The tough Sierra League, featuring area teams Diamond Bar, Damien/St. Lucy’s, and Glendora, began league competition on Tuesday, racing on the 5k course at Bonelli Park in San Dimas. The Tartan boys ran very strongly to win, placing four in the top five and six in the first eleven. St. Lucy’s, running without two top runners, was second to CIF Div II ranked Ayala.
Junior Anthony Castro and senior Austin Goodheart led Glendora on a day in which all seven runners PR’d. The Tartans broke the course record with a time (runners 1-5) of 81:47. The previous best was 81:56 by Ayala ’06. Up and coming Diamond Bar, led by soph James McCreary’s 6th place, narrowly missed finishing 3rd by 6 points. The Brahmas were missing their usual tight grouping among their first three runners, and that was the difference. Damien fielded a very young team, and were led by junior John Garcia, who is still looking to regain the strong form he showed last year.
On the girls side, top runners Melissa Horton, and Kristyn Hebb of St. Lucy’s and Lauren Justus of Glendora sat out with injuries and/or illness. Junior Taylor Hebb led the Monarchs Regents (oops) with a strong second place finish, and her team did well to hold off a resurgent Chino Hills. Diamond Bar was a distant fourth, but frosh Kelly Kuo‘s 13th was a bright spot, as was junior Allison Mayo‘s big PR for 15th for the Tartans.
Top Area Performers
Girls:Â 2. St. Lucy’s 52, 4. Diamond Bar 125, 6. Glendora 145
- 19:08 Taylor Hebb JR-St. Lucy’s 2nd overall
- 19:59 Katy Hebb SO-St. Lucy’s 7th
- 20:24 Emily Bruce JR-St. Lucy’s 10th
- 20:43 Kelly Kuo FR-Diamond Bar 13th
- 20:48 Mariah Reyes SO-St. Lucy’s 14th
- 20:48 Allison Mayo JR-Glendora 15th
- 21:18 Danica Ceballos St. Lucy’s 19th
Boys:Â 1. Glendora 22, 4. Diamond Bar 88, 5. Damien 128
- 16:02 Anthony Castro JR-Glendora 1st overall
- 16:15 Austin Goodheart SR-Glendora 2nd
- 16:20 Austin Mendoza SO-Glendora 4th
- 16:23 Kelly Hernandez JR-Glendora 5th
- 16:30 James McCreary SO-Diamond Bar 6th
- 16:47 Neill Netzeband SR-Glendora 10th
- 16:48 Shin Yamamura JR-Glendora 11th
Complete results: sierra-1-boys-var-09.pdf  and sierra-1-girls-var-09.pdf
Results plus photos here.
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