Canyon Crest, Torrey Pines grab Avocado West cross country honors

Post date: Nov 21, 2019 2:20:34 AM

It might not exactly be accurate to describe it as a changing of the guard, but there was a distinctly new flavor about the team championship picture at Saturday’s Avocado West League Cross Country Championship at Kit Carson Park in Escondido.

For the last five years, La Costa Canyon Coach Bill Vice’s boys and girls teams have run their way to the top of the podium at the league meet. Saturday, Vice’s troops wound up second and third as Canyon Crest, paced by the latest in a string of phenomenal performances by senior Carlie Dorostkar, nipped the Mavericks, 29-35, in the girls’ race while the deep, tightly-packed Torrey Pines boys’ scored 34 points, topping San Marcos (55) and a depleted LCC boys team, despite a fine individual showing by Maverick senior Andy Pueschel. (more)