CROSS COUNTRY NOTEBOOK CANYON, QUARTZ IN FINAL SHOWDOWN AT MT. SAC.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News The state cross country championships is the benchmark competition for the Quartz Hill High girls. The battle for region supremacy will be decided when the squads go head to head in the team sweepstakes race of 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 Saturday. The two-day meet, the largest in the nation with nearly 10,000 runners, will be the final meeting between Canyon, the state's No. 3 team in Division II, and Quartz Hill, sixth in Division I. It is a rivalry that figures to continue in upcoming years with both teams heavily laden with freshmen. Quartz Hill and Canyon finished 1-2 in the season-opening Seaside Invitational in Ventura in September. Quartz Hill posted a team time for its five scoring runners 31 seconds faster than Canyon. Quartz Hill, which is closing in on its second Golden League title in three seasons, has been boosted by the addition of freshmen Lacey Troth, Amanda O'Neal and Amanda Morgan. Seniors Jenny Yadon and Katie Schettig were members of the 1997 Quartz Hill team that placed fourth in the state Division I final. Sophomore Tarah Novelli has consistently been among the Rebels' top five. Quartz Hill was second in the Division I race of the Stanford Invitational and captured the large-schools race of the Clovis Invitational run 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, the site of the state championships. Quartz Hill figures to be severely tested at Mt. SAC. The field includes the state's top two teams in Division I with Peninsula and Clovis Buchanan and Division II with Woodbridge and Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, city, Argentina Santa Rosa, city (1991 pop. 80,629), capital of La Pampa prov., central Argentina. It is a modern city and road junction surrounded by a rich agricultural and cattle-raising area. Montgomery. Nationally ranked and defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre San Lorenzo Valley The San Lorenzo Valley is a region of Santa Cruz County, California, colloquially known as "SLV". It contains the towns Ben Lomond, Felton, Brookdale and Boulder Creek, though which run Highway 9 and the San Lorenzo River, down through the Santa Cruz Mountains into the city of , the state's top Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. squad, is also back. --Desert Storm: Desert Christian will compete in the boys' and girls' Division V sweepstakes on Friday in the Mt. SAC Invitational. The girls, who are seeking their fourth state-meet appearance, are ranked fifth with the seniors Bethany Spoelstra and Deann Matteson, along with junior Jessica Lembo and sisters Claytonia, a sophomore, and freshman Nadia Tarazi. The Knights will be without junior Jynnifer Wright, the 10th-place finisher in the 1999 state Division V final, who has been sidelined by hernia hernia, protrusion of an internal organ or part of an organ through the wall of a body cavity. The hernia is enclosed by a sac formed by the lining of the cavity. It results from a weakness or rupture in the wall, usually where there is already a natural weakness. surgery. The Desert Christian boys, led by senior Daniel Miller People called Daniel Miller include:
AT A GLANCE What: Mt. San Antonio College Invitational Where: Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut When: Today and Saturday Schedule: The nation's largest high school meet will be highlighted by the Division III, IV and V sweepstakes races today and the Division I and II individual and team sweepstakes on Saturday. Competition begins today at 2 p.m. with sweepstakes competition starting at 4:45 p.m. Saturday's races start at 7:15 a.m., with sweepstakes races beginning at 9 a.m. CAPTION(S): box Box: At a Glance (see text) |
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