With the Cerritos College men's track and field team sending many of their runners to the Triton Invitational at UC San Diego over the weekend, the team saw several strong performances come through. The Falcons, who will compete in the Twilight Open at Cal State Los Angeles on Thursday and then host the Cerritos Open on Friday, turned in several fine times in multiple events.

The highlight for Cerritos was the 4x400-meter relay race that was dominated by community colleges, who took three of the top four places. The foursome of Jordan Crowdus (Cabrillo HS), Caleb Dunomes (Long Beach Poly HS), Konnor Handy (St. John Bosco HS) and Elijah Jones (Long Beach Jordan HS) recorded one of their best times of the season at 3:18.91, which put them in fourth place out of 15 entries. In the 4x100-meter relay race, Jones, Sebastian Lopez (Downey HS), Te'Quan Chatman (Fort Meyers, FL HS) and Crowdus finished in eighth place with a clocking of 42.82.

In individual races, Lopez came in 13th place out of 56 runners in the 100 meters with a time of 10.83, which was just .01 off his personal best time this season. Chatman, who finished in 10.92, took 16th place and was his best time of the year. Lopez also placed 22nd out of 80 runners in the 200 meters with a time of 22.20. Crowdus registered a personal best time of 49.45 in the 400 meters to come in 14th place out of 40 participants, with Dunomes right behind in 17th place in a time of 49.83, his personal best time of the year.

Joshua Melendez (St. Paul HS) broke the 4:00 mark in the 1500 meters for the first time, as he recorded an 11th place time of 3:58.04. There were 73 runners who took part in the race.

Below is a list of Falcons who competed in the Triton Invitational at UC San Diego.