CORONA, Calif. — Long Beach State opened the 2026 cross country season Saturday morning with a runner-up finish from the men and a seventh-place showing from the women at the Mark Covert Classic at Green River Golf Club.<\/p>\n
The Beach placed three runners among the top seven of the men’s 8K and finished with 59 points, just five behind team champion Cal State Fullerton. Long Beach State recorded a combined team time of 2:07:38 and an average of 25:32 among their five scoring runners.<\/p>\n
Cameron Gill<\/a> led the Beach across the finish line, placing third overall in 25:12.4. Miles Jones<\/a> followed closely in fifth with a time of 25:16.6, while Cameron Rhone<\/a> completed the team’s top-seven trio by finishing seventh in 25:20.7.<\/p>\n Juan Flores<\/a> was Long Beach State’s fourth scorer, placing 21st in 25:37.0. Jonah Vasquez<\/a> rounded out the scoring five in 36th with a time of 26:10.9, giving the Beach a scoring gap of 59 seconds.<\/p>\n Ethan Barok<\/a> placed 54th in 26:45.3, and Brandon Day<\/a> completed the men’s lineup with an 86th-place time of 28:01.6.<\/p>\n The Long Beach State women finished seventh in the 6K with 167 points. The Beach combined for a team time of 1:51:21, an average of 22:17 and a scoring gap of 1:42.<\/p>\n Brooke Willoughby<\/a> paced the women with a 25th-place finish, covering the course in 21:30.1. Darcy Ray<\/a> crossed the line four places later in 29th at 21:40.7.<\/p>\n Kendall Bawden<\/a> was the third Beach runner to finish, placing 41st in 22:02.6. Sharice Laygo<\/a> recorded a time of 22:55.9 to finish 65th, while Elisa Rodriguez<\/a> completed the scoring lineup in 69th at 23:11.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORONA, Calif. — Long Beach State opened the 2026 cross country season Saturday morning with a runner-up finish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-455887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}