The Los Alamitos Griffins ran away with the Sunset League Championships in dominating fashion on Nov. 2.
The Griffins were a perfect six for six winning the Frosh/Soph, JV and Varsity races for both boys and girls. Along with their 6 team championships the Griffins took home four of the six individual league championships. Over the last three seasons the Griffins have won sixteen of eighteen league championships.
The varsity boys led by seniors Jon Jon Rosenthal and Felix Gonzales running in the 15:50’s over the 3 mile course had the closest race of the day. The Griffins pulled away from Edison HS in last 100 yards to win the title by 2 points 41-43.
Not to be outdone the Griffin Varsity Girls had a great battle with Fountain Valley as juniors Jean Sullivan and Ava Faris turned in personal records running 18:20’s to put Fountain Valley away by 3 points 38-41.
The JV boys took domination to a higher level placing the first fourteen runners in the race – winning with a perfect score of 15. The boys were led by Matthew Ung and Landon Haas.
Again, nearly as perfect were the JV girls who took eight of the top ten spots– led by juniors Shiloh Templeton and Maria Halfhill. The Frosh/Soph boys kept the party going by sweeping the first 3 places behind great performance by sophomores Michael Sandoval and James Fayette.
Finally, the Frosh/Soph girls sealed the deal on the most dominant League Finals in Los Al history just missing a perfect score by taking the first four places led by sophomores Chrysti Takayesu and Julia Muniz.
To finish off a great day Matthew Ung, Olivia Velasco, Michael Sandoval and Chrysti Takayesu captured the individual League Champion awards. League Finals were a great finish to the regular season which saw the Griffin boys team win the “Sweepstakes” award for top team at the Bell Gardens Invitational along with the Griffin girls team winning the Sweepstakes award at three invitationals this season. Both Griffin Varsity teams will look for big races out in Riverside this Friday at the CIF Championship Prelims.