Men's Cross Country Starts New Season At Moorpark Invite
Christopher Camarena ran to 43rd place as the Pasadena City College men's cross country team opened the 2023 season with a ninth place team finish (12 colleges) at the Moorpark Invitational on Friday.
Christopher Camarena ran to 43rd place as the Pasadena City College men's cross country team opened the 2023 season with a ninth place team finish (12 colleges) at the Moorpark Invitational on Friday.
Camarena, a freshman from Burbank High, was the Lancers top racer with a time of 24 minutes, 12.6 seconds over the 4-mile course. The rest of the squad ran in a pack with freshmen Luca Augustyn (Temple City HS) placing 48th (24:36), Sergio De Los Santos Jr. (Mountain View) 52nd (24:50), Samuel Platz (Monrovia) 59th (25:42), and Umar Saleem (La Canada) 63rd (25:58.5) all scoring.
Also racing for PCC were sophomore Jaime Loera (Mountain View) in 72nd (27:04), Aghasi Melkonyan (La Canada) in 74th (27:16), and Colt Reichman (North Hollywood) in 78th (28:44.5).
Cuesta's Anthony Erikson won the individual race in 20:31 while host Moorpark took the team title.
Pasadena, directed by head coach Innocent Egbunike in his seventh season, takes part in the Oxnard Invitational next Friday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m.
