SGV One on One: SGV Girls Fast Among the Few

The SGV One on One Challenge – the first race of the year on the full Mt.SAC course, was postponed to Saturday after rain on the course the previous week.  The delay led to a considerably diminished field (about 14 schools), with many teams opting not to run the week before the Mt.SAC Invite, or sending only their non-Varsity athletes.

The Arcadia and Bonita girls made a different choice, both showing up with full-strength teams.  The Bearcats were especially impressive, with a 97:01 team effort led by Marissa Scott, 3rd overall at 18:24.  Soph Veronica Yamane 2nd/18:08 was strong upfront for Arcadia for a 97:29 team time while missing one of their recent top 5, but a 1:00 gap between 3 and 4 could hurt the Apaches in bigger races.

There were several notable Mt.SAC debut performances by SGV frosh.  Walnut’s Anahi Betart was 4th/18:44 and Rachel Shapiro 14th/19:33, Bonita’s Kailyn Scott 5th/19:02, and Azusa’s Roxanne Valle, in what was apparently her first ever only her second XC race, won the 9th grade race and was 22nd/19:50.  On the boys side, Glendora frosh Jeff Kirwin won the #3 Varsity race and was 10th overall at 16:30.

In the boys races, none of the ranked SGV teams ran at full strength and the only sub-16:00 performance came from Diamond Bar senior James McCreary, who was 3rd overall at 15:59.

Full Results by Race (pdf’s) are here.

SGV Top Performers after the jump.

SGV Girls Sub 19:00

1. 18:08  Veronica Yamane – So, Arcadia – 2nd Overall
2. 18:24  Marissa Scott – Jr, Bonita – 3rd
3. 18:44  Anahi Betart – Fr, Walnut – 4th
4. 19:02  Kailyn Scott – Fr, Bonita – = 5th
5. 19:11  Alejandra Quintero, Sr, Arcadia – 8th
6. 19:17  Glindyll Mancia, Jr, Arcadia – 9th
7. 19:28  Sarah Yoho – So, Flintridge Prep – 12th
8. 19:31  Ashli Baddorf – Sr, Covina – 13th
9. 19:33  Rachel Shapiro – Fr, Walnut – 14th
10. 19:41  Diana Garcia – So, Bonita – = 16th
11. 19:44  Mackenzie Landa – So, Bonita – 19th
12. 19:50  Roxanne Valle – Fr, Azusa – 22nd
13. 19:50  Evan Gancedo – So, Pasadena Poly – 22nd
14. 19:55  Kate Evans – So, Flintridge Prep – 24th
15. 19:59  Cindy Ngo – Jr, Arroyo – 25th

SGV Boys

1. 15:59  James McCreary – Sr, Diamond Bar – 3rd Overall
2. 16:10  Colin Peterson – Sr, St. Francis – 5th
3. 16:20  Michael Caughron – Pasadena Poly – 8th
4. 16:26  Kevin Mejia – Jr, Covina – 9th
5. 16:30  Jeff Kirwin – Fr, Glendora – =10th
6. 16:30  Chris Maldonado – Sr, Covina – =10th
7. 16:31  Paul Hurley – Sr, Claremont – 12th
8. 16:33  Daniel Harrigan-Cota, Sr, Walnut – 13th
9. 16:35  Damon Payne – So, Glendora – 14th
10. 16:39  Ernie Castro – Jr, Azusa – 16th