CHATTER: ACOSTA LOOKS TO REBOUND AT REGIONAL MEET.For the majority of the runners across the state, the high school cross country season came to an end last week with the state championship meet. But a handful of local athletes are not done competing. Several of the area's top runners are slated to race in today's FootLocker West Regional meet at Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC; pronounced as the word "sack") is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, next to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona which is just over a hill. Mt. in Walnut. Among those competing is Highland of Palmdale's Jeremy Acosta and the Bulldogs' standout has something to prove. He didn't qualify for the state meet after becoming ill during the Southern Section finals. He suffered from dizziness and blurred vision during the Div. I qualifying race. "I have to prove that I can make it to nationals," said Acosta, who will run in the boys' seeded race. "Once I qualify I am shooting for top eight, then I'll see what I can do after that. I want to run somewhere between 15:30 to 15:40." The top 10 runners in the seeded races qualify to the Foot Locker Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL) is a major American sportswear and footwear retailer, with its headquarters in New York City, and operating in approximately 20 countries worldwide. It is the successor corporation to the F.W. Woolworth Company (“Woolworth’s”). National Championships on Dec. 8 in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Also lated lat·ed adj. Belated. [From late.] to run are area standouts Sean Gildea of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , Oak Park's Garrison Gourdaeu, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks' Charles Maginnis, Birmingham of Lake Balboa's Waldo Jimenez, El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
State Div. I runner-up Claire Collison of Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta is slated to run in the girls' seeded race. Teammate Rachel Lange is expected to join her, as are Burroughs of Burbank's Sadee Martinez and La Reina of Thousand Oaks' Sarah Pearson. -- Ivan Orozco ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) puts unbeaten streak on the line at showcase The El Camino Real of Woodland Hills girls' soccer team puts its 19-match unbeaten streak on the line at 5:15 p.m. today against Thousand Oaks in one of six contests at Westlake High as part of the third annual Westlake Soccer Showcase. Eleven local programs are taking part in the the six-match schedule, highlighted by the host Warriors renewing their nonleague rivalry with Harvard-Westlake of Studio City at 7 p.m. Chaminade of West Hills plays Canyon of Canyon Country at 10 a.m., Highland of Palmdale faces Louisville of Woodland Hills at 11:45 a.m., Flintridge Sacred Heart of La Canada Flintridge meets Moorpark at 1:45 p.m. and Royal of Simi Valley battles Buena of Ventura at 3:30 p.m. -- Erik Boal |
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