By Tom Saxe -

Palomar College soccer player Johnny Topete has been selected as Pacific Coast Athletic Conference Men’s Athlete of the Week for the week that ended on Sunday.

Topete, a freshman from Orange Glen High School who was the 2007 CIF-San Diego Section Player of the Year, helped keep the Comets alone atop the conference with a three-goal week. Topete, who led the Patriots to the ’07 San Diego Section Division II championship as a senior, scored two goals the previous week in a 4-1 win over North County rival MiraCosta.

Honorable mention for the week went to Southwestern cross country runner Dahir Mohamed, Palomar wrestler Clayton Macfarlane, Southwestern football player Steven Carroll and Palomar football player Matt Christian.

Mohamed, a freshman from Hoover High School, took first place in a 339-runner field at the 62nd Mt. SAC Invitational, which was run in conjunction with the Southern California Preview Meet at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. He covered the 4.0-mile course in 21:10, defeating the second place-finisher, El Camino College’s David Cardona, by 12 sections. Mohamed’s performance led the Jaguars to seventh place out of 37 teams.

Macfarlane, a sophomore from Poway High School, went 4-0 as he led host Palomar to a third-place finish in the Southern California CommunityCollege Dual Match championships. He won by fall in the Comets’ 44-4 win over West Hills (Lemoore campus), by fall in a 38-9 victory over Rio Hondo, by 10-2 in a 21-17 loss to Cerritos and by technical fall in a 30-10 win over Cuesta.

Carroll, a 6-foot-3, 204 pound sophomore from Oceanside High School and a transfer from Palomar, led Southwestern to a wild 51-49 victory over Mt. San Jacito by completingt 30 of 45 passes with one touchdown and one interception for 365 yards.

Christian, a 6-foot-3, 213-pound quarterback from Carlsbad High School and a transfer from Fresno State, returned to the starting lineup for the first time since coming back from a broken throwing hand and helped lead the Comets to a 41-27 victory over Santa Ana with 301 yards in total offense in three quarters. Christian, who quarterbacked Palomar to a 31-3 lead in the second quarter, was 17-for-30 passing with no interceptions and two touchdowns and also rushed for 76 yards on nine carries, all in the first half.