CIF Prelims: 37 Teams Move On – 16 All-Time Marks

Eighteen boys teams and nineteen San Gabriel Valley cross country girls teams have advanced to Saturday’s CIF-SS Divisional Finals, while SGV athletes recorded 16 All-Time Top 50 times on The Riverside Cross Country Course last Friday and Saturday.

The boys and girls from Covina. Both teams advanced to CIF Finals for the fifth year in a row!

This year’s total was just below the forty-three that moved on the Finals last year, the highest total since the Final field was expanded (temporarily – one hopes) to 24 in 2016. The SGV’s biggest total when sixteen teams made the finals of the CIF-SS’s five divisions was twenty-three in 2010

Ramona Convent in Div. 5 and San Dimas in Div. 4 and Nogales in Div. 3 all qualified for the girls Final for the first time. There are no first timers among the boys, but South Hills (Div. 3) made their first final since 2009 and St. Francis (Div. 4) their first since 2010.

In an analysis of the past ten years, 31 of the SGV’s 71 boys teams have made at least one Final. Arcadia and Flintridge Prep have advanced in every one in those ten years, followed by California with nine, and Claremont, Poly and Webb with eight.

In that same time, 30 of the SGV’s 75 girls teams advanced to the country’s strongest sectional meet.  Bonita, Flintridge Prep and Mayfield have been 10 for 10 over this time, followed by Claremont and Poly at 9, and Arcadia with 8.

The Southern Section has been racing at The Riverside Cross Country Course since 2015, and has used it for CIF finals since 2016. Most of the top teams ran controlled races in the Prelims (with the exception of Div. 1 boys), so we can expect many more additions in the Finals.

After the jump, a list the Top 21 SGV performances for the the boys and the girls, with notes on their All-Time status, (you can view the complete A-T lists here) plus a ranking of all the teams by time. 

SGV Boys Best 21 – 2018 CIF Prelims

Athletes in Bold will be competing in the Final

1. 15:14 - Jacob Hsu – Jr, Arcadia  =13th All-Time SGV
2. 15:19 - Angel Salinas – Sr, California  =17th
3. 15:20 - Noah Hibbard – Sr, Arroyo  (PR 15:19 =17th)
4. 15:24 - Ethan Ruiz – Jr, California  =26th
5. 15:24 - Tianyuan Pei – So, Arcadia  =26th
6. 15:27 - Marco Perez – Sr, La Serna  (PR 15:24 =17th)
7. 15:29 - Gerald Baltzer – Jr, La Serna =32nd
8. 15:31 - Jesse Montez – Sr, La Serna  =35th
9. 15:33 - Owen Serricchio – Sr, La Cañada  38th
10. 15:33 - Osvaldo Cervantes – Sr, Nogales  (PR 15:19 =17th)
11. 15:34 - Aiden Arredondo – Jr, La Serna  =39th
12. 15:35 - Jack Martinez – Jr, California  =41st
13. 15:36 - Devin Hightower – Sr, South Hills  43rd
14. 15:41 - Joshua Orellana – Jr, Arroyo  =50th
15. 15:41 - Andres Espinoza – Sr, California  =50th
16. 15:42 - Daniel Hernandez – Sr, Covina
17. 15:44 - Andrew Hernandez – Sr, La Serna  (PR 15:35 =41st)
18. 15:45 - Lukas Amare- Jr, Diamond Bar
19. 15:49 - Jack Ruan – Sr, Arcadia  (PR 15:23 =23rd)
20. 15:52 - Eduardo De Paz – Jr, Baldwin Park  (PR 15:39 =48th)
21. 15:53 - James Leon – Jr, Bishop Amat

SGV Boys Team Ranking

Teams in Bold advanced to Finals

1. La Serna – 77:47
2. California – 77:54
3. Arcadia – 78:18
4. Arroyo – 79:49
5. Claremont – 80:04
6. Pioneer– 81:51
7. Rowland – 82:28
8. Walnut - 83:03
9. Bonita – 83:05
10. Whittier – 83:14
11. South Hills – 83:19
12. South Pasadena – 83:26
13. Covina – 83:43
14. Bishop Amat – 84:45
15. La Cañada – 85:20
16. Los Altos – 85:36
17. Diamond Bar- 85:37
18. Azusa – 85:48
19. St. Francis – 86:05
20. La Mirada – 86:55
21. Flintridge Prep – 86:56
22. Rosemead – 86:58
23. Don Bosco- 87:21
24. Maranatha – 88:02
25. Baldwin Park – 88:02
26. Temple City – 88:04
27. El Monte – 88:35
28. Montebello – 88:48
29. Gabrielino- 89:07
30. Webb – 89:25
31. Schurr – 89:55
32. Nogales – 90:22
33. Bassett – 90:25
34. Bell Gardens – 92:36
35. Sierra Vista – 93:38
36. Garey – 95:10
37. Southlands Christian- 96:35

SGV Girls Best 21 – 2018 CIF Prelims

Athletes in Bold will be competing in the Final

1. 17:19 - Chloe Arriaga – Sr, Walnut  (PR 16:43 is 1st All-Time SGV)
2. 17:38 - Emma Arriaga – Sr, Walnut  (PR 17:10  3rd)
3. 17:57 - Joyce Wu – Sr, Arcadia  (PR 17:41 =10th)
4. 18:08 - Amanda Ghibaudo – Jr, Walnut  =26th
5. 18:15 - Audrey Suarez – So, Mayfield  (PR 17:34 =7th)
6. 18:20 – Katie Bautista – Sr, Santa Fe  =32nd
7. 18:24 - Maddie Coles – Fr, Claremont  38th
8. 18:24 - Azalea Segura Mora, Jr, Claremont  (PR 17:50 16th)
9. 18:34 – Halley Allen - Sr, Flintridge Prep  (PR 18:19  31st)
10. 18:34 - Ellaney Matarese – So, La Cañada  =46th
11. 18:35 - Anastasia Sloan – So, Walnut  (PR 18:20 =32nd)
12. 18:40 - Sydney Morrow – Fr, South Pasadena
13. 18:42 - Sarah Authur - Jr, La Cañada  (PR 18:21 =36th)
14. 18:48 - Lily Miller – So, Webb
15. 18:51 - Lorelei Claxton – Jr, Bonita
16. 18:53 - Lauren Nettels – Jr, Flintridge Sacred Heart
17. 18:53 - Serena Duenas- Sr, Alhambra
18. 18:53 - Milo Santiago – Jr, Walnut
19. 18:54 - Alayna Peters – Jr, Monrovia
20. 18:55 - Melanie Mach – Sr, Rosemead
21. 18:56 - Zoe Gurule- Sr, California

SGV Girls Team Rankings

Teams in Bold advanced to Finals

1. Walnut – 90:34
2. Claremont – 93:55
3. Mayfield – 96:24
4. Arcadia- 96:27
5. California- 96;33
6. South Pasadena – 97:01
7. La Serna- 97:54
8. Flintridge Sacred Heart – 98:34
9. Flintridge Prep – 98:56
10. Bishop Amat – 99:12
11. Santa Fe- 99:33
12. La Cañada – 99:55
13. Arroyo – 100:53
14. Rosemead – 101:02
15. Bonita – 101:03
16. Alhambra- 101:20
17. Covina – 101:37
18. Diamond Bar- 103:16
19. San Dimas – 104:27
20. South El Monte- 104:41
21. San Marino- 104:43
22. La Mirada – 104:51
23. Rowland- 105:56
24. Bell Gardens- 107:30
25. Schurr- 108:25
26. Gabrielino- 109:03
27. Poly – 109:15
28. South Hills- 109:33
29. Webb – 110:23
30. West Covina- 110:44
31. Nogales – 111:04
32. Gladstone- 112:27
33. Bassett- 112:43
34. Ramona Convent – 114:07
35. Sierra Vista - 116:28
36. Edgewood – 116:54
37. Alverno – 119:18
38. La Salle- 125:09