2008 Woodie Awards
Women take home second place
CROSS COUNTRY: EC ready for the final meet of the year prior to the South Coast Conference Championship.
By: Cristian Vasquez
Issue date: 10/14/04 Section: Sports
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Runners improved their individual times and closed the gap among the top five runners as they prepared to compete in the Mt. SAC Invite Friday at 3 p.m.
The women's team tied for second place with Mt. SAC, earning 67 points while Cerritos took first place with 58 points at the Irvine Invitational. Riverside and Golden West College finished in third and fourth more than 10 points behind EC.
Evelyn Lopez finished seventh place overall and first for EC with a time of 20:38, improving her time from last year at the same invite (21:52).
Second place for EC was Dinora Moran who finished tenth in the overall race; 20:33, followed by Valerie Tucker; 21:06, Cora Webber; 21:10 and Lori Cardenas; 21:14.
The EC athletes had a good start with the runners maintaining their positions strong throughout the race and even closed stronger at the home stretch than they did at Golden West.
"The competition was good," Moran said. "We faced schools like Cerritos and Mt SAC, which are always strong."
EC kept a strong top five group coming in with a 46 second difference between the first and fifth place runners.
That was an eight-second improvement from the previous meet at Golden West where the first and the fifth runners had a 54-second difference.
It was an even better improvement from the Cuesta College Invite, where the time difference was 1:59.
"We're running consistently strong," assistant coach Sean Sheil said. "We need to keep the top five as close as possible."
Despite not having a front-runner, EC keeps placing within the first three positions each race, displaying consistency and strength among the team.
"Without a real front-runner, it gets somewhat hard," Sheil said. "But we have good depth, and depth is more important and that's why we're scoring well."
The team also improved the time gap between its fifth place and eigth place runners, which is something coach Lofgren feels the team needs to desperately improve on.
The women's team tied for second place with Mt. SAC, earning 67 points while Cerritos took first place with 58 points at the Irvine Invitational. Riverside and Golden West College finished in third and fourth more than 10 points behind EC.
Evelyn Lopez finished seventh place overall and first for EC with a time of 20:38, improving her time from last year at the same invite (21:52).
Second place for EC was Dinora Moran who finished tenth in the overall race; 20:33, followed by Valerie Tucker; 21:06, Cora Webber; 21:10 and Lori Cardenas; 21:14.
The EC athletes had a good start with the runners maintaining their positions strong throughout the race and even closed stronger at the home stretch than they did at Golden West.
"The competition was good," Moran said. "We faced schools like Cerritos and Mt SAC, which are always strong."
EC kept a strong top five group coming in with a 46 second difference between the first and fifth place runners.
That was an eight-second improvement from the previous meet at Golden West where the first and the fifth runners had a 54-second difference.
It was an even better improvement from the Cuesta College Invite, where the time difference was 1:59.
"We're running consistently strong," assistant coach Sean Sheil said. "We need to keep the top five as close as possible."
Despite not having a front-runner, EC keeps placing within the first three positions each race, displaying consistency and strength among the team.
"Without a real front-runner, it gets somewhat hard," Sheil said. "But we have good depth, and depth is more important and that's why we're scoring well."
The team also improved the time gap between its fifth place and eigth place runners, which is something coach Lofgren feels the team needs to desperately improve on.