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Beach athletes
run at Stanford
By Alisha Gomez
On-line Forty-Niner
The Long Beach
State's women's cross country team placed 19th out of 25 teams
and the men's team placed 13th out of 27 teams at the Stanford
Invitational Saturday.
"Last year, the women's team placed 17th out of 21 teams,"
Andy Sythe said, director of cross country and track. "We're
still pretty close to the way we performed last year."
Sythe said that this year's Stanford Invitational was different
for the women because there were significant changes like
the course added on another 1,000 meters, making it 3.75 miles
instead of 3.1 miles.
For the men's team, this year was better than the last, according
to Sythe.
"We took 15th place out of 18 teams last year,"
Sythe said, "so I think that taking 13th out of 27 teams
this year definitely shows a lot of improvement."
Sythe said the weather was about 90 degrees for the invitational
and he was impressed with all the runners because they ran
decent times under such conditions.
The Beach's top women's finisher was sophomore Drea Palacio,
who ran the course in 23:16, placing 70th overall. Following
her was sophomore teammates Molly Roche' with 23:45, coming
in 94th overall, and Sharon Burnett, who came in 23:52, placing
100th in the invitational.
For the men, sophomore Brian Stehmeier was the first LBSU
runner to finish with a time of 26:37, placing 49th overall.
Last year Stehmeier placed 103rd with a time of 28:05. His
time at the Stanford Invitational was his lifetime best by
11 seconds, according to Sythe.
Arturo Garcia, a freshman, was the second placer for the Beach
with a time of 26:41 and finished in 55th place overall. Teammate
Aaron Durham finished the course in 27:23 and placed 85th
overall.
LBSU's Brian Robles did not run at the invitational due to
problems with his knee. Sythe said that Robles waited up until
race warm-ups Saturday to see if he would run, but he was
still in too much pain and not ready to race.
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