Mission Valley #1: Arroyo Boys Solid, Rosemead Girls Almost Perfect

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 their league title, dropping a nearly perfect 16 points on the MVL field.  The Panthers put all seven in the top 16, and were led across the line by senior Kelly Luc (20:45), a big 20:21 from frosh Quinley Quizada (21:01) followed by senior Jocelyn Hua (21:06) RHS’s perfect 15 was foiled by South El Monte senior Stephanie Castillo (5th/21:45) who just beat out the Panther’s #5.  Junior Samantha Perez was 10th/22:25 for the Eagles who were a clear second with 63 points.

Arroyo, struggling with multiple injuries and illnesses, was third with 78 points.  Junior Alejandra Lizarraga (11th/22:32) was best for the Knights.  Frosh Sharon Koo was a strong 7th/21:40 for Gabrielino, but a big gap left the Eagles 4th at 104 points.  El Monte was fifth (112 points), led by a 9th/22:19 finish from Katerina Flores.  Mountain View finished only three runners and did not score.

The Arroyo boys (29 pts) were clear winners on Thursday on a hilly 3-mile course at Bonelli Park, putting four in the first ten to best Rosemead (46 pts), despite missing team leader Sam Garcia, who is struggling with IT band issues.  The Knights were by a 1, 2, 4 finish from juniors Diego Lopez (16:56) & Andrew Aparicio (17:09) and soph Anthony Aparicio (17:28).  Rosemead was led by rapidly improving senior Freddy Cerezo (4th/17:15) and ’10 team leader Abraham Esparza (7th/17:36).

Gabrielino made a big step to finish third (85 pts) led by sixth place finish from senior Hayden Sawkins (17:29) but their big gap will make them vulnerable in the next meet.  El Monte, led by soph Bryan Telles (10th/17:48) was also hurt by a big gap, finishing fourth with 103 points.  South El Monte was next with 124 points, but were missing team leader Jaime Perez.  With him, the Eagles would have been close to Gabrielino.  They were paced by senior Josue Linarte (9th/17:44).  P. Puga (24th/19:23) was best for Mountain View (139 pts).

Excel file of Results: MVL league cluster 1 results 2011-corrected  (thanks to Gabrielino Coach James Marnell)

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