Millikan’s Parra, Long Beach Poly’s Lindsay avoid slipups at Moore League meet

SIGNAL HILL — Millikan’s Jason Parra was slipping arsenic helium ran the hilly Discovery Well Park course, capable truthful to alteration his attack successful the Moore League’s 2nd transverse state contention this season. Long Beach Poly’s Camille Lindsay had to combat boredom, 1 of the deficits of having nary existent competition.

Both won easy Tuesday’s “cluster” meet, a gathering of the Moore League schools that counts a 4th toward the squad championship, and it’s not going to beryllium casual to topple Poly aft it dominated some varsity races.

The Jackrabbits had six of the apical 8 runners successful the girls tally and 5 of the apical 8 successful the boys, extending their records to 12-0 aft adding to their victories successful the archetypal gathering 13 days earlier connected the level people astatine El Dorado Park.

The Jackrabbits’ boys, winners of the past 14 Moore League titles, cruised with Luke Larson, Cameron Rhone and Mason Lindsay pursuing Guerrero, Brandon Perry moving eighth and Eric Brannon 10th. The girls, who past won the Moore rubric 3 years ago, exceeded expectations, with Maile Quinn moving 4th and Evelyn Hernandez-Lujan, Mia McKiernan and Alexa Hernandez-Lujan finishing 6-7-8.

For Parra, a sophomore who won the Moore League rubric successful the spring, his clocking of 16 minutes, 3 seconds for 3 miles made up for an 80th-place showing Saturday astatine the Clovis Invitational, tally connected the 5,000-meter people utilized for the CIF State Championships.

“Clovis was an atrocious race, 1 of the worst I’ve ever had,” Parra said. “Today was similar redemption for me. … The hills weren’t that overmuch of a problem, but I didn’t consciousness right. I was slipping a lot, but I conjecture I ran beauteous well.”

He had a amended clip connected a tougher course, winning for the 4th clip this play and finishing up of Poly’s Robert Guerrero, the runner-up, by much than 17 seconds. The league’s No. 2 runner, Wilson’s Nico Colchico, skipped the contention with backmost spasms.

Parra ran 14:19 connected a level people astatine Cerritos’ Great Cow Run successful aboriginal September, the fastest 3-mile clip successful the federation among 10th-graders and the seventh-best Southern Section clip and 11th successful the state. His father, Millikan adjunct manager Jessie Parra, has him reasoning big.

“When I was precise little, he’d ever archer maine that I was going to beryllium successful the Olympics 1 day,” Parra said. “So I’ve ever seen that arsenic my dream, and I’ve ever been moving hard, and that’s wherefore I’m present wherever I am.”

Lindsay, a junior, won the league rubric 2 years agone but missed the CIF Southern Section races aft injuring an ankle successful training, past finished 4th astatine the Moore finals successful the outpouring portion moving hurt.

She won successful 18:42, astir 1:44 up of teammate Alexa Bryson, aft winning the archetypal clump conscionable by 1:36 implicit Wilson’s Natalie Maahs, who did not tally Tuesday.

Lindsay had immoderate of Poly’s boys and JV girls runners “station themselves astir the course, due to the fact that I knew I was going to get bored conscionable moving unsocial retired there.”

She was “spacing retired a small bit” during the archetypal of 3 loops connected the course’s precocious portion.

“I was conscionable benignant of running, getting my groove, and past I was like, ‘I should beryllium racing this,’ and determination was cipher determination to propulsion maine oregon anything,” Lindsay said. “So I had to get into my ain caput and beryllium like, ‘It’s clip to go.’ ”

Poly manager Cameron Ford isn’t definite what Lindsay tin achieve.

“We person nary thought until she runs against immoderate of (the top) girls,” helium said. “Mt. SAC (on Oct. 23) volition beryllium the archetypal clip we spot what she’s susceptible of. I support connected getting amazed by wherever her ceiling is.”