CROSS COUNTRY: HIGHLAND'S ACOSTA GETS STATE TUNEUP WITH WIN.Byline: IVAN OROZCO Staff Writer LA CRESCENTA -- Jeremy Acosta, along with a handful of top area cross country runners, got a glimpse Saturday of what the competition could be like in November at the state championship meet. The 40th annual Kenny Staub/John Barnes Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. at Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. Park featured 53 schools from different parts of the state, but that wasn't enough to intimidate in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. Acosta. The Highland of Palmdale senior managed to kick out the final 20 meters of the boys' Div. I race for a second straight first-place finish Noun 1. first-place finish - a finish in first place (as in a race) win - a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win" . Acosta wasn't the only runner with back-to-back wins. Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta's Claire Collison took first for the second year in a row in the girls' Div. I race with a time of 17minutes, 48 seconds. While Collison dominated her race, Acosta had to fight off two runners all the way to the finish of the 3-mile course for the win. With Del Campo of Fair Oaks' James Tracy and Alhambra's Phillip Benavides shadowing him, Acosta turned it on to finish with a time of 15:26, one second faster than Tracy and two quicker than Benavides. "I definitely knew this was going to be one of the fastest races I'm doing before state," Acosta said. "On the last half-mile there was about six of us fighting for the lead and I saw (Benavides) in front of me. I told myself I had to win, so I started catching up in the cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder. part before the last stretch." Acosta shaved shave v. shaved, shaved or shav·en , shav·ing, shaves v.tr. 1. a. To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver: 29 seconds from his time last year (15:55), giving him his fourth first-place finish this season in five races. Highland placed ninth (203points) in Div. I. Loyola of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. took first with 74team points. "Hopefully this helps me get ready for CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). finals and beyond," Acosta said. Collison finished 50 seconds ahead of teammate and second-place finisher Rachel Lange. Highland's Caylie Choate, a freshman, placed third (19:01). Collison and Lange helped Crescenta Valley place first with 30 team points. "I was trying to get the course record but it didn't really work out," Collison said. "I think I'm a little tired; I'm not sure. This was a hard week of training, so that pushed us. We didn't have much time to rest." Collison's time was 30 seconds behind course record-holder Anita Siraki of Hoover of Glendale in 2000. Oakwood's Van Halen wins big at Stanford: Senior Aric Van Halen won the Div. V boys' race of the Stanford Invitational on Saturday at the Stanford Golf Course. The Oakwood of North Hollywood senior finished the race in 15:59 to finish more than a minute-and-a-half ahead of second-place finisher Nathan Chellman of Sage Ridge. Oakwood placed third with 102 team points. Also at Stanford, the Oak Park boys' team took first in Div. III with 110 points. James Goldstein James Goldstein is a multi-millionaire "NBA superfan" who attends over one hundred NBA games each season (typically in courtside seats), including approximately 95 percent of home games for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. led Oak Park with a sixth-place finish and a 15:51 clocking. Garrison Gourdeau finished 11th (16:05). Oaks Christian's Rosanne Flemming's fourth-place finish in the girls' Div. IV race helped the Lions finish first with 119 team points. ivan.orozco@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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