Bell Gardens: Keppel Girls, Los Altos Boys SGV’s Best

The 25th Annual Bell Gardens Invite went off Saturday at a new location, Cerritos Regional Park, and a new speediness with producing results.  The flat, 3-mile course was probably a bit quicker than the traditional course at Legg Lake, and it led to a number of very fast performances.  The meet saw 26 schools take part, including several from the L.A. City Section and southeast L.A. County

Susie Garcia

The SGV’s top team performance – measured from a merge of all four divisions in the results linked below – came from the improving Mark Keppel girls.  The Aztecs were second, by just five points to L.A. Marshall, and equal on points to short-handed Los Altos but had the faster #6 runner.  Best for Keppel was senior Patsy Hurly 7th/19:13.  The Conquerors put three in the top ten – Emily Ruiz 5th/18:55, Bianca Hernandez 8th/19:15 and Jade Ku 10th/19:27 – but 4 and 5 were too far back to seal the deal.  Susie Garcia (Baldwin Park) was the SGV’s best, winning the soph race and ending up fourth overall in 18:26.

On the boys side, despite missing some runners, Los Altos was best among the SGV schools with a fourth place finish, led by an SGV best from senior Jair Juarez, who was second overall in 15:19.  Baldwin Park‘s Oscar Vargas won the Soph race in 15:32, good for sixth overall, and was joined in the Top Ten by Jaime Perez (Sr, South El Monte) 8th/15:34 and Bryan Tellez (Sr, El Monte) 10th/15:41.  (Note: This corrects an earlier draft that stupidly omitted Los Altos from the team standings, which moved BP to sixth)

You can view an SGV Top Ten after jump.

Results

• Boys Combined & Teams: BG INVITE RESULTS 11-Boys (Corrected)
  
• Girls Combined & Teams:  BG INVITE RESULTS 11-Girls
  
• Results by Divsions: BG INVITE RESULTS 11 (xls file)

2011 Bell Gardens Invitational

SGV Top Ten Performers

Boys

1. 15:19  Jair Juarez – Sr, Los Altos
2. 15:32  Oscar Vargas – So, Baldwin Park
3. 15:34  Jaime Perez – Sr, South El Monte
4. 15:41  Bryan Telez – Sr, El Monte
5. 15:46  Mark Huizar – Jr, Los Altos
6. 15:47  Sergio Campos – Jr, Los Altos
7. 15:55  Justin Raya – Sr, Montebello
8. 15:56  Omar Farias – So, Garey
9. 16:01  Mark Newport – Jr, Diamond Ranch
10. 16:05  Freddy Trujillo – So, Baldwin Park

Girls

1. 18:26  Susie Garza – So, Baldwin Park
2. 18:55  Emily Ruiz – Sr, Los Altos
3. 19:13  Patsy Hurly – Sr, Mark Keppel
4. 19:15  Bianca Hernandez – Sr, Los Altos
5. 19:27  Jade Ku – So, Los Altos
6. 19:32  Jacqueline Gutierrez – So, Bell Gardens
7. 19:44  Bethany Quan – Sr, Mark Keppel
8. 19:55  Karolina Flores – Sr, El Monte
9. 19:55  Joanna Lee – Sr, San Gabriel
10. 19:57  Alyssa Ortega – So, Baldwin Park