Mt. SAC Invitational The Nation's Largest High School Cross-Country Meet! October 24-25, 2008 at Mount San Antonio College, Walnut CA Athletes crank up heat before temps rocket upward Saugus girls set course record; Hasay to #2 on all-time list; Gedyon sets soph CR Saturday Boys Team Story | Saturday Individual story | Saturday short summary | Friday | Donna on the Side

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Saugus established a new Mt. SAC course team time record with a sizzling 88:18 clocking (17:40 avg for the top five) in rolling to the Girls Team
Sweepstakes win. Fans also couldn't believe their eyes by what they saw (upper right photo) in the Boys Team Sweepstakes Race as a set of
twins -- Dana Hills' Ryan and Tyler Valdes and Redondo Union's Cody and Simon Schmidt -- were a visual oddity at the forefront of the race.

 
Athletes cranked up the heat
before temps rocketed upward
Saugus girls set course CR; Hasay moves to #2 on all-time
individual list while Gedyon sets 10th-grade course record;
Alaskan Trevor Dunbar wins handily.

By Rich Gonzalez, DyeStat/ESPN RISE

     (WALNUT, Ca.) -- Saugus High School's record-setting girls cross-country team threw down the most dominant performance in state history on Saturday,
outscoring THE ENTIRE Girls Sweepstakes field to win the featured race at the 61st Annual Mt. SAC Invitational. The Centurions, who arrived here ranked
as the #2 team in the nation, threw down their best argument yet for the top spot by crushing the team-time record on the state's most historic course with a
stunning 88:18 (17:40 avg) clocking!

      To put their performance into even better perspective, if you score all other runners from all schools against Saugus in that race, the Centurions scored
just 24 points while the top five remaining runners from all schools combined scored 31.

      But Saugus wasn't the only contingent making updates to the record book on the meet's closing day. Dana Hills, which finished a distant second to
Saugus, scorched the trails as well to record the #3 team time in meet history (trailing only the 2008 and 2007 squads from Saugus) while Torrey Pines of
San Diego recorded the fourth-fastest team time in meet history,

      On the boys' side, Dana Hills captured the top spot in a talent-saturated Team Sweesptakes Race, smoking a 77:10 team time -- the third-fastest in
meet history -- to defeat two nationally ranked squads and a slew of state-ranked opponents.

      Individually, Mission College Prep senior Jordan Hasay moved to second place on the all-time course list with a mind-boggling 16:27 performance to
head up the best girls field in course history as she, Alex Dunne (16:48) and Molly Grabill (16:54) all moved into the top 10 on the all-time course bests list.

      On the boys' side, Alaska's Trevor Dunbar pulled away from his chief rivals during the hills to win the Boys Individual Sweepstakes Race in 14:41, the
top time of the two-day meet. Bakersfield Foothill's Chris Schwartz was second in a lifetime- course best 14:46.  Loyola's Elias Gedyon -- already the
freshman course record holder -- added the sophomore class mark to his collection with a 14:48 sizzler that bettered Southern Californian Michael Haddan's
previous standard. Crescenta Valley's Zack Torres was the weekend's fourth and final sub-15:00 performer, finishing in 14:50.  Camarillo's Heyden Woof
(15:04) moved to third on the all-time sophomore list.

      High temperatures in the mid-afternoon hours prompted meet officials to shorten the race distance by one mile for most of the non-seeded Division I
lower-level action. The local fire marshall then reportedly called for the last two races of the schedule to be cancelled.

Fastest 10 Runners of the Meet

Boys

Time	Runner	Position/Race
14:41	Dunbar, Trevor 2009, Kodiak AK	1 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
14:46	Schwartz, Chris 2009, Foothill Bakersfield CA	2 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
14:48	Gedyon, Elias 2011, Loyola CA	1 @ Mt. SAC B Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
14:50	Torres, Zack 2009, Crescenta Valley CA	3 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
14:57	Schmidt, Cody 2009, Redondo Union CA	2 @ Mt. SAC B Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
15:00	Ngula, Emmanuel 2009, Vista del Lago CA	4 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
15:02	Zaragoza, Pedro 2009, Lancaster CA	5 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
15:04	Valdes, Tyler 2009, Dana Hills CA	3 @ Mt. SAC B Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
15:04	Wooff, Heyden 2011, Camarillo CA	6 @ Mt. SAC B Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
15:06	Schmidt, Simon 2009, Redondo Union CA	4 @ Mt. SAC B Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008

Girls

Time	Runner	Position/Race
16:27	Hasay, Jordan 2009, Mission San Luis Obispo CA	1 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
16:48	Dunne, Alex 2009, San Clemente CA	2 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
16:54	Grabill, Molly 2011, Rancho Bernardo CA	3 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:05	Tonn, Jessica 2010, Xavier Phoenix AZ	4 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:13	Mahoney, Kaylin 2011, Saugus CA	1 @ Mt. SAC G Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:20	Taylor, Jacque 2010, Casa Grande CA	5 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:27	Morgan, Megan 2010, Torrey Pines CA	2 @ Mt. SAC G Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:34	Hayes, Hillary 2009, Edison CA	6 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:35	Randall, Anne 2009, Saugus CA	3 @ Mt. SAC G Team Sweep CA 10/25/2008
17:36	Miller, Liberty 2010, Simi Valley CA	7 @ Mt. SAC G Indi Sweep CA 10/25/2008

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Day 1 Friday
Above, Day 1 D3-4-5 Sweeps winners Chavez, Williams, Jeanson, Mehra, Lopez and Williamson - Photos John Dye

• Team Recap: Barstow boys, CdM girls fire off message to rivals; Jeanson paces 1-2-3 finish in DV team record - Rich Gonzalez Story
• Individual Recap: Day 1 at Mt. SAC "like a box of chocolates"; plenty of gems, surprises, and good backstories - SteveU Story

Index to Content
FRIDAY Division III Boys Coverage index Division III Girls Coverage index Division IV Boys Coverage index Division IV Girls Coverage index Division V Boys Coverage index Division V Girls Coverage index Rich Gonzalez's Friday's recap story on top teams Steve Underwood's Friday's recap story on top individuals John Dye Photo Gallery: Friday	SATURDAY Divison I Boys Coverage index Divison I Girls Coverage index Divison II Boys Coverage index Divison II Girls Coverage index Rich Gonzalez's Saturday's recap story on top teams Saturday's recap story on top individuals (Steve Underwood) John Dye Photo Galleries - Saturday: - Boys Team - Boys Individual - Girls Team - Girls Individual Bill Leung: Sweepstakes Races Doug Speck:Top Tens from Regular Sat Varsity races	Donna on the Side
PREVIEWS  VIDEO BREAKDOWN OF THE MT. SAC COURSE! Daily race time schedule - Schools entered - Race-by-race entries Meet preview of top individuals/teams (SteveU/Gonzalez) Meet predictions of top girls individuals (Mike Kennedy) Meet nostalgia from 1983; '88; '93 (Doug Speck)