Men's Cross Country Takes 5th Place At South Coast Championships
Yousef Cherqaoui ran in 44th place and teammate Luca Augustyn scored right behind him in 45th in helping the Pasadena City College men's cross country team to a fifth place team finish at the South Coast Conference Championships held Friday at Harbor City's Ken Malloy Regional Park.
Yousef Cherqaoui ran in 44th place and teammate Luca Augustyn scored right behind him in 45th in helping the Pasadena City College men's cross country team to a fifth place team finish at the South Coast Conference Championships held Friday at Harbor City's Ken Malloy Regional Park.
Cherqaoui, a sophomore, ran the 4-mile course in a time of 23 minutes, 56.4 seconds while the freshman Augustyn crossed the line in 24:06.5. Cherqaoui improved his placing slightly from the 2022 race when he finished in 38th.
Eighteen racers from 10-time defending conference champion Mt. San Antonio placed higher than the Lancers, Long Beach City, LA Harbor, East Los Angeles and Compton's top runners in the 99-participant field. The Mounties with 12 All-SCC racers (top 14 earn awards) basically have a monopoly on most of the top runners in the conference.
Also scoring for PCC were Christopher Camarena in 52nd (24:25.3), Umar Saleem in 60th (24:47.1), and Winsor Harmon in 65th (25:24).
Other Lancers finishers were Samuel Platz (66th, 25:24.5), Sergio De Los Santos Jr. (77th, 26:11.4), Colt Reichman (79th, 26:23.8), Jaime Loera (81st, 27:02), and Aghasi Melkonyan (85th, 27:54.4).
Directed by head coach Innocent Egbunike, Pasadena qualifies as a team and will race at the Southern Califonia Championships next Friday, Nov. 3 at Long Beach's El Dorado East Regional Park.
