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WALNUT — Millikan’s Jason Parra stayed with perchance the top precocious schoolhouse transverse state squad successful the state’s history. Long Beach Poly’s Camille Lindsay got her archetypal existent sensation of apical contention and showed she belonged.
Both two-time Moore League champions finished successful the apical 10 of the Division 1 races astatine the CIF Southern Section Finals Saturday greeting connected Mt. San Antonio College’s world-renowned people to beforehand to adjacent week’s CIF State Championships successful Fresno.
St. John Bosco, led by Trinity League champ Christopher Chavez, besides is headed to Fresno’s Woodward Park, for the 3rd clip successful 4 years, aft finishing 4th successful the boys Division 3 race.
Millikan’s Jason Parra led the Division 1 contention for a agelong earlier finishing eighth wide astatine the CIF-SS Cross Country Finals connected Saturday astatine Mt. SAC. (Photo by Scott French, Contributor)
The St. John Bosco transverse state squad finished 4th successful Division 3 astatine the CIF-SS Finals connected Saturday. From left, Ian Sanchez, Aiden Aldana, Harold Muñoz, Alex Leon, Christopher Chavez, Andrew Perez and Ethan Beck. (Photo by Scott French, Contributor)
Long Beach Poly’s Camille Lindsay finished 10th successful Division 1 of the CIF-SS Cross Country Championships connected Saturday and qualified for the CIF State Championships. (Photo by Scott French, Contributor)
St. John Bosco’s Christopher Sanchez helped his squad decorativeness 4th successful Division 3 of the CIF-SS Finals astatine Mt. SAC connected Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Scott French)
A runner crosses the decorativeness enactment for the CIF-SS Division 2 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Temescal Canyon’s Mya Tucker recovers aft finishing the CIF-SS Division 2 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Runners drawback their enactment aft finishing the CIF-SS Division 2 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Pacific Christian’s Moony Warfield is helped aft crawling connected his hands and knees to transverse the decorativeness enactment successful the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Runners statesman the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Runners statesman the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Midland’s Jack Barnes celebrates arsenic helium crosses the finishing enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
An exhausted Georgia Jeanneret of JSerra is tended to by an exigency aesculapian technician aft she finished the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country finalin Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Mira Costa’s Dalia Frias crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 2 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
The Buena transverse state squad get unneurotic for a cheer earlier the commencement of the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
St. Margaret’s Coco Johnson falls to the crushed with exhaustion aft finishing the CIF-SS Division 5 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Rancho Cucamonga’s Renee Du, center, gets immoderate assistance to enactment connected her feet aft finishing the CIF-SS Division 1 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Pasadena High School’s Isaiah Givens celebrates arsenic helium crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Dana Hills’ Jai Dawson sprints to the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 2 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
A runner runs past the person committee arsenic she finishes the CIF-SS Division 5 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Newbury Park’s Colin Sahlman (925) crosses the decorativeness enactment with his teammates Aaron Sahlman, Leo Young, and Lex Young, from left, to triumph the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Pasadena High School’s Isaiah Givens, left, starts the last of the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Oaks Christian’s Payton Godsey heads to the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. La Canada’s Arielle McKenzie trails to travel successful second. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Midland’s Jack Barnes gestures arsenic helium makes his mode down the chute aft winning the CIF-SS Division 5 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Spectators strain to get a photograph of the runners during the CIF-SS Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Pasadena High School’s Isaiah Givens, center, begins the last of the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Newbury Park’s Sam McDonnell crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 1 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Viewpoint’s JiaLian Mackey looks to the decorativeness enactment connected the location agelong to decorativeness archetypal successful the CIF-SS Division 5 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Oaks Christian’s Payton Godsey crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Big Bear’s Max Sannes holds the pb nearing the extremity of the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. Sannes won the race. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Runners navigate the people during the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Runners instrumentality a tumble astatine the commencement of the CIF-SS Division 3 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. After a hold to cheque for injuries, the contention was re-started. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
A bushed Arielle McKenzie reaches for immoderate assistance arsenic she finishes 2nd successful the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country Championship successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
La Canada’s Arielle McKenzie, center, starts the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country last successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
La Canada’s Arielle McKenzie, halfway left, moves from the starting enactment arsenic the CIF-SS Division 4 Cross Country last begins successful Walnut connected Saturday, November 20, 2021. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Parra, 1 of the apical sophomores successful the state, finished eighth successful 15 minutes, 5.6 seconds — the 15th champion clip of the time — aft sticking with Newbury Park’s apical runners for the archetypal 2 miles connected the 2.93-mile course.
Newbury Park had the race’s apical six finishers and scored a cleanable 15 points, decimating the Division 1 grounds of 43 that five-time defending champion Great Oak, the runner-up, acceptable six years ago.
“I americium beauteous happy,” Parra said. “I came retired and did what I had to do. … Our main extremity was conscionable making it past this round, but I deliberation I’m going to privation to get retired hard astatine the opening (at the authorities finals) and instrumentality with the Newbury Park guys. If I bash what I did contiguous — enactment truly adjacent to them, arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin — and I’m successful the close spot astatine the close time, thing tin hap wherever I bushed immoderate of the main guys.”
Parra had the pb for a abbreviated spell connected the 2nd of 2 laps astir the Valley Loop that precedes the archetypal of 3 sizable hills. He said Poop Out Hill, astir two-thirds done the run, “really drained me” and enabled the pb runners, led by victor Colin Sahlman (14:52.6), to unfastened a spot of a gap. Loyola’s Richard Moreno surged past Parra successful the last agelong for seventh place.
Lindsay finished 10th successful 18:11.3 — the day’s 33rd-best girls clip and 81 seconds down Newbury Park’s Sam McDonnell, the victor — and said qualifying for the authorities conscionable “has been my extremity for, like, 2 oregon 3 years, truthful I’m incredibly happy.”
Jackrabbits manager Cameron Ford said she ran “probably the smartest contention I’ve ever seen her run.” That was Lindsay’s plan.
“I started disconnected astir mid-20s place-wise, and I didn’t privation a azygous miss to drawback me, and I conscionable started catching (those up of me) arsenic I was going around,” said Lindsay, who missed the Southern Section races 2 years agone with an ankle wounded and had to rebound aft she was hospitalized astir a period agone aft an allergic absorption to peanuts. “I deliberation I caught, similar 15 people, and I inactive had capable astatine the extremity for a beardown finish. …
“Just going (to Fresno) is unthinkable successful itself. Once I’m there, I privation to spot myself truthful (the different apical runners) tin go, ‘Oh, this is Camille Lindsay. She went to state, and she’s here, and she’s our contention now.’ ”
Poly’s girls finished 15th and the boys, with inferior Cameron Rhone moving 29th (15:33.3), placed ninth. The apical 7 teams precocious to the authorities meet.
St. John Bosco finished with 147 points successful Division 3, conscionable 2 down runner-up Santa Margarita, successful the day’s archetypal event. Chavez, a senior, was 5th successful 15:14.3, the 23rd champion time, and the Braves got personal-bests from sophomores Andrew Perez (15:47.2, 22nd) and Aiden Aldana (15:55,1, 29th).
Chavez, the lone Bosco runner with state-meet experience, was successful the pb aft the archetypal mile, heading into Switchbacks — a tight, zigzagging conception astatine the archetypal of 3 hills — and said helium “probably should person waited until the extremity of the Switchbacks” to surge ahead.
“I’d accidental I did the bare minimum,” helium said. “I went out, I had thing to lose, spell out, person amusive with the race, and spot what I could do, and I benignant of fell abbreviated of it.”
Valley Christian finished 12th successful the Division 5 boys and girls races, and inferior Matthew Kubler, the Olympic League champion, ran 16th successful 16:33.1, 1 spot from winning a medal and 4.9 seconds from qualifying for the authorities meet.
“I felt I could person pushed a batch more,” helium said. “Just got to propulsion more, got to bid harder. I evidently didn’t marque it. It’ll beryllium antithetic adjacent year.”
Whitney elder Lorenzo Rodriguez-Boix, the 605 League titlist, was 23rd successful boys Division 4 successful 16:14.7, and Mayfair elder Mia Cuellar, the Suburban League runner-up, ran 19:59.7 for 46th successful the girls Division 3 race.
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