Sierra #1: Glendora Boys Lead, St. Lucy’s Second

The tough Sierra League, featuring area teams Diamond Bar, Damien/St. Lucy’s, and Glendora, began league competition on Tuesday, racing on the 5k course at Bonelli Park in San Dimas.  The Tartan boys ran very strongly to win, placing four in the top five and six in the first eleven.  St. Lucy’s, running without two top runners, was second to CIF Div II ranked Ayala.

Junior Anthony Castro and senior Austin Goodheart led Glendora on a day in which all seven runners PR’d.  The Tartans broke the course record with a time (runners 1-5) of 81:47.  The previous best was 81:56 by Ayala ’06.  Up and coming Diamond Bar, led by soph James McCreary’s 6th place,  narrowly missed finishing 3rd by 6 points.  The Brahmas were missing their usual tight grouping among their first three runners, and that was the difference.  Damien fielded a very young team, and were led by junior John Garcia, who is still looking to regain the strong form he showed last year.

On the girls side, top runners Melissa Horton, and Kristyn Hebb of St. Lucy’s and Lauren Justus of Glendora  sat out with injuries and/or illness.  Junior Taylor Hebb led the Monarchs Regents (oops) with a strong second place finish, and her team did well to hold off a resurgent Chino Hills.  Diamond Bar was a distant fourth, but frosh Kelly Kuo‘s 13th was a bright spot, as was junior Allison Mayo‘s big PR for 15th for the Tartans.

Top Area Performers

Girls:  2. St. Lucy’s 52, 4. Diamond Bar 125, 6. Glendora 145

  1. 19:08  Taylor Hebb  JR-St. Lucy’s  2nd overall
  2. 19:59  Katy Hebb  SO-St. Lucy’s  7th
  3. 20:24  Emily Bruce JR-St. Lucy’s  10th
  4. 20:43  Kelly Kuo  FR-Diamond Bar  13th
  5. 20:48  Mariah Reyes  SO-St. Lucy’s  14th
  6. 20:48  Allison Mayo  JR-Glendora  15th
  7. 21:18  Danica Ceballos  St. Lucy’s  19th

Boys:  1. Glendora 22, 4. Diamond Bar 88, 5. Damien 128

  1. 16:02 Anthony Castro  JR-Glendora  1st overall
  2. 16:15  Austin Goodheart  SR-Glendora  2nd
  3. 16:20  Austin Mendoza  SO-Glendora  4th
  4. 16:23  Kelly Hernandez  JR-Glendora  5th
  5. 16:30  James McCreary  SO-Diamond Bar  6th
  6. 16:47  Neill Netzeband  SR-Glendora  10th
  7. 16:48  Shin Yamamura  JR-Glendora  11th

Complete results: sierra-1-boys-var-09.pdf   and sierra-1-girls-var-09.pdf

Results plus photos here.

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