Baylands Park, Santa Clara

The Beavers ran split squads for the Bronco Invitational again for 2014. In the Invitational, section the Beavers ran their top 10 athletes of their 19-man squad. As a team the ARC Invite men took 15th place among the 23 teams. Not a bad showing, considering the other 22 teams in the race were all 4-year colleges, including several ranked NCAA DI and DII teams – Oklahoma State, Stanford, Cal Poly, Chico State, and several others. Freshman Abdul Hamid took it out early going through the mile in 4:45, 2 miles in 9:37, 3 miles in 14:32, 4 miles in 19:27, then finished up the 8k (actually only 20 meters short of 5 miles) in 24:17 – which is the fastest community college time in the history of the Santa Clara Invitational (edging 2013 ARC star runner Will Reyes time of 24:18). Sean Gregg was ARC's 2nd runner in 25:12, followed by Patrick Jagerson (25:23), Aidan Schraer (25:26), David French (25:33), Jason Morris (25:36), Sean Jagerson (25:55), Logan Stahl (25:56) and Epi Nunez (26:19).

Complete results can be found at http://www.directathletics.com/results/xc/6257.html

In the Open Section, the Beavers placed 4th out of 16 DI, DII, NAIA's and JC's. Luke Rodgers of ARC was top finisher in 40th place and a time of 26:26. He was followed by Casey Aguirre (26:28), Chris Garcia (26:44), Anthony Sanchez (27:30), Brad Needles (28:24), Ryan Wells (28:32), Micah Rankin (28:38) and Leo Ochoa (30:04).

Complete results can be found at http://www.directathletics.com/results/xc/6258.html