West Valley Preview - Boys Results
Race Winners
Granada’s boys continued the school’s winning streak for the day taking the team title in all three races and giving Granada a perfect 6-win meet record.
Austin Ledgerwood (ECR) and Juan Alcala (Granada Hills) lead the charge through the ’switchbacks’ in the Varsity race at the 1st league matchup of the season at Pierce.
Three runners quickly took control of the race, Austin Ledgerwood (ECR), Juan Alcala (GH) and James Lopez (Cleveland). The trio led the race through 1 1/2 miles, changing leads multiple times. On the 2nd pass through the ‘switchbacks’ James Lopez surged ahead, churning out negative splits at both 2 and 2.87 miles AND running the fastest final .87 miles on the day to win the race in convincing style.
James Lopez (ecr) takes the first league win of the season in the Varsity race at the West Valley Preview meet..
Ledgerwood took 2nd and Max Liberman (ECR) finished strong in 3rd. Juan Alcala was the front-runner for Granada, taking 4th with a course PR of 17:33.3. Harrison Nguyen (Cleveland) took 2 1/2 minutes off his previous course PR to place 5th in 17:35.0. Mateo Glass (ECR) was the fastest 10th grader on the day with a 6th place finish in 17:51.5.
Best times by Grade
Mateo Glass was the fastest sophomore on the day and finished in 6th place at the West Valley Preview meet on August 26th at Pierce College.
Granada Hill’s Ryan Mittlestadt leads the boys JV race up Chalk Hill on his way to winning. Jonah Gensler of ECR, close behind, took 2nd place.
*Finish times provided by EMT
**Pace based on course length of 2.87 miles.
