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September 11, 2009

Men’s Cross Country:

Vikings off to great start with pair of top-five team finishes

The Long Beach City College men’s cross country team totaled 80 points to cruise to a third-place finish out of eight teams at the Palomar College Invitational on Friday.

The Vikings earned three top-15 finishes with freshman Edwin Rodriguez leading the way in seventh place. He cleared the course at Guajome Park in Vista with a time of 22.23.

Not far behind in 10th place was freshman Javier Ramos (22:38) and in 12th was freshman Charles Brewer (22:46).

Other times for LBCC at the Palomar Invitational:
Kyle Minor (Fr.), 28th, 24:02
Marquise Davis (Fr.), 29th, 24:09
David Farreugia (Fr.), 31st, 24:13
Alfredo Velez (Fr.), 33rd, 24:25
Doug Curran (So.), 34th, 24:29
Joshua Farris (Fr.), 37th, 24:57
Brian Griffin (Fr.), 40th, 25:15
Jonathan Smith (Fr.), 42nd, 25:30
Myles Platt (Fr.), 44th, 25:35
Denny Hernandez (Fr.), 50th, 26:09
Christian Mosqueda (Fr.), 54th, 26:37
Agustin Rangel (Fr.), 63rd, 27:53

Host Palomar won the men’s event with 37 points while Palomar’s Alexander Avilez was first with a time of 21:52.

On September 4, Long Beach opened up the 2009 season with a fourth-place showing out of 12 teams at the Ventura Invitational. LBCC scored 104 points thanks to four top-25 individual finishes.

Rodriguez once again topped the Vikings with his sixth-place finish. He cleared the four-mile course at Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura with a time of 23:05.

Curran was 19th at 23:46, followed by Brewer in 22nd (24:00), and Ramos in 24th (24:02).

Other times for LBCC at the Ventura Invitational:
Alex Eastly (Fr.), 41st, 24:47
David Farreugia (Fr.), 47th, 25:04
Kyle Minor (Fr.), 59th, 25:48
Marquise Davis (Fr.), 60th, 25:51
Alfredo Velez (Fr.), 64th, 26:02
Rogelio Velasquez (Fr.), 67th, 26:09
Brian Griffin (Fr.), 74th, 26:42
Denny Hernandez (Fr.), 81st, 27:17
Jonathan Smith (Fr.), 95th, 28:24
Myles Platt (Fr.), 99th, 28:35
Christian Mosqueda (Fr.), 104th, 28:55
Adrian Silva (Fr.), 112th, 29:56
Agustin Rangel (Fr.), 122nd, 31:19

Los Angeles Trade Tech College won the men’s event with 57 points while El Camino’s Jose Lezama was first with a time of 21:35.

Both the LBCC men’s and women’s teams will be in action on Saturday (Sept. 19) at the Orange Coast Classic at Fairview Park in Costa Mesa.