On Saturday in the South Coast Conference Opener at Long Beach City College, the Cerritos College men's track and field team and 11 of their distance runners score points. Three of them came in first place to help the Falcons finish in second place with 133.5 team points out of 10 colleges. The team will now host the Cerritos Open on Friday.

Cerritos excelled in the 3000 meters, as they took the top four places on the day. Robert Guerrero won the event in a time of 8:57.19 and was followed closely by Juan Flores in 8:59.33 and Joshua Morales in 8:59.65, with Joshua Melendez rounding out the top four in a time of 9:00.23. Nikolas Dominguez won the 1500 meters, as he was clocked in 4:13.11, with teammate Noah Addison not far behind in second place at 4:15.81.

The Falcons grabbed four of the top five places in the distance medley, with the quartet of Tyler Villanueva, Terrance Williams, Aiden Vigil and Melendez recoding a winning time of 10:13.82, which was six seconds faster than the second place team of Juan Flores, Konnor Handy, Axel Rebolledo-Ynostros and Morales.

In the field events, Tyler Robinson won the long jump at 6.97 meters, while thrower Francisco Arechiga placed in three events. He took fifth place in the shot put (12.20 meters) hammer (41.22), while he came in sixth in the discus (32.26 meters).