CROSS COUNTRY ROUNDUP: BIRMINGHAM GIRLS VAULT TO LEAGUE TITLE.Byline: Julio Cortez Staff Writer Everybody knows Melissa Astete the pole vaulter. But hardly anyone knows her as the cross country runner. Astete, a Birmingham High of Van Nuys senior who has three City Section championships in the pole vault pole vault Track-and-field event consisting of a vault for height over a crossbar with the aid of a long pole. It became a competitive sport in the mid-19th century and was included in the first modern Olympic Games. , increased her success in cross country by leading the Patriots in Thursday's West Valley League finals at 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 at Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. . ``(Cross country) is where I started,'' said Astete, who won her race with a time of 19:58. ``I've been running my whole life. I ran two L.A. Marathons and have been focusing on this sport.'' Birmingham, which cruised to a 15-point victory over El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
The six Birmingham runners, along with the next four finishers - Granada Hills' Marjorie Reed, Taft's Jennifer Garlington, El Camino Real's Rosa Hurtado and Birmingham's Perica Bell - earned a chance to participate against the top runners in each of the other leagues in next week's individual City Section preliminaries. The top three teams in each league will also compete next week. The West Valley League boys' race was won by Taft of Woodland Hills' Daniel Clements, who had a personal best at 15:28. Clements, a 1999 City runner-up in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter races, trailed second-place finisher Chris Wells-Anders of El Camino Real of Woodland Hills for the first 1 1/2 miles but took advantage when the leader slowed his pace. ``I'm really happy,'' Clements said. ``I finally finished what I started. The (warm and windy) weather was a factor, I felt kind of dizzy at the end. It's all mental, because of daylight savings I was thinking we were running an hour earlier. That helped.'' The best team performance - besides Birmingham taking the first six places in the girls' race - came in the Valley Mission League by the Reseda girls' team, which featured Mae Murakami, Kristen Armendariz, Maria Hernandez and Doris Casas finishing fourth through seventh. The Regents won 25-32 over Kennedy of Granada Hills, the only other team to field a full five-member team. Diana Zepeda and Monica Modi led the Cougars with first- and second-place finishes Noun 1. second-place finish - a finish in second place (as in a race) runner-up finish 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 , respectively. The boys' Valley Mission League race was led by Germain Ortiz of Monroe, who finished first at 15:49. The Vikings - featuring Manuel Ruiz Manuel Ruiz Pérez (born December 3, 1962 in Jerez de la Frontera) is a Spanish football coach and former player. During his football career, he played for several clubs including his childhood club Xerez CD, UD Melilla and Sanluqueño. , Juan Guzman, Paramjit Singh and Jhordanth Acosta - had its five runners place in the top 10 en route to a 21-point victory over Van Nuys (50) and Reseda (73). The Sunset Six League featured a strong performance by North Hollywood's Natalie Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. , who, despite battling flu symptoms, finished first with a 1:36 cushion over teammate Amanda Tang tang, in zoology tang: see butterfly fish. . The Huskies, which won the team race with 21 points over Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. (25) and Hollywood (65), were also helped by Anieleha Tijerino, who finished third. |
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