CROSS COUNTRY: OAK PARK IN HIGH GEAR AT MT. SAC.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News dlim The Oak Park High boys' cross country team will have to wait until the State meet for another shot at top-ranked McFarland. The Eagles, however, continued its remarkable rise among the state's elite in the Division IV sweepstakes in the 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. 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. on Friday. Oak Park, which finished 11th in the 1998 Southern Section championships, placed second in Friday's competition featuring five of the state's top 10 ranked teams. Oak Park, paced by Mark Nevers, Erik Wackenstedt and Ben Saxey, totaled 102 points to finish seven points behind six-time state champion McFarland with five runners under 17 minutes over the hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill 3-mile course. Two-time defending state champion Nordhoff was third with 108. Junior Mark Nevers, runner-up in the 1998 state Division IV final, was fourth in a personal-best 15:31. Teammates Erik Wackenstedt and Ben Saxey were 14th and 16th in 16:06 and 16:17. Sophomores Chase Ferrell and Taylor Hermes, 33rd and 35th in 16:46 and 16:49, may be the determining factor in next month's state meet. Ferrell cut more than a minute off his best from the 1998 section finals and Hermes ran only 20:08 at Mt. SAC as a freshman. ``You can't expect these types of astronomical improvements,'' Oak Park coach Kevin Smith said. ``We were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a quality performance but it wasn't going to be measured if we got first, second, third, fifth or seventh. It was how did we perform as a team and do the things we trained to do.'' Defending state champion La Canada was third in the girls' Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. sweepstakes behind runner-up Nicole Bonino. Third-place finishes 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 were also turned in by the Louisville and Desert Christian girls in the Divisions IV and V sweepstakes. |
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