CROSS-COUNTRY : Santa Rosa Girl Shatters Mt. SAC Course Record
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The Thousand Oaks High boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams posted triple-digit victory margins in the team sweepstakes races of the Mt. San Antonio College Invitational on Saturday, yet were overshadowed by the course-record performance of Santa Rosa sophomore Julia Stamps.
Stamps won the 3,200 meters in the State track and field championships in June, but her time of 16 minutes 58 seconds over the three-mile course was stunning.
Stamps’ time crushed the previous course best of 17:15 set by Fallbrook’s Milena Glusac in 1992 and gave her a 72-second margin of victory over Emily Allison of San Jose Leland.
“I didn’t expect to run this fast,” Stamps said. “I just wanted to come out here and relax and run well and have some fun. I didn’t want to get all nervous about it.”
Thousand Oaks was the pre-meet favorite in the boys’ and girls’ team sweepstakes, and the Lancers lived up to that billing.
The boys--led by the third-place effort of Keith O’Doherty--placed five runners among the first 16 finishers to total 49 points. Carmichael Jesuit was second with 149.
The Thousand Oaks girls, led by individual winner Kim Mortensen, easily won over runner-up Trabuco Hills, 65-172.
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