Miller's third place paces Pirates to fifth at 3C2A State Meet
FRESNO -- Orange Coast College sophomore runner, Liberty Miller, saved her best performance for last after finishing third overall at the 3C2A Women's Cross Country State Championships on Saturday at Woodward Park, helping her Pirate squad to a fifth-place overall team finish.
Miller, who trailed L.A. Harbor's Sherlyn Gomez at the one-mile and two-mile marks, stayed with her and edged her at the finish line for a third-place time of 18 minutes, 37.1 seconds, a half-second ahead of Gomez's time of 18:37.6. Only Clovis' Rhiannon Walker (18:22.9) and Saddleback's Danna Ibarra Canales (18:33.5) crossed the finish line ahead of Miller out of 172 state-qualifying runners.
Coast finished its outstanding 2024 campaign fifth in the state with 248 points, behind only San Diego Mesa (85), Clovis (125), Mt. San Antonio (130) and American River (245), with Hartnell (266), Moorpark (278), Riverside (280), College of the Canyons (289) and College of the Sequoias (311) rounding out the top-10.
Sophomore Luna Centeno cracked the top-50 in the state with a 36th-place time of 20:21.3, followed by fellow Pirates, Mariana Hernandez (20:53.9), Belle Baker (20:54.3), and Maloni Hernandez (22:50.9).
