"It hurts," said Peter Anderson.

With those words Anderson, the Cabrillo High running coach, won Sunday's Park-to-Park 8-Mile Run in Lompoc.

Anderson, 45, led from start to finish, clocking 46 minutes and 15 seconds on the fast course from Miguelito Canyon Park on the south side of the Lompoc Valley to La Purisima Mission on the north side.

Anderson, who has been running 50 miles a week with the CHS boys, got some speed work Saturday while trying to keep an eye on the progress of the Conquistadores as they swept to victory at the prep Ojai Cross Country Invitational. There, CHS/s Michael Coe, Colin Hacker, Jeff Monteleone and Miguel Ortiz went 1-through-4 at the front of the pack.

"I'm barely varsity on that team," Anderson quipped.

The coach was definitely the cream of the crop Sunday, finishing well ahead of second place Mickey Rowe/s 48:40. "Well, I was faster than last year," said Rowe, a 41-year-old UC Santa Barbara teacher who lives in Lompoc.

Pauline Schneekloth of Buellton paced the women in 60:34. "I/m feeling all of my 48 years," she grimaced.

Twenty seven stalwarts finished the run, which was organized by race directors Kathi Froemming and Neil Smoots.

The event was the last on the calendar year for the Lompoc Valley Distance Club. Next up for runners in the Lompoc Valley7 Lompoc Parks and Recreation/s Turkey Trot in November at River Park.

SBBL Baseball

The 2005 Lompoc Honda Bandits finished the Santa Barbara Baseball League regular season with their 18th straight victory, 12-1, over the Lompoc Titans, and the No. 1 seed in the playoffs to begin Sunday.

The Bandits whose nucleus includes three players from the 1998 squad which last claimed the SBBL title, Larry Jacinto, Casey McNamee and player/manager Mike Bennett, finish 18-2.

"This is our best in seven years," said a proud Bennett Sunday. "This is definitely the best we/ve ever done in my three years."

The Bandits pounded out 14 hits Sunday with Jake Marshall and Cameron Luna booming triples as well as a single apiece, McNamee and Butch Finney notching a double and single each, Ray Hirzel clouting a triple and Ivan Enriquez two singles.

On the mound four pitchers, Bennett, Marshall, Jason Green and R.J. Jazo, allowed the cellar-dwelling Titans, who finish 2-18, just three hits.

The Bandits will meet the fourth place Santa Barbara Giants, 12-8, next Sunday at 10 a.m. at Santa Barbara High in the first game of a best 2-of-3 semifinal. Bennett nominated big Ryan Day to open on the mound.

Later in the day on the same field the Goleta Diablos will meet the Santa Barbara A/s in the other semifinal.

Elsewhere in the SBBL Lompoc Club Ario won by forfeit over the Santa Barbara Cubs to finish 8-12.

September 19, 2005