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10/23-24/98 at Mt. San Antono College, Walnut CA

Mt. Sac Invitational
Doug Speck's Preview

Sweepstakes entries
Friday Girls: Div 4 - Div 5 - Div 3.  Friday Boys: Div 4 - Div 5  - Div 3
Saturday Division 1-2: Boys team - Boys Ind. - Girls ind. - Girls team

Doug Speck's Preview as of October 11

From: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 2:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mt. SAC preview

Mt. Sac Invitational - Friday, October 23rd - Saturday October 24th (Below on entry information through Sunday, October 11th— more schools should be added to below entry lists, there are always significant adds)

By Doug Speck

One of the highlights of the regular season nationally on the prep scene will take place in Walnut, California at the annual Mt. SAC Invitational High School Cross-Country Meet. A number of the finest Girl individual athletes in the nation, led by California’s 1997 Foot Locker Finalists— Sara Bei (Montgomery, Santa Rosa 10th nation 1997), Lauren Fleshman (Canyon, Canyon Country 14th 1997), Sara Gorton (Mountain Pointe, Phoenix, Az 18th), Trina Cox (Santa Rosa 24th), and Allyson Marquand (University, Irvine 28th), will be joined by surprising 1996 Foot Locker National third placer Abby Miller (Green Valley, Henderson, Nv), who is back hotter than a pistol this Fall! Yucaipa, the nation’s #11 ranked Girls squad headlines that half of the meet.

The Boys’ portion of the weekend will be highlighted by team action featuring two of the nation’s top six ranked squads, Santa Ana and Long Beach Poly, with Belmont (Los Angeles) also ranked among the top 25 at #20. Smaller schools, California sized Division III, IV, and V (1216 and below in enrollment for three grades male/female) will race on Friday, 10/23, with the Division I and II schools racing on Saturday. Sweepstakes races in each of the Division III, IV, and V school size divisions for Boys and Girls will close late afternoon Friday action, with Team and Individual Sweepstakes races starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday 10/24, featuring the top overall teams and strongest individuals.

Sara Bei leads stellar girls field

One has to take a deep breath to take in the quality of young ladies who will attend and race during the weekend. At this point the Team Sweepstakes event will feature Abby Miller and her Green Valley team, with the 1996 Foot Locker star racing 4:53 for 1600 meters the spring of her ninth grade year before falling ill to a variety of ailments during her tenth grade year. Miller dusted Allyson Marquand by 40 seconds at Dana Hills a couple of weeks back, racing a blazing 16:43 on a basically flat course where the last three quarters of a mile is a gradual downhill. Marquand, 4:55.43 and 10:43.35 in the distances last spring is dividing her time between soccer and cross-country this fall, and here will compete in the Individual Sweeps race. Sara Bei, also in the Individual Sweeps race on Saturday, was the state track double distance winner at 4:49.21 and 10:31.06, and has continued amazing improvement after her eighth place finish last year at Foot Locker that marked her as the nation’s top frosh athlete. She has romped over all competition this Fall, breaking her own course records by close to a minute in some cases, certainly indicating the ability to edge much closer to the top runners in the nation later this season. Lauren Fleshman (Canyon, Canyon Country Individual Sweeps 2nd State Div I CC 1997) is another who is undefeated this season, with comfortable Invitational wins by margins and with efforts showing there is still plenty in the tank for the 10:38.65 3200m star. Arizonan Sara Gorton was 18th last year at the FL Finals, with a fine spring that had her record 4:55.17 and 10:33.11 distance marks. Gorton has shown superiority to this year’s Arizona group, with competition here in the Individual Sweeps race. Santa Rosa’s Trina Cox (defending State Div I Champ) has followed in Julia Stamp’s footsteps for Coach Doug Courtemarche of Santa Rosa HS, with a big win against some of the nation’s best in Alabama’s Vulcan Classic to back up a good 1998 spring track season which had her race 10:33.75 for 3200 meters. Mission San Jose’s Katie Hotchkiss is one of the nation’s top middle distance runners, with 2:09.77 (800m) and 4:49.77 (1600m) bests and the defending State Division II Cross-Country champ. Courtney Baird (Helix, La Mesa 3rd State Div II CC 1997) is very, very hot this season out of the San Diego area, racing under 17:00 for a flat 3 at the Woodbridge Invitational. This will probably be the best “in-season” gathering of Girl runners anywhere in the nation this Fall. Latesha Jones (Rialto 9th St Div I CC 97) and Heather Shurtleff (West Hills, Santee 9th St Div II CC 97) will be in the Individual Sweeps race also.

Girls Teams

Team-wise, Yucaipa, last year’s co-nationally #1 ranked squad, is strong again this year, ranked eleventh currently by Harrier magazine, with Green Valley of Henderson and Abby Miller currently ranked twenty-third in the country. Yucaipa handled Green Valley 91:53 to 93:37 at the recent Dana Hills Invitational. Other squads ranked statewide in California at the Division I and II level who will join those teams in the Sweeps event are Nevada Union (Grass Valley 5th Div I), Ayala (Chino Hills 6th Div I), Santa Rosa (8th Div I), Peninsula (Rolling Hills 9th Div I), Clovis West (Fresno 10th Div I), Santa Margarita (Rancho SM 1st Div II), Woodbridge (Irvine 2nd Div II), Newport Harbor (Newport Beach 4th Div II), and Brea Olinda (6th Div II). University of San Francisco, three-time defending State Division V champions (at 299 students) will move up to face the bigger schools on Saturday, with Coach Mike McManus’s group certainly one of the nation’s strongest “under-500 student” squads.

Boys Teams

Boys’ action will center around strong teams, with the State’s top nine ranked Division I (large school) squads entered. Santa Ana (ranked third in the country currently) has a veteran group that has marked “team-time” victories over defending State Division I Champs Long Beach Poly at the Laguna Hills Invitational and the Woodbridge meet. Poly (sixth nationally) has had strong frosh Bryan Durham and Oscar Mendez develop into fine varsity runners to offset Santa Ana’s very strong and solid senior pack, led by Alfonso Leon and Juan Salgado, among the top dozen finishers in the State Meet. This will be the first “Varsity to Varsity” meeting of the two teams this Fall, with Santa Ana winning the team-time contest at Laguna Hills and Woodbridge against Poly when athletes ran in “by-grade” contests. Yucaipa raced magnificently in its own Invitational two weeks ago, with Saugus able to run with any of the top three teams on paper. The above mentioned four teams (Poly- Santa Ana-Yucaipa-Saugus) fill out the top four spots in California Division I rankings. Don Lugo (Chino 5th), Belmont (LA 6th), Nevada Union (Grass Valley 7th), Dana Hills (Dana Point 8th), and Murrieta Valley (9th) are the other top ten ranked teams in California Division I who will be in the Saturday Boys’ Team Sweeps race. Division II squads ranked in California’s top ten are Newport Harbor (Newport Beach-2nd) and Eureka (4th). Nevada Union’s Mike Gregg was 6th in State Div I last year with a 9:24.86 from track over 3200m.

Saturday Boys Individual Sweeps

Saturday’s Boys Individual Sweeps race will have a good group. Ventura’s Josh Spiker was 9:18.23 last year for 3200m as a soph, with a fine Fall harrier season. Justin Willingham (Beyer, Modesto) was State Division III champ last year for East Union of Manteca in the Fall, and had a 4:13.3 1600m best in the spring as one of the nation’s top 1600 runners. James DeBruhl (Chino) has run a number of strong races this season, with a 4:15.07 from last spring’s track season. Serra (San Diego) had Marcus Chandler (6th St Div II CC 97) win his division at the Stanford Invite, with 4:15.86 and 9:22.92 track credentials. Steve Laurie (Mara Carillo, Santa Rosa) was 4:21.20 last spring, with Jose Herrera (Loara, Anaheim 9th St Div II CC 97) 9:13.19, and Augie Escobar (Villa Park) strong at the front of major invitationals this Fall.

Friday action

Friday’s action will feature many of the State’s best smaller schools. The Boys of Bosco Tech (Rosemead) are ranked #1 statewide at Division III, with #2 ranked Redwood (Larkspur) coming south to challenge the Southern Section power. La Jolla (5th) and San Luis Obispo (9th) are also in Friday’s Division III sweeps race.

Interesting match-ups in Division IV

Division IV marks one of the more interesting match-ups of recent years, with Riverbank quite surprising with its improvement since last year, ranked #1 statewide, with perenniel power Nordhoff (Ojai) ranked close behind them. Riverbank has romped over every field they have been a part of this Fall, with team leader Victor Flores the winner in at least five Invitationals thus far this season. Flores (mono) and the rest of the time had a variety of ailments at the end of the 1997 season where they finished dead last in the state meet after winning the Sac Joaquin Section, with Nordhoff a good group notorious for amazing peaks at the end of the season—they amazingly went 1-2-3 as a part of their 46 point total in winning another State title last Fall. The contest here should be a good warm-up to the State meet. Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks), ranked #3 statewide, Estancia (8th), and La Salle (10th) are others ranked high who will be in the race. Riverbank’s Flores, Kevin Lelles (Notre Dame), and Mark Nevers of Oak Park were the first three in this race among finishers in early October’s Stanford Invitational Division IV contest.

CA Top-ranked Maranatha heads Division V race

The Boys’ Division V race has the State’s top ranked squad in Maranatha (Sierra Madre), #3 University (San Francisco), #4 Desert Christian (Lancaster), #5 Flintridge Prep (La Canada), #6 L.A. Baptist (North Hills), #7 Woodcrest Christian (Riverside), #9 Crossroads (Santa Monica), and #10 Poly (Pasadena). Jeff Tomlinson (Crossroads 3rd St Div V CC 1997), who ran a fine 9:22.12 last year in track for 3200m, was the top Division V finisher at the Stanford Invite.

Lompoc-Newbury Park on Friday

The Girls Division III Friday Sweeps will have #3 ranked in state Lompoc battling #6 Newbury Park. Corona del Mar (Newport Beach) and St. Joseph (Santa Maria) are two very fine Division IV squads, ranked one and two, respectively, there. Their first match-up this season here should be a great one at that level’s Sweeps event. Corona del Mar scored 48 points to win the Division IV race at Stanford, with St. Joseph the same type of dominance in other Invitationals. The two squads could total under 100:00 for five scorers here, with 20:00 per scorer at this level very impressive!

Invader from New York

Louisville (Woodland Hills #3), Nordhoff (Ojai #6), and Malibu (#10) are others ranked currently at the State Level Division IV. Tri-Valley (Grahamsville, New York), who blew in a couple of years back led by Kate Landau, and recorded the fastest team time of the entire weekend, will be out to run Division V one again. Desert Christian (Lancaster #2 ranked statewide), Chadwick (Palos Verdes #3), LA Baptist (North Hills #5), and Flintridge Prep (La Canada #6) will represent California at the Division V level. Angela Petersen (Francis Parker, San Diego) was a fine 5:02.64 and 10:58.67 in the distances last spring after a runner-up effort in State at this level in Cross-Country.

Sweepstakes Entries

From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 12:51 PM

Following are the make-up of the Sweepstakes events at Mt. SAC for their Invitational 10/23-10/24 (again, still time for changes)

HIGH SCHOOL
DIVISION 3, 4 & 5
SWEEPSTAKES RACES
Friday; October 23, 1998

RACE #24 - 4:40 pm
Division 4 - Blue - Girls stakes
Corona Del Mar (Newport Beach)
Exeter
Flintridge Sacred Heart (La Canada)
Holtville
Hughson
La Reina (Thousand Oaks)
La Salle (Pasadena)
Louisville (Woodland Hills)
Malibu
Nordhoff (Ojai)
Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks)
Oak Park
Orange Lutheran
Paraclete (Lancaster)
St. Joseph (Santa Maria)
Tuba City
Twentynine Palms
Yucca Valley

RACE #25 - 4:55 pm
Division 5 - Green - Girls Sweepstakes
Boron
Campbell Hall (North Hollywood)
Chadwick (Palos Verdes)
Crossroads (Santa Monica)
Desert Christian (Lancaster)
Flintridge Prep (La Canada)
Francis Parker (San Diego)
L.A. Baptist (North Hills)
Linfield Christian (Riverside)
Maranatha (Sierra Madre)
Ontario Christian
Poly (Pasadena)
Santa Clara (Oxnard)
Tri-Valley (Grahamsville, NY)

RACE #26 - 5:1 0 pm
Division 3 - Red Girls Sweepstakes
Carondelet (Concord)
Central Union
Del Mar (San Jose)
East Union (Manteca)
Garden Grove
Gunn (Palo Alto)
Kearney (San Diego)
La Jolla
Lompoc
Los Altos
Los Banos
Los Gatos
Mills (Millbrae)
Newbury Park
Ocean View (Huntington Beach)
San Luis Obispo
Santiago (Corona)
South Pasadena
St. Francis (Sacramento)
University of San Diego
West Valley (Cottonwood)
Yosemite (Oakhurst)

RACE #27 - 5:25 pm
Division 4 - Yellow - Boys Sweepstakes
Central Valley
Chaminade (Canoga Park)
Corona Del Mar (Newport Beach)
Costa Mesa
Estancia (Costa Mesa)
Exeter
Fillmore
Holtville
La Salle (Pasadena)
Laguna Beach
McFarland
Nordhoff (Ojai)
Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks)
Oak Park
Orange Lutheran
Paraciete (Lancaster)
Riverbank
Salesian (L.A.)
San Marino
St. Francis (La Canada)
St. Joseph (Santa Maria)
Tuba City
Yucca Valley

RACE #28 - 5:40 pm
Division 5 - Blue - Boys Sweepstakes
Calvin Christian (Escondido)
Crossroads (Santa Monica)
Desert Christian (Lancaster)
Flintridge Prep (La Canada)
L.A. Baptist (North Hills)
Maranatha (Sierra Madre)
Poly (Pasadena)
Santa Clara (Oxnard)
Sherman Indian (Riverside)
University (SF)
Woodcrest Christian (Riverside)

RACE #29 - 5:55 pm
Division 3 - Green - Boys Sweepstakes
Don Bosco Tech (Rosemead)
Hollywood
La Habra
La Jolla
La Puente
Lompoc
Los Altos
Newbury Park
Pioneer (Whittier)
Redwood (Larkspur)
San Luis Obispo
Sonora

HIGH SCHOOL
DIVISION I & 2
SWEEPSTAKES RACES
Saturday; October 24, 1998

RACE #47 - 9:30 am
Division 1 & 2 - Yellow - Boys Team Sweepstakes
Ayala (Chino Hills)
Bellarmine Prep (San Jose)
Belmont (L.A.)
Clovis
Dana Hills (Dana Point)
De La Salle (Concord)
Don Lugo (Chino)
Eureka
Murrieta Valley
Nevada Union (Grass Valley)
Newport Harbor (Newport Beach)
Poly (Long Beach)
Santa Ana
Santa Ana Valley
Saugus
Yucaipa

RACE #48 - 9:50 am
Division i & 2 - Blue - Boys Individual Sweepstakes
Aliso Niguel (Aliso Viejo)
Beyer (Modesto)
Bonita Vista (Chula Vista)
Chino
Crescenta Valley (La Crescenta)
Lakewood
Mission San Jose (Fremont)
Moreno Valley
Righetti (Santa Maria)
Santa Maria
Temecula Valley
Van Nuys
Ventura
Damien (La Verne)
Loara (Anaheim)
Maria Carillo (Santa Rosa)
Serrra (San Diego)
Villa Park
Whittier

RACE #49 - 10:10 am
Division 1 & 2 - Green - Girls Individual Sweepstakes
Canyon (Canyon Country)
Clayton Valley (Concord)
Escondido
Hilltop (Chula Vista)
Hoover (Glendale)
Irvington (Fremont)
Lowell (San Francisco)
Maria Carillo (Santa Maria)
Montgomery (Santa Rosa)
Mountain Pointe (Phoenix, AZ)
North Hollywood
Rialto
Royal (Simi Valley)
San Pedro
Serrra (San Diego)
St. Joseph (Lakewood)
Sultana (Hesperia)
University (Irvine)
West Hills (Santee)