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The Cerritos
College men's track team did exactly what they
needed to do in order to hold off host Moorpark
College in a four-way meet hosted by the Raiders on
Saturday. The Falcons held a slim margin prior to
the final event of the day - the 1600-meter relay
race. On the strength of their third place finish
time of 3:20.46, Cerritos scored six team points,
while Moorpark came in fourth place, good for five
team points. The final tally of the meet had the
Falcons pulling out a 177-176.5 team score victory
over the Raiders, while they also defeated West Los
Angeles College (177-136.5) and El Camino College,
177-130. Cerritos will now host the California
Relays this weekend, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday
and concluding on Saturday.
Sophomore
Kelsey
Caesar (Klein Forest (TX) HS/Cal
State Long Beach) helped the cause, winning
both the 100 meters (10.84) and 200 meters (21.64),
as the Falcons captured five events on the day.
Freshman
Tavoy Moore
(Gahr HS) ran very well, placing third in
the 100 meters in 11.13. Freshman
Torion
Bailey (Mayfair HS) also won
two events, the 400 meters in 48.76 and the 800
meters, with a time of 2:01.80.
In the throwing
events, sophomore
David
Thomas (Cerritos HS) won the
javelin, with sophomore
Nicholas Armstrong (Long Beach Poly
HS) placing third, while Armstrong finished
second in the high jump (6' 6") and Thomas coming in
third in the pole vault at 11' 6". In the discus,
freshman
Jeramey
Cutler (Lakewood HS) came in
second place, with freshman
Eric
Roberson (Long Beach Poly HS)
finishing in fourth in the shot put.
Sophomore
Bruce
McCall (Norwalk HS) also had a
good day, with a second place finish in the triple
jump, as well as the 110-meter HH (15.66) and
400-meter IH in 56.70. Sophomore
Geovanni
Popoca (Valencia HS)
finished the 5000 meters in a time of 16:03.32, good
for second place.
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