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For the third time
in the last five years, the Cerritos College women's
cross country team captured the South Coast
Conference championship. With their tremendous
performance on Friday at Columbia Park in Torrance,
the Falcons will now compete in the Southern
California Championship, which will be held in
Bakersfield next Saturday.
The Falcons
withstood a 1-2 performance from a pair of Mt. San
Antonio College runners and claimed five of the top
10 competitors to record 31 team points, while the
Mounties came in second place with 42 team points.
Entering the meet, Cerritos was ranked #4 in the
state and Mt. SAC sixth.
Sophomore
Shannon
Simpson (Fountain Valley HS)
placed third over the 3.1-mile course in a time of
19:13 and trailed only Christine Cortez (18:25) and
Lenore Moreno (18:55) of Mt. SAC. Cerritos excelled
in bunching their runners and had strong finishes
from their top runners to claim the title.
Sophomores
Sarah Muniz
(Santa Fe HS) and
Robyn
Guggiana (Warren HS/Cal State Long
Beach) finished seventh (19:31) and eighth
(19:39), respectively, while freshman
Allison
Garcia (Sunny Hills HS) turned
in her best time of the year with a 19:48 clocking,
which earned her ninth place overall. Sophomore
Lucy Beuster (Kennedy HS)
closed out the team scoring with a 10th place
showing in 19:50.
Although the team
score and championship had been decided, the Falcons
also received a great performance from freshman
Daisy Perez (Bell Gardens HS),
as she was clocked in 19:57, good for 13th out of
the 55 runners. Six more Cerritos runners competed,
including sophomore
Alison
Bartosch (Squalicum (WA) HS/Whatcom
(WA) CC; 15th place, 20:06), freshman
Erica
Sandoval (La Mirada HS; 23rd
place; 21:10), freshman
Selena
Gallegos (Santa Fe HS; 27th
place, 21:51), freshman
Brianna Crum
(Kennedy HS; 30th place, 22:17), freshman
Misheal Jacho (Warren HS; 49th place,
25:19) and freshman
Nadia
Jurado (Long Beach Wilson HS;
52nd place, 26:47).
For their efforts,
the top six Cerritos runners earned All-South Coast
Conference recognition.
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