CROSS COUNTRY : NEIPP AMONG WINNERS AT SANTA CLARITA.Byline: Danny Schumacher Daily News Staff Writer Last cross country season, Highland High School's Andrea Neipp was running all alone in a noninvitational race at 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. She was so far ahead, timers at the finish line thought she was a straggler strag·gle intr.v. strag·gled, strag·gling, strag·gles 1. To stray or fall behind. 2. To proceed or spread out in a scattered or irregular group. n. from the previous race and didn't record her time. It was probably one of the fastest times in the event's history, but there was no official time taken. With this year's edition of Mt. SAC - one of the biggest invitationals in the country - a week away, Neipp will now be one of the featured competitors. And she looked more than ready during Saturday's Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Invitational, winning the large-school race in dominating fashion at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. . It wasn't a shabby field, either. Neipp was going up against some of the top runners in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , including Canyon's Lauren Fleshman and Julie Harris Julie Harris (born December 2, 1925) is a distinguished American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. , Saugus' Breanne Schweitzer and Quartz Hill's Danielle Day. But it was as if none of those runners were there. Neipp cruised over the three-mile course, outdistancing runner-up Fleshman by 34 seconds while finishing in 17 minutes, 51 seconds. Fleshman took second in 18:25 with Day, Neipp's Golden League rival, taking third in 18:36. Harris (18:43), the defending Foothill League champion, edged Schweitzer (18:50), the 1994 Foothill champ, for fourth. Steve Barrus of Clovis High in Fresno won the boys' large-school race, edging Palmdale's Jacob Geyer. Barrus was timed in 15:46 while Geyer finished in 15:47. Monroe's Ali BenMohamed was third in the race in 16:02, followed by Littlerock's Bryan Green Bryan Alexander Green (born 30 June 1957, Wollongong) is a Tasmanian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon. In July 2006 he was forced to step down as Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure, Energy, and Resources pending (fourth, 16:20) and Newbury Park's Ross Wood (fifth, 16:23). Clovis, one of the top programs in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , pulled off a clean sweep of the boys' and girls' large-school team titles. In the girls' race, Clovis edged Canyon, last year's State and Southern Section Division I champion, 50-57 thanks in part to an impressive pack. Clovis' top five runners - Chrisie Gregory (eighth, 19:25), Kym Pilger (ninth, 19:27), Kristin Fairley (10th, 19:54), Lindsey Hahn (11th, 20:09) and Tianna Martinez (12th, 20:13) - finished with a remarkable 48 seconds separating the first runner from the fifth runner. That split Canyon's top five of Fleshman (second, 18:25), Harris (fourth, 18:43), Jean Drummond (15th, 20:24), Erin White (16th, 20:24) and Jasmine Citrone (20th, 20:38). |
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