By Sebastian Moore
and Vincent Nguyen
The Review
The South Pasadena boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams headed into the first Rio Hondo League meet of the season on the back of an impressive showing at the Woodbridge Invitational.
Led by freshman Michael Scarince, the Tigers’ boys’ team won the first league race of the season, while the girls finished second behind La Cañada at Lacy Park on Sept. 21.
Scarince finished the race in 16 minutes, 24 seconds, breaking the freshman school record and lifting the Tigers’ over second place La Cañada 24-50. Monrovia (third, 84 points), San Marino (fourth, 106), Temple City (fifth, 126) and Blair (sixth, 172) rounded out the standings. South Pasadena boys’ cross-country is currently ranked sixth in the CIF Southern Section Division 4 polls.
South Pasadena sophomore Kai Tilley (second, 16:27), junior Noah Aldana (fourth, 16:31), senior Jarvis Kikekawa-Fraser (eighth, 16:46) and junior Adam Elsayed (ninth, 16:47) finished as the top five runners for the Tigers.
In the girls’ race, Tigers junior Abby Errington came in second with a time of 17:27, behind Spartans junior Maya DeBrouwer who clocked in at 17:16 for first. The La Cañada girls’ team, the No. 2-ranked squad in the CIF Southern Section Division 4 polls, finished ahead of South Pasadena 27-35 in the meet, with Monrovia (third, 97), Temple City (fourth, 114) and San Marino (fifth, 118) closing out the standings.
South Pasadena junior Saidbh Byrne (fourth, 18:33), junior Chloe Koo (seventh, 19:37), junior Sofia Humphrey (10th, 19:45) and sophomore Rose Vandevelde (12th, 20:00) came in as the top five racers for the Tigers, which are ranked No. 4 in the Division 4 poll.
The Tigers will head over to the Clovis Invitational next week where they will get a chance to familiarize themselves with the site of the CIF State Championship set in November.
First published in the September 29 print issue of the South Pasadena Review.
