Mt. San Antonio Dominates 9th Straight SCC Men's Cross Country Title
Complete South Coast Conference Team/Individual Results
For the second year in a row, Mt. San Antonio College placed at least the first four runners in winning the South Coast Conference Men's Cross Country Championship meet on Friday at the 4-mile, Palos Verdes Park course. It was the Mounties ninth straight conference team championship and 23rd crown in SCC's history.
Individual champion Austin Ledgerwood (22:46.8), Jonathan Pfeiffer, Jonathan Aguilar, and Landen Breckner occupied the first four places for the Mounties and only El Camino's Stephen Hansen's fifth place showing prevented a second straight "perfect 15 score" for Mt. SAC. The Mounties once again populated the All-SCC Top 14 with 10 racers overall (five on the First and Second Teams).
The Mounties settled for 16 points with Long Beach City College taking second and Cerritos third.
Mt. SAC's streak of having the individual champion and runner-up is now at three straight SCC finals meets. This year's runner-up Pfeiffer placed sixth as a freshman and is a 2-time, All-SCC racer. First-place Ledgerwood crossed the finish line 26 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.
You have to go back to 2014 for the last time another school had the conference individual champion in El Camino's Teddy Kassa.
Long Beach's Riki Moscoso placed seventh to become the first Vikings All-SCC First Team runner in 15 years (the last was second-place Alberto Espinoza in 2007).
Cerritos top racer was All-SCC Second Teamer Jose Garcia in ninth. Pasadena City's Etienne Deleage was 29th for the Lancers top finisher, East Los Angeles' Jonathan Gutierrez scored 26th to top the Huskies and Arturo DeJesus paced LA Harbor in 40th.
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mt. San Antonio 16, 2. Long Beach CC 68, 3. Cerritos 88, 4. El Camino 113, 5. Pasadena CC 122, 6. East Los Angeles 141, 7. LA Harbor 172.
2022 All-SCC Team
2022 ALL-SOUTH COAST CONFERENCE TEAM
FIRST TEAM
| 1 | Austin Ledgerwood | 
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Mt. SAC | 22:46.8 | |
| 2 | Jonathan Pfeiffer |
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Mt. SAC | 23:12.7 | |
| 3 | Jonathan Aguilar |
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Mt. SAC | 23:13.2 | |
| 4 | Landen Breckner |
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Mt. SAC | 23:26.5 | |
| 5 | Stephen Hansen | 
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El Camino | 23:31.7 | |
| 6 | Elijah Ocegueda |
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Mt. SAC | 23:32.0 | |
| 7 | Riki Moscoso | 
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Long Beach | 23:36.9 | |
| SECOND TEAM | |||||
| 8 | Jose Garcia | 
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Cerritos | 23:39.9 | |
| 9 | Noah Flores |
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Mt. SAC | 23:42.4 | |
| 10 | Edgar Hebmann |
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Mt. SAC | 23:49.3 | |
| 11 | David Montoya |
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Mt. SAC | 23:55.5 | |
| 12 | Dominic Marino |
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El Camino | 23:58.5 | |
| 13 | Andrew Oseguera |
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Mt. SAC | 24:07.4 | |
| 14 | Russel Mercado |
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Mt. SAC | 24:07.6 | |
Release by Robert Lewis, SCC SID