The nation's largest cross-country party!!!
*** Combined DyeStat/DyeStatCal on-site coverage ***
John Dye, Rich Gonzalez, Doug Speck and Mike Kennedy
joined by photographers Kirby Lee, Bill Leung and Erik Pedersen

Bill Leung's collage captures the weekend's highlight: the Boys Individual Sweepstakes,
which netted eight individuals under 15 minutes on the revered Mt. SAC layout.

How did Saturday's race action play out? Read our Sweepstakes Race recaps!

This year's "most hurried harriers"
on the nation's most famous course!

Photo courtesy of Erik Pedersen
Don Lugo affirmed its #12 national ranking with a 47-point (and 48-second) win over
#22-ranked Royal in the Team Sweepstakes Race. That's close, given 19 fine teams were entered!


Photo courtesy of Dave Casper
Using a fine close by it's top two runners in the final mile, #11-ranked
Murrieta Valley (center) rallied to top #13-ranked Reno of Nevada in the
Team Sweepstakes Race! Sultana, ranked #20 in the U.S., claimed third.

Matusak's Junior Class Record: 14:33 !!!
Loyola 11th-grader leads eight runners sub-15:00 in Boys Individual Sweepstakes!

Photo courtesy of Erik Pedersen
Loyola's Mark Matusak and Duarte's Mohamed Trafeh battle atop Poop-Out Hill.
Matusak pulled away from Trafeh at the summit of Reservoir Hill for the win.

Photo courtesy of Erik Pedersen
Jesuit senior John Wihtol leads the charge up Poop-Out Hill. Wihtol beat all those pictured here, including
Covina's Andrew Tachias, Temceula Valley's Bret Campfield, Arroyo's Luis Medina and Logan's Yosef Ghebray.

And for those stats freaks among us...

  
Boys Team Sweepstakes Pics/Results      Boys Individual Sweepstakes Pics/Results

    
Girls Individual Sweepstakes Pics/Results      Girls Team Sweepstakes Pics/Results    

BOYS BEST TEAM TIMES - FRIDAY
1. Page, AZ. 80:56 (D3 Sweeps runner-up)
2. Campolindo 81:18 (D3 Sweeps winner)
3. Diamond Ranch 82:01
4. North Monterey County 82:16
5. San Luis Obispo 82:27
6. Cabrillo-Lom 82:44
7. San Lorenzo Valley 83:07 (D4 Sweeps runner-up)
8. McFarland 83:19 (D4 Sweeps winner)
9. Santa Clara 83:52 (D5 Sweepstakes winner)
10. Servite 83:57
11. Burrough-Ridge 84:20
12. South Hills 84:35

GIRLS HONOR ROLL - SATURDAY
1. Rachel Bryan (Laguna Creek) 17:14
2. Collier Lawrence (Reno, NV) 17:32
3. Marie Lawrence (Reno, NV) 17:33
4. Tia Ferguson (Seabury Hall, HI) 17:36
5. Claire Rethmeier (San Pasqual) 17:38
6. Brittany Grimes (Centennial, Bak.) 17:44
7. Sariah St. Laurent (El Camino) 17:46
8. Kim Conley (Montgomery) 18:00
9. Liza Pasciuto (Murrieta Valley) 18:03
10. Liana Boucher (Murrieta Valley) 18:09
11. Lauren Saylor (Buchanan) 18:09
12. Daryan Glenn (Reno, NV) 18:11
12. Lorin Scott (San Pasqual) 18:11
12. Danielle Varela (Sultana) 18:11

GIRLS HONOR ROLL - FRIDAY
1. Lindsay Flacks (Harvard/Westlake) 17:32
2. Katie Gose (La Reina) 18:15
3. Melissa Grelli (Presentation) 18:29|
4. Vera Ross (Campolindo) 18:30
5. Kelsy Hardt (Hopi, Az.) 18:32
6. Mo Huber (Acalanes) 18:41
7. Jenna Kingma (San Luis Obispo) 18:47
8. Annie St. Geme (Corona del Mar) 18:48
9. Nicole McCaskell (Rim of the World) 18:53
10. Jasmine Day (Costa Mesa) 18:57
11. Bridget Ballard (Harvard/Westlake) 19:05
12. Michelle Born (Oakmont) 19:06

GIRLS BEST TEAM TIMES - FRIDAY
1. Harvard/Westlake 98:12 (D3 Sweepstakes 3rd place)
2. Santa Margarita 98:14 (D3 Sweepstakes winner)
3. Campolindo 98:33 (D3 Sweepstakes runner-up - mistakenly left out of original results)
4. Hopi, Az. 98:52 (Division IV Sweepstakes winner)
5. Corona del Mar 99:24
6. Costa Mesa 100:36
7. Acalanes 100:49
8. San Lorenzo Valley 101:00 (Division IV Sweepstakes runner-up)
9. Chino Hills 101:17
10. Woodcrest Christian 101:50 (Division V Sweepstakes winner)
11. Rim of the World 102:04
12. La Canada 102:15
13. Bolsa Grande 102:28

File photo.
It was Burbank HS phenom Jeff Nelson who captured the hearts of a distance-running nation
during the late 1970's running boom. Nelson still owns the Mt. SAC 'original course' record, a
stunning 14:32 streak into prep history. Nelson also holds the U.S. prep 2-mile track record (8:36).

• Full meet results - From the Sweepstakes to the Frosh!
• The meet preview -- Course record in jeopardy?
• Mt. SAC Meet History - 1978 (25 yrs ago) - 1983 (20) - 1988 (15) - 1993 (10)
• The meet's entries - Seven nationally-ranked teams lock horns.
• The meet's time schedule - Races go off every 7 minutes!
• The Mt. SAC course -- An aerial photo of "A runner's rite of passage"
• How to run Mt. SAC -- Former Ventura HS ace Josh Spiker lends insight
• The meet's own website