La Verne’s Alex Forbess, junior, battles it out with his only competition, Eric Kleinsasser from Occidental, across a dirt straightaway at Prado Park on Saturday. Forbess made his fellow Leopard teammates proud with a second place finish overall in the SCIAC Cross Country Championships, earning First-Team All-SCIAC with his impressive finish of the eight kilometer race with a final time of 25:45.66. / photo by Mitchell Aleman