September 22, 2011

Lou Vasquez Meet in Golden Gate Park (below)

 

2011 Men's Cross Country

CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO THE 'HAWK' RUNNERS!!
Thurs Sept 22nd in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park,
the Cross-Country Team competed against 15 Community College Opponents.
In the 2nd event of the year for the Hawks,
Captain Norman Weekes (11th individual overall) led his team to a 4th place finish against some of the finest teams in the State.
American River College w/ all 5 scoring runners in the top ten, completed the 4 mile course in a blistering 1:40:57 or 20:11 min average team pace. 19 points
Las Positas College just behind Sequioas (3rd w/ 105 pts) and Hartnell College (2nd w/ 77 pts)
averaged a team pace of 21:24 and a total 5 runners scoring 1:47:03 w/ 112 points.
19th place Scott Trummer ave. 5 min 19 seconds per mile finished at 21:18
20th place indiv. overall Arthur Ruvalcaba ave. 5 min 20 seconds per mile and finished 21:21
27th Jesse Chestnut 5:23 finished at 21:34
35th place and rounding off LPC's top five point and team times, was Taylor Peissner who averaged 5:27 and finished at 21.49
In addition, Andrew Snow 39th place was just 6 seconds off the coveted 5:30 pace and 22 minute four miler, ran a 22:06 and a 5:31 pace.
Coach Navarro and Coach Robinson are excited about the effort of the whole team so early in the season.
"We are looking forward to our next race, Friday Sept 30th at Crystal Springs in Belmont."
"This course will be the same used for the Nor/Cals, enabling us to experience the hills, meandering trails and foggy conditions"

 

Great start to 2011 Cross Country Season

Las Positas won the Mills Invite beating over ten 4-year colleges.  The team had 20+ men run in the meet and our ladies did well are improving.  Las Positas runs this Thursday in San Franciscoat the Polo Grounds at 3:00. Long sleeve shirts were awarded to the Champions, so Las Positas College men were awarded shirts with Champions written on them. A 3rd place finish in the competitive Crystal Springs race was a plesant surprise and another chance for four LPC Haws to get shirts for being in the top 20 runners out of 150+ runners.

We are currently ranked 3RD in Nor-California (LPC's highest ranking ever) and we are on the move to make it to the State Championships. This is the best and most talented team that we have ever had at LPC and probably the highest ranking team in the college's history!!

TEAM SCORES - MEN

1. LAS POSITAS     5    6   14   15   20  (21) (34) =  60

         NORMAN WEEKES, SCOTT TRUMMER, ARTHUR RUVALCABA, TAYLOR PEISSNER,

         ANDREW SNOW, JESSE CHESTNUT, JOSE BALTAZAR

2. FRESNO PACIFIC = 89

3. WILLIAM JESSUP = 102

4. MERCED = 113

5. HOLY NAMES = 118

6. DE ANZA =120

7. CAL ST. EAST BAY = 157

8. SACRAMENTO = 181

9. SIMPSON (CAL) = 191

10.UC SANTA CRUZ = 248

11. DOMINICAN (CAL) = 309

12. MERRITT = INC.