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This weekend will see the final Invite of the 2018 cross country season, and the first of the League Finals. Saturday two of our strongest leagues, the Prep and Palomares will contest their championships, while on Friday, Arcadia will host the Apache Invitational. Friday, October 25 Apache Invitational – Arcadia Park Live Results Eighty-Five schools . . . → Read More: Week 9 Preview: Last Invite, First League Finals. All of the top teams except for clear #1 Claremont raced this past weekend on our area’s two championship courses – Riverside and Mt.SAC. These competitions in big meets give us a good sense of where the teams stand heading into next week’s League Finals Meets. Arroyo, Bonita, Damien and Pioneer were especially impressive this . . . → Read More: SGV Boys XC Rankings: Week 8 Almost all of the top SGV teams raced this past Saturday at either Riverside or Mt.SAC, and so we got to see how everyone stacked up against strong competition. The exceptions were Claremont and Mayfield who ran B-Teams at Mt.SAC and Riverside. The Wolfpack continue to be the class of the SGV, while the Cubs . . . → Read More: SGV Girls XC Rankings: Week 8 This was the second week of the CIF Southern Section Rankings expanding to 16, and the San Gabriel Valley increased its share in the rankings from 22 teams to 25. This is a big achievement for our area. We make up just over 10% of the Southern Section’s population, yet we have nearly 16% . . . → Read More: CIF Rankings – Week 8 – 10/22: We’re up to 25! Most of the SGV’s schools are in Divisions 3 & 4, so only eight local schools competed on Saturday, but those schools are some of our best, and the performances showed it. Running in the Boys Individual Sweeps: Noah Hibbard (Sr, Arroyo) was 6th/15:08 and the Knights were equally good finishing 3rd/79:33. Noah is now . . . → Read More: Mt SAC Saturday: Two Screamers – Hibbard 15:08 and Walnut 93:08 – Lead the SGV With the CIF-SS Prelims and Finals at the Riverside Cross Country course again this year, a number of SGV teams bypassed the traditional test at Mt.SAC to run here, including seven SGV ranked teams. The course here is mostly flat, but with many turns, it runs considerably slower than other flat 3-mile layouts. In Division . . . → Read More: Riverside: Cal Boys Return to Form, Glendora & Alhambra Girls Step Up Oswaldo Cervantes (Sr, Nogales) and Haley Allen (Jr, Flintridge Prep) had the top SGV individual performances on Friday, while the Bonita boys and the South Pasadena girls, choosing to run in the divisional race,  turned in the best team performances. Bonita Soph Daniel Echeveste on his way to his first sub-16 at . . . → Read More: Mt. SAC Friday: Oswaldo & South Pas with Big Days This weekend, the focus moves to big invites on the traditional cross country championship courses. All of the SGV’s Top Ten teams, with the exception of #1 Claremont and girls #6 Mayfield will be competing. Riverside Invitational – Riverside Live Results On Saturday, ten SGV schools will compete in Riverside Invitational, on the course that . . . → Read More: Week 8 Preview: Championship Season is in View Most of the leagues wrapped up their league/cluster meet schedule last week. All of the others, except for the Montview League, will finish this week. We’ll add results and brief coverage as it becomes available, and more extended coverage as photos and race notes are made available. Tuesday, October 15th Mission League – Crescenta Valley . . . → Read More: Week 8 League Meets – Previews & Results This week, the CIF Southern Section rankings expanded to 16 for each of the five, enrollment based divisions. Up to this point, the rankings have been mostly for fun, in that they didn’t have any direct impact on CIF post-season qualifying. But beginning with this week and for the next three weeks, any team that . . . → Read More: CIF Rankings: Week 7 – We Go to 16 |
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