San Diego Mesa Invite

NTC Park, San Diego

October 1^st

The men's cross country team traveled down to San Diego this weekend to take on the best teams in southern California. This meet is always a great test to see where the Beavers rank in the state as the southern region has won 29 of 35 state meets since the state combined divisions into 1 race in 1984. ARC has won 5 of the 6 state titles that Northern California schools have won. So in other words, SoCal Preview meet is usually a good preview of the state competition. With all of that being said, the Beavers went down and had a good day on the course! The top teams of ARC, Mt. Sac, San Diego Mesa, and Riverside all had their 5 scoring runners up in the main pack and close behind. Each mile split had a different order of the top 4 teams! At the end, it was too close to tell what the order of the Top 3 teams would be! After all the scores were finally tallied up, Mt. Sac won with 46 points, San Diego Mesa was 2^nd with 52 points, and ARC was 3^rd with 53 points. 6 points separating 1^st from 3^rd is about as close as cross country race can get and was decided by seconds, and in some cases fractions of seconds. While the Beavers wished to be on the higher placing side of the results, this race showed that the state meet in November is going to be a very close race and will most likely come down to a few points again. The Beavers next race will be at the Bronco Invite in Sunnyvale on October 16th

Team Scores

Mt Sac                               46

San Diego Mesa                 52

ARC                                   53

Riverside                            79

3^rd          Cristian Martinez

6^th          Jacob Cristopher

9^th          Ethan Dodge

13^th        Lucas Reeves

22^nd       Colin Wong

35^th        Pedro Tirado

36^th        Jason Finta