Bakersfield College runner Cesar Mireles finished third overall and first for the BC men in the Western State Conference championships at Waller Park in Santa Maria on Oct. 28. Mireles finished with a time of 21 minutes, 44 seconds in the four-mile run.
BC’s Eayoall Atsbeha finished 10th overall with a time of 22:13 and second for BC, and teammates Elliot Blakslee, Chris Sanchez, Amar Singh, Jose Alvares and Jordan Points finished in the top 50.
BC’s men finished fourth as a team in the four-mile run with a score of 119, and Glendale finished first with a 47.
L.A. Valley’s Andrew Salg finished first overall with a time of 21:20.
BC’s Emilley Leming finished ninth overall and first for the BC women in the women’s 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) run. Leming finished with a time of 20:39. BC teammates Lorin Maki, Brenda Serrato Erica Garcia finished in the top 50.
BC’s women finished sixth as a team in the 5k, and Glendale also won the women’s team score with a 22. BC’s Wendy Trochez was not able to compete due to illness, and BC teammate Melinda Magee was also out with shin splints and a possible stress fracture.
Glendale’s Katie Dunn, Justina Sadauskaite, Angelina Gonzalez, Bridgette Fernandez and Rosa Deltoro finished in the top 10.
Dunn finished first overall and first for Glendale women with a time of 19:14.
The next race for the BC men’s and women’s cross country teams is the Southern California championships at Kern County Soccer Park on Nov. 7.