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Defending CIF-SS Div. 2 Champs Claremont began the season with a small edge in the pre-season rankings, but off of early performances, the Wolfpack has run away from the field. Adding a transfer and a soph making a big jump in performance to their scorers, and having seven (!) boys already under 15:00, in a . . . → Read More: SGV Boys Rankings – Week 3: Claremont Extends Their Lead The Claremont girls are three-time defending CIF Champs and two-time defending State Champs, so they came into 2018 as the class of the SGV. But even starting from a high level, the Wolfpack have taken a big step forward. Returning four of their first five from 2017, they’ve add super frosh Maddie Coles (#4 in . . . → Read More: SGV Girls Rankings – Week 3: Claremont is Way Up The California boys (8th D1) and Walnut girls (7th D1) rode strong performances in the Woodbridge Invitational Sweepstakes races to jump into the CIF Rankings this week.  Claremont (boys & girls) and the Flintridge Prep boys remain top ranked in their divisions. The Arroyo boys fell out of the rankings, leaving the SGV with . . . → Read More: CIF-SS Rankings – Week 3: Cal Boys & Walnut Girls – Case Made Nogales’ Osvaldo Cervantes leads a pack of runners during the Boys Division 3 CIF-Southern Section Cross Country Finals at Riverside City Cross Country Course in Riverside Saturday, November 18, 2017. FRANK BELLINO, THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE/SCNG Oswaldo Cervantes (Nogales, Sr) had a breakthrough performance and the Walnut girls scored an excellent team result to highlight . . . → Read More: Woodbridge Day 2: Walnut Girls & Arcadia Boys are Best The smaller schools kicked off the action Friday at the massive Woodbridge Invitational – run over a very fast and flat 3-mile course at Silverlakes Sports Park in Norco. The SGV #4 Bishop Amat girls opted to run in the divisional race rather than the big race on Saturday, and turned in a very fine . . . → Read More: Woodbridge Day 1: Amat Confirms, South Pas Arrives, Damien Step Up The Woodbridge Invitational is huge. It’s run over two days by 320 schools, nearly 100 in just the elite Sweepstakes and Rated races. Teams are coming from 14 states and five different time zones. It’s outgrown several locations and is now held in Norco rather than at Woodbridge in Irvine. The meet also looms large . . . → Read More: Woodbridge Invite Preview: Many Runners. Much Races. The Hacienda League Opened their league season on Wednesday with a pair of expected wins from Walnut. The Mustangs are defending boys and girls champs and returned all but one of their scorers so they came in expecting to defend, and they did. In the girls race, Walnut’s top four ran together and ran away, . . . → Read More: Hacienda #1 – Walnut Doubles Up Arroyo senior Noah Hibbard is our first SGV Athlete of the Week for 2018, on the strength of his dominating win at the Rosemead Invitational. His 14:28 at Rosemead was the fastest ever for a SGV athlete on that course. Noah is the defending Mission Valley League champ, and finished 14th at last year’s CIF-SS . . . → Read More: Noah Hibbard – SGV Athlete of the Week (Wk 2) Arroyo took their first steps toward defending their Mission Valley League Championships Tuesday, with two comfortable wins in the first MVL cluster, running on the flat and fairly fast 3-mile course at Whitter Narrows/Legg Lake in South El Monte. The Start of the Boys Varsity Race The boys race went out comfortably until . . . → Read More: Mission Valley #1: Arroyo Doubles Up Sixteen San Gabriel Valley teams rank in the Top Ten of the CIF-SS five divisions. Unlike other sports that try to group schools by “competitive equity” cross country’s divisions are solely by enrollment. The big move comes from the La Cañada girls, who were dropped from the rankings last week after running a partial team . . . → Read More: CIF Rankings – Week 2: Claremont Boys to the Top, La Cañada Girls Back In. |
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