Personal Bests Highlight UC Riverside Invitational

RIVERSIDE, Calif --- Lilit Arakelyan and Elijah Stenberg paced the Matadors once again at the UC Riverside Invitational at the UCR Ag Ops Course hosted by the Highlanders on Saturday morning. The CSUN men finished in 11th place in the 8k while the CSUN women finished in 21st place in the 6k.

The men finished with an average time of 24:55 while the women finished with a time of 21:59.

MEN
Stenberg's time of 24:39.8 is his personal best and is good enough for seventh fastest in school history. He finished in 44th place. Thomas Achten set a personal best as well. His time of 24:40.8 hits the mark for the eighth fastest time in school history. He finished right behind Stenberg at 45th place.

Camilo Torres followed Stenberg. His time of 24:42.2 was enough for him to reach 49th overall in the event.

Senior Cesar Cuevas slotted in at 60th with a time of 25:22.4. Sophomore Darrick Jacob, Jr. obtained a new personal record today as well, he finished 25:19.9, good for 112th place. He broke his old best set at the Waves Invitational just two weeks ago.

Sophomore Diego Rodriguez became the fifth male to reach a personal best today. His time of 25:33.7 held steady at 132nd place. Senior Ramiro Mateos rounded out the seven. He finished with a time of 25:43.6 and was placed at 155th.

San Francisco finished first overall with a score of 33. CSUN tallied 282 and was 11th, right behind UC Santa Cruz who scored 276.

WOMEN
Arakelyan, the junior, set a personal best and the sixth fastest time in Matador history. Her time of 21:29.7 was good enough for 67th. Senior Ami Jacobsen crossed the finish line with a time of 21:36.4, a personal best for her and the seventh fastest in school history. She finished in 79th place.

Finishing third out of the CSUN women was junior Nadia Munoz. Munoz scored a time of 21:58.6 at 123rd place, becoming the third woman to post a PR today.

Junior Brianna Torres joined in on the personal best action. She recorded a time of 22:11.1, good for 139th place.

Finishing fifth for CSUN was Sakura Divecchio, the senior from Alhambra. Divecchio had a time of 22:39.0, and 179th place overall.

Yadira Arnold broke a personal best for herself as well. Her time of 22:41.6 broke her previous mark set two weeks ago at the Kim Duyst Twilight. She got 181st. Senior Savannah Ganter rounded out the top CSUN seven with a time of 22:44.7. She got 182nd.

USF won the women's event as well, as the Dons scored 45 points in the 6k. CSUN finished 21st with 530 points.

ACCORDING TO COACH JASON ZARB-COUSIN
"Really happy with our effort today. We had six women and four men run personal best times, and improved our team average time by 12 seconds on the women's side and four seconds on the men's side. We had a plan coming in to be aggressive in the second half of the race and we executed on that. We get another crack at this course in 3 weeks so excited to get back to work."

UP NEXT
CSUN returns to UC Riverside on October 18th for the Highlander Classic. Race times are yet to be finalized.

Personal Bests Highlight UC Riverside Invitational

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Players Mentioned

Thomas Achten

Lilit Arakelyan

Yadira Arnold

Cesar Cuevas

Sakura Divecchio

Savannah Ganter

Darrick Jacob, Jr.

Ramiro Mateos

Nadia Munoz

Diego Rodriguez

Elijah Stenberg

Brianna Torres

Camilo Torres