{"id":3275,"date":"2009-09-19T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-xc-gets-off-on-right-foot\/"},"modified":"2009-09-19T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T05:01:00","slug":"lbcc-xc-gets-off-on-right-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-xc-gets-off-on-right-foot","title":{"rendered":"LBCC XC Gets Off On Right Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With two top-five finishes in the first two meets of the season, LBCC’s men’s cross country team is off to an exciting start. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Vikings opened up the season with a fourth-place finish out of 12 teams at the Ventura Invitational on September 4th. LBCC scored 104 points thanks to four top-25 individual placings.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Freshman Edwin Rodriguez topped the Vikings with a time of 23:05 for the four-mile course, giving him a 6th place finish.  <\/span>Doug Curran (Soph) was 19th at 23:46, followed by freshmen Charles Brewer in 22nd (24:00) and Javier Ramos in 24th<\/sup> (24:02).<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Trade Tech College won the men’s event with 57 points, while El Camino’s Jose Lezama was first with a time of 21:35.<\/p>\n

Long Beach topped that performance with a third-place finish last Friday out of eight teams at the Palomar College Invitational.<\/p>\n

The men earned a total of 80 points, with Rodriguez again leading the Vikings at 22:23 for a 7th place finish.  <\/span>Ramos (10th) and Brewer (12th) were both less than a minute behind, with times of 22:38 and 22:46, respectively.<\/p>\n

Host Palomar won the men’s event, with 37 points, while Palomar’s Alexander Avilez finished first with a time of 21:52.<\/p>\n

Both the LBCC men’s and women’s teams will be in action on Saturday, September 19th at the Orange Coast Classic at Fairview Park in Costa Mesa.<\/p>\n

From LBCC reports<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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