Posted: Oct 28, 2023

Five Schools Represented On First Team; Mt. SAC Wins 3rd South Coast Women's Cross Country Title In Row

Mt. San Antonio won its third straight SCC championship on Friday (photo by Richard Quinton).

Five different schools were represented on First Team led by Mt. San Antonio College's Aariana Amezcua first-place finish as the Mounties won their consecutive South Coast Conference Women's Cross Country Championship race on Friday morning. The Mounties scored 29 points to win the SCC meet held at Ken Malloy Regional Park in Harbor City.

The freshman Amezcua ran a time of 18 minutes, 14.5 seconds over the 3-mile course and was aided by Ingrid Tamayo's fifth place (19:06.4) and six other Mt. SAC runners who all finished in the top 14. Five scoring Mounties ran less than 20 minutes out of 10 that accomplished that feat.

It was Mt. SAC's 21st SCC women's cross country title.

More of a story was the variety of the All-SCC First Team (first seven finishers) as El Camino's Sequoia Gonzales placed second (18:20.6), East Los Angeles' Marbella Flores was third (18:23.5), Cerritos' Megan Feitz scored sixth (19:08.6) and LA Harbor's Sherlyn Gomez crossed the line in seventh (19:10.1).

ECC's Ami Jacobson was the other First Teamer in racing fourth (18:49.7). Gonzales was the SCC runner-up for the second straight season and a 2-time, All-SCC First Team selection along with Jacobsen (fifth last year) and Feitz (also sixth in 2022).

Final SCC Team Placings/Points: 1. Mt. San Antonio 29, 2. Cerritos, 59, 3. El Camino 80, 4. LA Harbor 113, 5. Long Beach City 122, 6. Pasadena City 141.

Long Beach's top scorer was Lorena Galaviz in 27th (22:05.2), Pasadena's Kayla Ma topped her team in 35th (23:02.4), while Compton was paced by Ryann Crawford in 50th (27:45) out of the 57 total participants.

Aarianna Amezcua

ALL-SCC FIRST TEAM: 1. Amezcua (Mt. SAC), 2. *Gonzales (ECC), 3.*%Flores (ELAC), 4. *Jacobsen (ECC), 5. Tamayo (Mt. SAC), 6. *Feitz (Cerritos), 7. Gomez (LAHC)
ALL-SCC SECOND TEAM: 8. Shandy Moore (Mt. San Antonio), 19:21.7, 9. Tigest Bergman (MSAC) 19:43.6, 10. Ava Cornell (MSAC) 19:53.8, 11. *Brenna Butler (MSAC) 20:05.3, 12. *%Trista Mitchell (MSAC) 20:15, 13. Evelyn Mejia (Cerritos) 20:20.1, 14. *#Gaby Cerrillos (MSAC) 20:33.2.

*2-Time, All-SCC; #-1st Team in 2021; %-Second Team in 2021

Mt. SAC is the 2-time defending 3C2A state champions and will race along with other SCC qualified teams in the SoCal Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 3 at Long Beach's El Dorado East Regional Park.