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    When the South Coast Conference men’s and women’s cross country championships were postponed two weeks ago due to the poor air quality from the fires, it was decided that those conferences that weren’t able to run, would send everyone to the Southern California Championships, which were moved to Mt. San Antonio College and run on Saturday. After completing the race, the times would not only comprise the respective conference championship results but also the Southern California Championship results. It also meant that there would be a great many more runners at the event.

    For the Cerritos College team, they were unable to qualify for the State Championships as a team after coming in fifth place in the SCC Finals and 19^th in the Southern California Championships. The team’s lone representative heading to Fresno for the November 17 event is sophomore Daniel Clifford-Sorenson (Lakewood HS).

    His time over the four-mile course was clocked at 22:34, which not only placed him 10^th in the conference championships, but 53^rd out of the 221 runners in the meet. He was the only Falcon to finish in the top 100 runners, with sophomore Jonathan Dillard (Lakewood HS) placing 21^st in the SCC finals at 23:31, which resulted in an 100^th place finish overall. He was followed closely by freshman Erick Ordonez (Loara HS), with a time of 23:34, good for 23^rd in the SCC and 106^th in the SoCal Championships.

    The Falcons had large gaps in their finishers, which explained their low finish in both meets. Sophomore Casey McCombs (Long Beach Wilson HS) completed his final meet for Cerritos with a time of 23:46, which netted him a 27^th place in the SCC Finals and 116^th place in the SoCal Finals. Rounding out the squad were freshman Geovanni Popoca (Valencia HS; 24:10, 31^st in SCC; 132^nd SoCal), freshman Armando Pina (Kennedy HS; 24:37, 34^th SCC, 149^th SoCal) and sophomore Joseph Aranda (Norwalk HS, 24:45, 35^th SCC, 152^nd SoCal.

    Mt. San Antonio College won the SCC championship with 41 teams points and placed sixth in the Southern California Championships, while El Camino College finished second in the SCC championships with 47 team points and ninth in the Southern California Champions. Also finishing ahead of the Falcons were East Los Angeles College (3^rd in SCC and 12^th SoCal) and Long Beach City College (4^th in SCC and 17^th in SoCal).

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