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THIS WEEK IN TOROS CROSS COUNTRY
Sept.29 Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, CA
WOMEN HEAD NORTH TO STANFORD
The Cal State Dominguez Hills women's cross-country squad will
head up north this weekend to compete at the Stanford Invitational
in Palo Alto.
HEAD COACH DEANN SCHLOBOHM
Coach Schlobohm begins her fifth season as head coach of the
CS Dominguez Hills Cross Country team. Last season, the Toros
finished seventh in the CCAA and took an eleventh place finish at
the NCAA Division II Regional Championships. Scholbohm started the
Toros Cross Country program from scratch in 1997.
TOROS AT RIVERSIDE
The Toros were among 25 programs and 265 runners to compete at
last weekend's UC Riverside Invitational held at the UC Riverside
campus. CSUDH took a 14th place finish with a total time of
1:42:22.0, an average time of 20:28.4 and a total point score of
363. The Toros finished above top Division I programs in
Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount. CSUDH also finished in the top
three among CCAA squads, beating out Cal Poly Pomona and CS San
Bernardino programs and behind Cal State LA and UC San Diego, a
good sign for the CCAA championships coming up in four weeks. The
Anteaters of UC Irvine took the meet with a total point score of
41, time of 1:34:40.0 and average time of 18:56.
D'AMICO HAS STRONG MEET, AGAIN
Senior Cambria D'Amico (N. Torrance HS) continued her streak
for being the first Toro to cross the finish line. The Torrance
native clocked a time of 19:15.0, her second best time of the
season and a 21st place finish out of 265 runners.
CS DOMINGUEZ HILLS SEES NEW FACES IN PACK
Not only did the Toros regulars have a strong meet, some new
faces were in the Toros pack. Sherron Rhetta (West LA CC), Nina
Onwubere and Peace Udechukwa (Inglewood HS) helped to push the
Toros to their finish this past weekend. Rhetta finished with a
time of 24:48.0, Onwubere clocked a time of 25:46.0 and Udechukwa
finished at 25:54.o. The Toros core finished with D'Amico,
clocking a time of 19:15.0, junior Victoria Flores (Montebello HS)
checking in at 20:07.0, sophomore Aracne Hernandez (Bellflower HS)
finishing at 20:41.0, freshman Yosie Castillo (Bellflower HS)
registering a time of 20:51.0 and junior Wendy Vallejo (John
Marshall HS) stopping watches at 21:28.0. |
