they do at Mt.SAC”. That’s a frequent response to a team that runs well in it’s opening meets, especially if it’s been on a flat course. But now that almost everyone has run at Mt.SAC, we know. The rankings of three boys teams, California, . . . → Read More: Week Seven CIF Rankings: Now We Know The SGV ran very well at last weekend’s Mt.SAC Invitational. The Arcadia boys and girls were the top teams, and the Apache’s Sergio Gonzalez and Veronica Yamane were the top local athletes on a weekend that saw nine girls break 19:00 and seventeen boys go under 16:00 despite the heat on Friday and Saturday afternoons. . . . → Read More: SGV at Mt.SAC – Combined & Adjusted 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 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 |
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