November 23, 2019

Woodward Park, Fresno

The American River College men's cross country team improved on their #3 state ranking to capture 2^nd place behind San Diego Mesa College at Saturday's State Championships. This is the 6^th top 2 finish in the last 9 years (including 4 championship teams) and the 10^th top 3 finish in the last 17 years. The Beavers 65 points was about 30 points better than anticipated and 76 points ahead of 3^rd place Mt San Antonio College and 167 points ahead of the top NorCal team College of Sequoias. Leading the way for the Beavers was freshman (Placer HS) Jesus Guerra-Reyes and his 4^th place finish (1^st team All-American), covering the 4 mile course in 20:35, and coming in as the top freshman in the state. Finishing in the top 10 and securing All-American status was sophomore Collin DeJulio (10^th place/20:50 – Vista Del Lago HS). Rounding out the top 5 scorers  for the Beavs were Ben Blankenburg's 18^th place finish (21:09 – Bella Vista HS), Peter Vo's 19^th place finish (21:10 – Lodi HS), and Josh Klings 20^th place finish (21:12 – Whitney HS). This is the first time in ARC history the Beavers have had all 5 runners in the top 20 overall finishers. Finishing as 6^th man for ARC was Ruben Garcia in 25^th place (21:19 – Monterey Trail HS) and taking the 7^th man spot was Andrew Ribeiro's 64^th place finish (21:58 – Spanish Springs HS).

Complete results at CCCAA Cross Country State Championships