CITY SECTION CROSS COUNTRY: GRANADA HILLS' VIRAY TAKES CONFERENCE TITLE.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News Nicolette Viray is taking a break from swimming, but it has not slowed the Granada Hills High junior in cross country. Viray, the defending City Section 200-yard freestyle swimming This article is about freestyle competition. For the swimming style commonly associated with this competition, see Front crawl. Freestyle is one of the official swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. champion competing in her first year of cross country, timed a lifetime best of 18 minutes, 41 seconds on the 3-mile Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. course to win the Northwest Valley Conference title Wednesday. ``I know swimming helped my running, so I was kind of scared I am going to get slower and slower,'' Viray said. Those fears proved unfounded Wednesday. Viray sliced 30 seconds off her previous Pierce College best of 19:11 for a 26-second victory over Birmingham's Dina Melendez. Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK) a semi-longhaired version of the Burmese cat. It has a fine, silky coat in many colors. Burgess BURGESS. A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it of Birmingham, the 1996 City champion, was third in 19:41. Three weeks ago, Viray, who helped Granada Hills to its fourth consecutive City swimming and diving title last spring, stopped swimming for her first extended break from the sport since starting at age 9. Her goal Wednesday was to run under 19:30. ``I am kind of mad because now I feel I have to beat my time,'' Viray said. ``I didn't like swimming because I had to make goals. I don't like making high goals. Running is just for fun.'' Viray, along with her twin Claudette, who was 14th, helped Granada Hills finish third in the team competition with 78 points. Birmingham, paced by the 2-3 finish of Melendez and Burgess, notched a 32-60 triumph over Taft despite an illness to the Patriots' No. 2 runner Erika Dolezal, who did not finish among the team's top five. Nuria Vanegas, Michelle Rivera and Melissa Astete rounded out the Birmingham scoring in seventh, 10th and 12th. 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:
The Birmingham boys The Birmingham Boys was a street gang prominent in London's underworld during the 1920s, rivaling Sicilian mafiosi Darby Sabini for control of horse racing and other illegal gambling activities in southeastern England. , bolstered bol·ster n. A long narrow pillow or cushion. tr.v. bol·stered, bol·ster·ing, bol·sters 1. To support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion. 2. by the recent addition of Chatsworth transfer Ruben Ruiz, took five of the first seven spots to outdistance out·dis·tance tr.v. out·dis·tanced, out·dis·tanc·ing, out·dis·tanc·es 1. To outrun, especially in a long-distance race. 2. runner-up Taft, 19-77, for its 10th conference title. Ruiz, the City Section frosh-soph champion who transferred to Birmingham after moving into the Patriots' attendance district last week, won in 16:14 for a 37-second victory over teammate Martin Regalado. Lino Ortiz, Alfredo Murillo and Mateo Gonzalez completed the Patriots' scoring in fourth, fifth and seventh. ``Everything happened so fast,'' Ruiz said. ``I feel a lot more comfortable. It was hard to run against my former teammates, but I am glad to have a good team behind me and a chance to make it to the state meet.'' In the Valley Pac-8 Conference finals, Natalie Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. of North Hollywood, the defending City champion, clocked 18:13 for the fastest time of the day and win by more than two minutes over runner-up Molly Roche of Grant. The Huskies, lifted by Stein's victory and the 3-4 finish of sisters Letty and Daisy Del Rio Del Rio (rē`ō), city (1990 pop. 30,705), seat of Val Verde co., W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Acuña, Mexico; founded 1868, inc. 1911. , placed five runners among the top eight to outdistance Grant 22-61 for their third consecutive conference title. The Monroe boys, powered by the 1-2-3 finish of Juan Granados (16:22), Leon Buchanon (16:28) and Germain Ortiz (16:29), held off Reseda 56-72 to defend their Valley Pac-8 championship. The top four teams and the first 15 finishers not on a qualifying team advance to next Tuesday's City Section preliminaries at Pierce College. Viray ran in a lead pack which included Birmingham's Burgess and Melindez and Taft's Isaura Rodriguez in the early stages of the Northwest Valley Conference girls' final. Viray, however, surged to a 15-meter lead on the longest downhill of the first circuit shortly after the first mile and was never challenged thereafter. ``I tried to pace myself,'' Viray said. ``I don't like being first. Winning was in the back of my mind, but it wasn't my main goal. I just wanted to try my hardest.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Monroe's Juan Granados ran 16:22 to win the Valley-Pac 8 title Wednesday at Pierce College. (2) North Hollywood's Natalie Stein, left, pushes ahead to take the Valley-Pac 8 title Wednesday. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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