Harriers have strong showing in elite Mt. SAC meet
Looking to peak at the right time in the race for a CIF championship, local cross country teams had strong showings Saturday at the 64th Annual Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational meet held at the college campus in Walnut. Mira Costa’s girls team had an impressive 7th–place finish in the Division 1 & 2 Sweepstakes race, one of many races at the event that includes more than 20,000 competitors to make it the largest cross country invitational meet in the nation. Mira Costa’s Kelli Sugimoto placed 10th in the highly-competitive Division 1 & 2 Sweepstakes race at the Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational. File photo Kelli Sugimoto placed 10th for the Mustangs completing the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, two seconds. Other Mira Costa runners included Jenna Tong (30th, 18:37), Abby Hong (61st, 19:23), Vivien Cherrette (66th, 19:32), Sarah Locke-Henderson (70th, 19:39), Lauren Inouye (87th, 20:05) and Christine Inouye (88th, 20:08). Redondo coach Bob Leetch opted to have his boys and girls teams compete in the Division 2 category, using the meet as a tune-up for the final Bay League meet to be hosted by West on Thursday, Nov. 3 beginning at 1:30 p.m. Saturday’s race also gave the Sea Hawk…
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