DAY IN SPORTS: MONROE RUNNER GAINS GROUND ON `MENTOR'.Byline: Daily News Gabriel Guzman was just a skinny freshman when 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. won his second consecutive City Section championships for Monroe of North Hills in 2002, but he wasn't too young to learn from him. ``He was my mentor "My Mentor" is the second episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 2 of Season 1 on October 4, 2001. Plot Elliot gets on Carla's bad side after telling Dr. Kelso about one of Carla's mistakes. Elliot gets defensive with J.D. ,'' Guzman said after running a City-best 15 minutes, 39 seconds Wednesday in the section preliminaries on the 2.97-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. . ``It would mean so much to me to be able to do what he did.'' Guzman, a junior, is a prohibitive favorite to win the City title Nov. 20 at Pierce, but he said he'll probably have to shave at least 10 seconds off his time Wednesday to do so. Ruiz ran 15:22 as a junior and 14:54 as a senior to win his two City titles. ``He's clawing toward where (Ruiz) was,'' Monroe coach Dean Balzarett said. ``I think he can still run faster than he has. But he's good enough to do it.'' Ruiz led Monroe to a second-place finish 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 in its heat, but the Vikings were well behind Birmingham of Lake Balboa (56-85). Two-time defending City champion San Pedro easily won its heat and had the best average time (16:16) of any boys' team. In the girls' competition, Birmingham of Van Nuys' Jennifer Hernandez ran a season-best 18:24 and finished 8 seconds behind Hamilton's Katja Goldring. Her Birmingham teammate, Emmaline Hartel, ran 18:49. Hartel, the defending City champion, ran 18:05 and Hernandez ran 18:30 last week. ``It's just going to be who tries their hardest that day,'' Hernandez said of the rivalry between herself and Hartel. Birmingham will need Hartel and Hernandez to finish 1-2 at the City championship in order to gain ground on three-time defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre San Pedro. - Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. PREP FOOTBALL SANTA FE --Bell-Jeff 48, Cantwell-SH 22: Bell-Jeff scored the first 30 points on its way to winning the Sante Fe League, its first outright title in 50 years. Adrian Antema scored the first two touchdowns for Bell-Jeff (9-1, 4-0) on runs of 1 and 36 yards. Joey Diaz gained a game-high 97 yards on 15 carries. Derek Leiphardt also scored touchdowns on runs 14 and 52 yards. -Howard Abrams Commitment:Campbell Hall swingman swing·man n. Basketball A team member who can play effectively in two different positions, especially forward and guard. Joe Ford has signed a basketball letter of intent to attend University of the Pacific. |
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