The largest local Cross Country meet is the Mt. Carmel/Asics Invitational held at Morley Field in Balboa Park. There are two divisions: D1 is for larger schools, D2 is for smaller ones. In each division, there are eight races by gender and grade level. Over 90 percent of the course is over the Footlocker National Championship Route. It’s a big early test over some significant hills. Coronado, of course, was in the smaller division, with races starting at noon. All races were over the same three-mile course.
For the girls, the top two performances were by Morgan Maske in the girls’ Junior race and Gwynne Letcher in the girls’ Sophomore race.
Maske placed fourth in her event at 20:28; Letcher also placed fourth at 20:53. For the boys, the top performances (under 19 minutes) were by Nathan Ayan, who placed 17th in the Junior race with 17:43, Jack Letcher, who placed 26th in the combined Senior/Invite with 17:59, Vincent Russo (25th in Junior race with 18:20), and Andrew Buck with 19:15 in the Junior Race.
Cross country’s next meet will be the Downey Classic at Morley Field this Friday. Next week, league competition starts with an Eastern League Cluster on Tuesday at Morley.
