CROSS COUNTRY: CLEMENTS WINS CITY TITLE STATE NEXT FOR TAFT SENIOR.Byline: Julio Cortez Staff Writer Daniel Clements of Woodland Hills' Taft High saw many things that surprised at Saturday's City Section cross country finals at 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. . The tall, slim runner did not expect to have a fast and easy performance in the final mile of the tough, hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill , three-mile course. He didn't even expect to see so many family members making the long and breath-consuming climb to the course's tallest points just to cheer him on. ``All my family was here rooting for me,'' said Clements, who stayed with a seven-runner pack in the first two miles before escaping on the third. ``Every time I ran by a crowd, (my family members) were there. ``I usually run my best on the downhill, so (at the top of the highest hill) was were I started to make my move. (I turned on) the nitrous nitrous /ni·trous/ (ni´trus) pertaining to nitrogen in its lowest valency. nitrous oxide a gas, N2O, used as a general anesthetic, usually in combination with another agent. .'' The senior's 15:16.25 first-place time, a personal best, was 13 seconds faster than Eagle Rock's Oscar Sanchez - a second-place finisher and the first runner in Eagles' history to make it to the state finals. Other runners who qualified for next Saturday's state race at Woodward Park Woodward Park (34 acres) is a public park, botanical garden, and arboretum located between 21st Street and 24th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is open to the public daily. in Fresno were Cleveland's Damian Mendoza (15:32.18), El Camino Real's Chris Wells-Anders (15:35.42) and Birmingham's Lino Ortiz (15:37.18). Ortiz was the leader of the pack after the first mile but dropped to third on the second mile and to eighth by the end of the race. Mendoza, however, had a different approach as he stayed well behind the pack before shifting to a higher gear on the last mile. The Monroe of North Hills team, which featured Manuel Ruiz Manuel Ruiz Pérez (born December 3, 1962 in Jerez de la Frontera) is a Spanish football coach and former player. During his football career, he played for several clubs including his childhood club Xerez CD, UD Melilla and Sanluqueño. , Germain Ortiz, Paramjit Singh, Juan Guzman and Khordant Acosta, finished second in the team competition with 104 culmulative points behind Belmont's 45. Birmingham and Taft finished third and fourth, respectively, but only the top two teams advanced to the state finals. The girls' race was not as close as the boys'. The 77 runners in the girls' race followed Natalie Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. , the Sunset Six League champion, who finished in first place with a time of 17:13.65. Stein barely missed breaking the course record of 17:13.29. Stein, whose fans included UCLA's Valerie Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the - who set the Pierce College course record at last year's City finals for San Pedro - had a 1-minute, 34-second cushion Cushion In the context of project financing, the extra amount of net cash flow remaining after expected debt service. cushion See call protection. over second-place finisher Heather Rosas of San Pedro. ``(Stein and I) are friends,'' Flores said. ``She's a good runner. And if the record was going to be broken, I'd rather it was her who did it.'' Stein never gave anyone a chance to stay alongside her. The senior, who has a 4.0 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted and has juggled four advanced-placement classes along with her running duties this season, led by 37 seconds at the one-mile mark before extending her lead to 1:04 on the second mile. ''I felt really good,'' Stein said. ''I was trying to go for my personal best. It's exciting that I was close (to the course record) because (Flores) is such a good runner.'' Eagle Rock's Jessica Lopez finished sixth overall with a time of 19:22.06 and was the only other local runner to qualify for the state finals. ``(Lopez) qualified for state last year,'' said Eagle Rock coach Gilbert Varela. ''She was sick at the state finals race. Out of 100 runners, she finished 49th.'' Birmingham's Melissa Astete, who won the West Valley League championship two weeks ago, was among the top three runners for most of the race but missed qualifying for state by one spot when she fell to an eighth-place finish with a pain on the side of her stomach. It's a problem she has had for four years and doctors can't seem to find the reason why it hurts her when she runs. The Patriots' team - composed of Astete, Martha Gonzalez, Norma Venegas, Marina Marina “a piece of virtue.” [Br. Lit.: Pericles] See : Virtuousness Santana and Ashley Barb - also came close to qualifying for state, gathering 62 points in a third-place finish Noun 1. third-place finish - a finish in third place (as in a race) finish - designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the . Belmont (37 points) and San Pedro (62) took first and second places, respectively, and advance to next week's race. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Natalie Stein of North Hollywood High
John Kennedy/Special to the Daily News (2) Woodland Hills Taft senior Daniel Clements won the City Section cross country title by a 13-second margin. John Kennedy/Special to the Daily News |
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