Maybe being rested isn’t worth all that much. Damien, winners of the first Sierra League Meet, had not raced since, and South Hills had been off for eleven days. On the other hand, Claremont raced Saturday at the Clovis invite, as had Sierra power Ayala. Curiously, it was Ayala and the Wolfpack that stepped forward today at Bonelli, while the Spartans and Huskies slipped up a bit.
As in the first meet, Ayala were clear winners of the girls race, improving their team time by 44 seconds. But this week on the 3-mile Invite course at Bonelli Park, the young Claremont girls (60 pts) pushed past South Hills (61 pts) to take the second spot by just one point, with the Wolfpack improving by 77 seconds. CHS was led by a 6, 7 finish from sophs Megan Renken (19:47) and Merin Arft (19:48) and a nice step up by junior Allison Spivack 10th/19:59 – 68 seconds faster than the first meet. But the real difference was South Hills slipping up. The Huskies were strong up front, with senior Alex Borunda 2nd/19:30, frosh Danielle Murrietta 3rd/19:31 and junior Carly Sargent 5th/19:43, but their usual #3 runner, 7th in the first meet, had a rough day and finished 24th, and their #5 DNF’d. Claremont put six below South Hills’ #4 for the decisive margin.
St. Lucy’s slipped a spot, finishing 5th despite improving by 2:31. Frosh Katelyn Breitschwerdt 12th/20:20 was again best for the Regents. Charter Oak was sixth, led by senior Julia Galvez 21st/21:07.
CIF-SS Div. III #4 Damien has to be disappointed with today’s result, but they did improve by 35 seconds from Meet #1. The real difference was Div. II #8 Ayala’s 81:18 effort – a 2:00 improvement. Senior Tom Ebiner led the Spartans again, with another solid win in 15:52. In meet #1, the Spartans followed with a 2, 5 placing, but this time the next two slipped a bit with Doug Negrete 3rd/16:10 and Conor Brandt 8th/16:19, but again, the difference was Ayala, who put four in the top six today as opposed to only two in the first ten last time.
South Hills was third again, with more points but a clear gap to fourth placed Chino Hills, whom they beat on the better sixth man the first time. The Huskies improved by 40 seconds and were led by junior Jason Diaz 9th/16:19, a nice step up from Meet #1. Junior Jimmy Basekins 8th/16:17 in this tightly bunched race was again the leader for fifth placed Claremont. Charter Oak were again sixth in this tough league.
Full Results from Finished Results are here.
And once again, here’s video coverage from Tom Kiss of the SGV Trib Group
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