By Bob Ramsey, on November 6th, 2009 The Los Altos boys and CIF ranked Bonita girls have led the Miramonte league all year, and easily stayed at the front in Thursday’s league finals at Mt.Sac.
Los Altos, led by soph Joshua Sanchez, put down a dominating 19 points, with six of the top 7 (!) finishers, easily outdistancing Diamond Ranch and Bonita. Josh led top finishers Paul Balderas (DR) and teammate Miguel Gonzalez to the podium.
Bonita’s parade to the front (with 5 of the top 10) was interrupted by a great effort by Charter Oak soph Carly Lake, who outran Bearcat frosh Marissa Scott and Lexie Jackson for the win. Carly also led her team to the post-season, where they’ll be joined by Los Altos, who were led by Reina Sotelo‘s 4th place finish.
Top performers, team scores and complete results after the jump. Continue reading Miramonte: Los Altos & Bonita Roll – Sophs Josh and Carly Tops
By Bob Ramsey, on November 6th, 2009 Still waiting for complete results, but here’s a report from Covina coach Erik Starkey:
We ran at Bonelli Park, 3 mile course. Girls results: Covina 24 Baldwin Park 46 Ganesha 65. 1st place was Rachel Falomir of Covina 19:49. Rachel was undefeated and was named League MVP. 2nd was Natalina Lopez of Covina 20:34. Covina wins the league title for the second year in a row.
Boys results: Northview 30 Covina 53 Baldwin Park 55. 1st place was Alfredo Folgar of Northview 16:10. 2nd was Frankie Gonzalez of Covina 16:21. Frankie was named League MVP. Northview and Covina both end up with a total of 26 points after 3 meets, and are co-league champions. (Covina’s 1st title since ’93)
By Bob Ramsey, on November 6th, 2009 The five teams of the San Antonio League performed to expectations at Wednesday’s final meet on the 3 mile Beach course at Bonelli Park in San Dimas. The South Hills guys were heavy favorites and took the top four places for an easy win over West Covina and Walnut. Johnny Flores was the easy winner, leading Huskie teammates Gilbert Mundo, Alex Rodriguez, and Christian Sanchez across the line in a tightly bunched race in which places 4-10 finished only 8 seconds apart.
Jessica Mendez led the girls finishers by 30 seconds, but couldn’t pull her favored West Covina teammates far enough, as the Bulldogs were tied by South Hills, 38-38, with the Huskies winning on the better sixth runner – Monica Arteaga‘s 17th place. Mendez was followed across the line by Vanessa Lopez (Rowland) and Ashley Holguin (South Hills). Edit: Rowland finished third, but may not advance due to Nogales’ failure to start a full team, reducing the league to four teams and two post-season spots.
Top performers, team scores, and complete results after the jump. Continue reading San Antonio: South Hills Sweeps, Flores & Mendez As Expected
By Bob Ramsey, on November 6th, 2009 Coming into the Sierra League Finals, the CIF and State ranked Glendora boys were clear favorites for the team and individual titles, but the question was “which boy?”. The Tartan’s Anthony Castro and Austin Goodheart had won the earlier Sierra meets, and Kelly Hernandez had led the team and the ESGV at Mt.Sac. Fast rising soph Austin Mendoza was also a possibility.
On Tuesday at Mt.Sac, Hernandez again claimed the top spot with a controlled 15:58, leading teammates Mendoza and Goodheart across the line as Glendora put 4 in the top 7 for an easy win. Diamond Bar, led by soph James McCreary‘s 9th place, just missed advancing to CIF, while Damien’s Johnathan Garcia was an individual qualifier with his 5th place result.
Among the girls, Glendora’s Lauren Justus capped off her return from illness with a commanding 18:45 win and an individual qualifying spot. In the team race, CIF and State ranked St. Lucy’s faced off with ranked Ayala for the team title, having split the two cluster meets. The Regents, despite a 2-3 finish from Taylor Hebb & Marissa Horton, had a bit of an off day and finished second. Diamond Bar was well back, but Kelly Kuo closed out her season with an excellent 13th place, tops among SL 9th graders.
Top area finishers and complete results after the jump. Continue reading Sierra: Glendora boys, Lauren & Kelly win, St. Lucy’s Falls just short
By Bob Ramsey, on November 6th, 2009 The Mission Valley League had two of the top returning runners coming into this year, seniors Jayson Perez of South El Monte and Brittnie Munoz of Rosemead, and neither disappointed at Tuesday’s MVL finals. Running on the hilly 3 mile course at Bonelli Park in San Dimas, Jayson easily defended his league title with a 30 second win over Arroyo’s Efren Alcala and teammate Isaias Hinojosa. Brittnie was again the winner by an even bigger margin, leading teammate Kelly Luc and Veronica Vejar (SEM) by nearly a minute.
Jayson and Brittnie also led their schools to the team titles. Among the boys, the Eagles will be joined at CIF by Rosemead and Arroyo, along with El Monte’s Brandon Martinez, who qualified individually. SEM was very strong, putting 3 in the top 4 and 5 in the top 10. The Panther girls, who placed 4 in the top 10, will move on with Arroyo and Gabrielino, and individual qualifier Veronica Vejar (SEM)
Top finishers, team scores, and links to complete results and a photo galery after the jump. Continue reading Mission Valley: Jayson & Brittnie Repeat – SEM & Rosemead Tops
By Bob Ramsey, on November 3rd, 2009 Local cross county teams move into the final phase of the season this week, with each of the local leagues holding their Championship Finals meets. These meets will determine league championships along with CIF qualifying spots – with the top three teams in most leagues and top four in 7-8 team leagues advancing to CIF prelims. Individuals on non-advancing teams who finish in the top six in their leagues will also qualify for CIF.
In early action on Saturday, the Bishop Amat girls clinched the Del Ray League championship with a second place finish on the flat three mile course at Santa Fe Dam. Junior Illiana Velasquez led the Lancers with 20:01 sixth place finish, and was joined at the top by senior Alexis Schuitema, 10th in 20:34. The young boys team, fourth on the day and for the season, were led by soph Julian Moran, 18th in 17:18. Complete meet results are here.
We head into the week with three teams strongly favored to advance at CIF and beyond. In Monday’s CIF-SS rankings, St. Lucy’s remains fifth in Div 3, while the Bonita girls somewhat inexplicably fell to 12th in D3. The Glendora boys remained 2nd in the very tightly packed Div. 2. By virtue of their high rankings over the past several weeks, all three teams will receive at-large entries into the post-season should they somehow fail to qualify through their leagues.
A list of finals sites, dates and favorites after the jump. Continue reading 2009 League Finals Week!
By Bob Ramsey, on October 28th, 2009 Mt. Sac is the standard for cross country in the Southern Section, and this past weekend two thirds of the local schools tested themselves against the course’s three huge hills and the intensity of the big meet atmosphere.
Glendora had the top team performance, with their 80:27 effort earning them a #2 CIF-SS Div 2 ranking in the polls released Monday. The Tartans had 4 of the top 6 local performers and 5 of the top 9. In a merge of all 21 local schools, the Tartans lead with only 22 points, meaning that if they had raced against the 7 best performers from all of the other ESGV schools, Glendora would win 22-33. Los Altos, led by soph Joshua Sanchez, also put in a strong performance team performance and showed a big upside.
Individually, Glendora’s Kelly Hernandez and Austin Mendoza led the locals with the only sub 16:00 performances, while Johnny Flores of South Hills had a big PR. The expeted showdown between ESGV’s top performers coming into the meet, South El Monte’s Jayson Perez and Glendora’s Anthony Castro and Austin Goodheart, didn’t materialize when they all underperformed to expectations, but they still ran relatively fast times.
The top performers and a merge of all the ESGV schools after the jump Continue reading Mt.Sac Boys Wrap-up: Kelly and the Tartans on Top
By Bob Ramsey, on October 28th, 2009 After weeks of competing in different places and running on different courses, all of the ESGV tops girls competed at the same place. Four runners, all from different schools, stood out with sub 19:00 performances. West Covina’s Jessica Mendez was top with a 18:36 effort, a big PR and better than the area’s best effort from last year. Joining Jessica were Bonita frosh Melissa Scott (18:45), Taylor Hebb (St. Lucy’s, 18:56) and heat winner Carly Lake (Charter Oak, 18:59)
St. Lucy’s and Bonita came into the meet ranked in the CIF-SS Div. 3, and both performed well and held their spots. They are ranked 5th and 8th, respectively, in this week’s polls.
Top Performers and a merge of all of the ESGV teams after the jump. Continue reading Mt.Sac Girls Wrap-Up: Jessica to the Front, St. Lucy’s and Bonita Hold Their Spots
By Bob Ramsey, on October 25th, 2009 Glendora continued their string of strong performances on the famous 2.91 mile course at Mt.Sac. The only local school competing in the prestigious Team Sweepstakes, the Tartans finished 13th overall, 3rd among Div. 2 schools, and tops among Southern Section D2 schools.
On a day when the Tartans usual top two runners ran relatively poorly, junior Kelly Hernandez stepped into the team lead with a 15:42 effort, followed closely by soph teammate Austin Mendoza at 15:49, sixth best among sophs in the entire meet.
In other local honors, Damien junior John Garcia‘s 16:37 earned him 10th place in his Div. 2 heat, and Div. 2 Los Altos, running in a Div 1 race because of a conflict with their school’s homecoming, finished fifth in their heat, led by soph Joshua Sanchez‘s 16:14.
In all, nine local teams ran on Saturday. Combined team results from a merge of those team, top performers, and other team leaders after the jump. Continue reading Mt.Sac Day 2-Boys: Glendora Top of Div 2, Kelly Steps Up
By Bob Ramsey, on October 25th, 2009 The Division 1 & 2 teams went to the line at Mt. Sac, and several came away with very strong performances. The top time of the day came from West Covina senior Jessica Mendez with 18:36, good for 10th in her Div. 1 heat. Glendora’s Lauren Justus (Jr) ran 19:01 for 9th in the fast Div. 2 heat, while Kristen Gomez (Rowland) was 10th in an earlier D2 heat in 19:34.
The top prize went to Charter Oak soph Carly Lake, winner her Div. 2 heat in a big PR 18:59, gaining the commerative cow bell that’s given to each race winner.
None of the local teams place in their heats, but West Covina came out on top of a merge of the results of eight local teams running on the day. Those team results, the top ten performers, and the other team leaders after the jump. Continue reading Mt.Sac Day 2-Girls: Jessica & West Covina Lead, Carly gets a Cow Bell
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SGV Track & XC This site is maintained by Bob Ramsey – a SGV T&F athlete (Arroyo ’80), and former coach at Glendora HS and Meet Director of the SGV Champs. Bob is currently Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Whittier College
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