CROSS COUNTRY: RIO MESA'S REID ROMPS.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News OJAI - Phillip Reid, notorious for non-running mishaps, has made it through the cross country season unscathed. The Rio Mesa High junior's undefeated record against Pacific View League rival Brandon Lucero this fall is also intact. Reid scored his fourth victory over the Camarillo High senior en route to the Ventura County championships at Lake Casitas Lake Casitas is a lake in Ventura County, California. It was formed by Casitas Dam on Coyote Creek, two miles (3 km) before it joins the Ventura River. Santa Ana Creek and North Fork Coyote Creek also flow into the lake. on Friday to become Rio Mesa's first county champion, male or female, since the meet's inception in 1976. Reid's mark of 15 minutes, 18 seconds ranks seventh on the all-time list for the 3-mile course that compares similarly time-wise to 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. and traverses winding cement and dirt paths with moderate hills. Lucero was second in the 15:27 for the ninth-best mark. It was also a landmark day for the Royal boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. , who ran to their first county team titles. The Highlander boys, buoyed by the 3-4-5 finish of junior Tim Hearst, senior Charlie Serrano and Travis Patterson, beat Oak Park 61-94. Royal's girls, paced by sophomores Morgan Noe and Erin Roesinger in fourth and fifth and the eighth-place finish of Sarah Montez outdistanced Thousand Oaks 59-96. Westlake Ashley Jones held off Oak Park's Lauren Morales 18:35 to 18:38 to win the individual title in a duel between sophomores. ``The whole goal of the race was to finish strongly,'' Reid said of the boys' race. ``I wasn't thinking in terms of specific people but I was 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. Brandon because he was in my league. I was lucky to win against him.'' The two-time defending Pacific View League champion hasn't had good fortune when it comes to falling. As a freshman, he was sidelined for two weeks from injuries suffered when he flew head first over the handle bars of his mountain biking mountain biking Sports medicine A sport in which participants use specialized bicycles to navigate rough, steep trails covered with unforgiving rocks Injury risk Concussions, fractures, death. See Extreme sport, Novelty seeking behavior. while swerving to avoid a pedestrian. During track last spring, his season came to a disappointing end inthe Southern Section Division II preliminaries when he ran a subpar sub·par adj. 1. Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production. 2. Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf. race after suffering deep lacerations on his left hand after falling down a flight of stairs Noun 1. flight of stairs - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next flight of steps, flight staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps a half an hour before his race. ``I am just accident prone accident prone specially susceptible to accidents. ,'' Reed said with a laugh. ``I'm clumsy. All my friends will tell you, I fall a lot. Running is the only that I know how to do well.'' A blistering finish is another talent in his repertoire. As in the first two league meets, Reid broke free of Lucero in the final mile. He doubled a four-second lead at the 2-mile mark. Reid and Lucero finished 1-2 in the first two league meets and 10th and 11th in the individual sweepstakes race of the Mt. San Antonio College Invitational last Saturday. Reid and Lucero will meet for a fifth time in the Pacific View League finals at College Park in Oxnard on Thursday. |
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