Schurr jumped to the front of the Almont league, as they opened their season at Legg Lake on Wednesday. Running on the flat 3-mile course, the girls were clear winners while the boys were first by the smallest possible margin.
Complete Results 2015 Almont Cluster Meet #1
Full coverage after the jump Continue reading Almont #1: Schurr on Top!
The Palomares League, featuring five ranked teams, met up for their second cluster meet on Tuesday. They had slightly cooler weather (mid 80’s) and tougher course – the 3 mile Invite course at Bonelli Park.  The day saw strong team battles and several big individual performances.  Claremont took both sides, with Ayala and Bonita reversing their order from the first meet in both races
Full Results for the 2015 Palomares League Cluster Meet #2 are here.
Full coverage after the jump Continue reading Palomares #2: Claremont Stays on Top
The opening month of the 2015 Cross Country season will wrap up with at least 48 SGV teams scattering to six meets.  The biggest meet in both quality and size is the Stanford Invitational and will have several strong SGV match ups.  Almost all of the top local teams are racing, with only El Rancho, California and Bonita taking the weekend off.  However, several teams are likely to hold their Varsity teams out of the races ahead of big cluster meets next week.
Previews for all of the meets after the jump Continue reading Week 4 Preview: We’re Kind of All Over the Place
The Miramonte kicked off their league competition on a hot Thursday at the very hilly and tough course at Schabarum Park in Rowland Heights.
Bassett took top honors on both sides.  The boys had 36 points to edge out La Puente’s 48.  The Olympians Manuel Fernandez (16:37) and Dino Ramirez (16:50) led the field.  Jose Perez was next at 17:01 to lead the runners up and Luis Godinez was 4th/17:08 to lead third-placed Edgewood.
The Bassett girls, led by Jennifer Berrios (4th/20:57) had a slightly bigger margin, 30-58 over Garey, who were paced by Rosealba Herrera (6th/22:32).  The overall winner at 20:57 was Laura Diaz, who lead Edgewood to a third place finish, and she was followed across the line by Karen Herrera of La Puente in 21:27.
Full Results for the 2015 Miramonte League Cluster Meet #1…
The SGV’s league for its smallest schools has several of the area’s strongest teams. Flintridge Prep boys and girls ranked #1 in CIF Div. V, while Mayfield is #1 in the girls CIF Div. IV, and all three teams are in the Top 5 of the all-division rankings for the San Gabriel Valley.
Racing on the hilly 3-mile course at Crescenta Valley Park, which runs close to Mt.SAC time-wise, Flintridge Prep were the winners of both events.
The Boys, running within themselves, dropped a perfect 15 while  taking the first seven spots.  SGV seasonal #1 Jack Van Scoter led with a 16:29 performance.  Michael Yen, 8th at 18:11, was the best for runner up Polytechnic.
The Girls race was a showdown that didn’t happen. Both of the top teams ran controlled efforts, but Mayfield was especially restrained, clearly looking to Saturday and the remaining two Prep League meet. The Cubs first 6 finished within a second of each other, and this tipped the balance to Flintridge Prep 40-45.  Both teams will race for reels on Saturday at Stanford.
Tops for Prep was frosh Sasha Codiga 3rd/20:23 while Mayfield was led by Marissa Sanchez 7th/21:15.  Tops in race were Vivian Wheeler 1st/20:22 and Sophie Schleifer 2nd/20:23 for third placed Polytechnic.  4th-placed Westridge was paced by Emma Linde 5th/20:43.
Full Results for the 2015 Prep League Cluster Meet #1 are Here (Excel File)
Arcadia is one of three powers in the Pacific League, along with Burroughs (Burbank) and Crescenta Valley.  On the boys side, the Apaches are facing a strong challenge from Burroughs with CV just behind, while the girls were the clear favorites.
Racing on a hot Thursday on the fast, flat 3-mile course at Arcadia Park, Arcadia came out on top twice. Using a multi-dual format, in which the all of the teams run in one race but then the results are used to score dual meets between all of the participants, the boys were 7-0, edging Crescenta Valley 26-29, and beating Burroughs by a larger margin.
Arcadia was led by the seasonal debut of defending State Champ Phillip Rocha, who was the overall winner in 14:59.06.  Unfortunately, the Apaches have lost their strong projected #2 Dominic Gonzales, who had transferred from Walnut last winter only to return last week.  Nevertheless, they placed three more in a tightly bunched Top Ten: Chris Lee 4th/15:13.88, Tony Segura 8th/15:20.46 and Joseph Vasquez 9th/15:23.50
Arcadia was also helped by Burroughs holding out a few top runners, so the next cluster and finals should be a strong three-way race.
The Girls race was not expected to be as contested, and even with the Sweeps race at Stanford less than 48 hours away, Arcadia were the easy winners. Conceding the top places, they put their five in the first nine while running mostly together: Holly Lung 3rd/18:02.41, Jasmine He 4th/18:07.28, Kelly Liang 7th/18:18.72, Eryca Yamane 8th/18:33.72 and Joy Huang 9th/18:35.47
Full Results for the 2015 Pacific League Cluster Meet #1 are here at PrepCalTrack.
The South Pasadena Boys ran to a comfortable win and La Cañada Girls ran to an even bigger margain in the first Rio Hondo League meet, run over a flat 3 mile course at Lacy Park in San Marinothe hilly 3 mile course at Crescenta Valley Park.
Kieran Press-Reynolds (Jr, South Pasadena) and Katie Scoville (So, La Cañada) were the easy and expected individual winners.
More to follow
2015 Rio Hondo League Cluster Meet Full Results:Â RHL #1 Full Results
Full Team Scores after the jump Continue reading Rio Hondo #1: South Pas & La Cañada with Comfortable Wins
Full coverage of the 2015 Camino Real League Cluster Meet #1 will follow
Full coverage of the 2015 Camino Real League Cluster Meet #1 will follow
Full results for the 2015 Valle Vista League Cluster Meet #1 will follow.
TEAM SCORES
| J.V. GIRLS | J.V.BOYS | FROSH/SOPH BOYS | VARSITY GIRLS | VARSITY BOYS |
| 1 COVINAÂ Â Â Â 22 PTS | 1 COVINAÂ Â Â Â Â Â 25 PTS | 1 ROWLAND 41 PTS | 1 COVINAÂ Â Â Â 23 PTS | 1 COVINAÂ Â Â Â Â Â 21 PTS |
| 2 WILSONÂ Â Â Â 37 PTS | 2 WILSONÂ Â Â Â Â Â 65 PTS | 2 WILSONÂ Â Â Â 56 PTS | 2 WILSON | 2 WILSONÂ Â Â Â Â Â 58 PTS |
| 3 NOGALESÂ Â 85 PTS | 3 ROWLAND 85 PTS | 3 COVINAÂ Â Â Â 61 PTS | 3 ROWLAND | 3 ROWLANDÂ Â 60 PTS |
INDIVUDUAL WINNERS
| J.V. GIRLS | J.V. BOYS | FROSH/SOPH BOYS | VARSITY GIRLS | VARSITY BOYS |
| DESIREE VALADEZ 22:40 | ANDREW RUBACAVA 18:01 | JIMMY LEI 18:43 | DEMI MARINE 19:13 | DANIEL SALAZAR 16:12 |
| COVINA | COVINA | ROWLAND | COVINA | COVINA |