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Two top South Pasadena harriers were among top southland runners to advance to this weekend’s state championship meet to be held in Clovis. Abby Errington will be a runner to be reckoned with at the prestigious meet as she placed second at the CIF division 4 championship meet with a new school record time of 16.28.6
Errington will be joined by her teammates as the team also qualified with a third place finish. It will be the third time in row that the girls have advanced as a team to the state meet.
In the boys sector, standout Keeran Murray also advanced to the championship event with a 13th pace finish, but the team failed to advance by a narrow 4 point margin.
CIF SS Finals results posted by coach Michael Parkinson
2023 CIF SS D4 Cross Country Championships MtSAC flat/fast Rain Course 3.0 miles (might be 2.98 miles)
SoPas Girls 3rd 118 pts 90:18 team time (#2 all- time SoPas) BEST TEAM PLACE all-time SoPas boys or girls, 3rd time in a row qualifying team for State
2nd ABBY ERRINGTON 16:28.6 (17 sec PR, NEW SCHOOL RECORD, #9 girl in State all divisions and #4 in D4 in State, best place in CIF D4 in school history xc)
9th Saidbh Byrne 17:35.5 (9 sec PR, #5 all-time SoPas, #2 all-time junior, currently ranked 19th in D4 State this year)
24th Sofia Humphrey 18:14.6
35th Chloe Koo 18:39.9
52nd Rose Vandevelde 19:18.8(12th all-time sophomore SoPas)
62nd Amada Cortes 19:41.5
86th Alice Rowley 20:47.5
2023 CIF SS D4 Cross Country Championship on MtSAC flat/fast Rain Course 3.0 miles (possibly 2.98 miles)
SoPas Boys 8th 177 points(4 pts away from 7th) and a team time of 77:09.4 a probable NEW SCHOOL RECORD team time for 3 miles
Usual #3 gets tripped/trampled at the start and is last at 50m, bravely works his way back to 4th man only to be gassed at the end. This start is supposed to be called back but official doesn’t see it.
13th KEERAN MURRAY 14:53.6(42 sec PR , #3 all- time SoPas[#4 if we count Andrew Villapudua’s Covid time trial of 14:49 in 2020, Michael Parkinson 14:32 1979, Sam Pons 14:18 2009]and Individual State Meet qualifier)
16th MICHAEL SCARINCE 14:58.2 (12 sec PR, NEW FRESHMAN SCHOOL RECORD, #5 all-time SoPas, #2 freshman 3 mile time in the State this year and #3 Freshman 3 mile time in the NATION this year)
44th ADAM RUIZ 15:39.6 (36 sec PR, #12 all-time junior SoPas)
53rd ETHAN KUNG 15:46.5 (53 sec PR, #15 all-time junior SoPas)
59th NOAH ALDANA 15:51.5 (10 sec PR, #20 all-time junior SoPas)
75th Jarvis Kikekawa-Fraser 16:18.1 (3 sec off PR)
76th KALLEAN BEEBE READ 16:18.7 (2 sec off PR) Top 5 PR by 42, 12, 36, 53, and 10 seconds
