Ramon, Vallejo Give It the Old 1, 2 : Road racing: Wild Mountain Club teammates are the top finishers in the Independence Day 5K run in Newhall.

Mexicans Juan Ramon and Alfredo Vallejo of the Wild Mountain Runner Track Club made their second stop on a three-race tour of the Southern California road-racing circuit a successful one with a one-two finish in the Independence Day five-kilometer run Saturday in Newhall.

Ramon, 19, timed 14 minutes 54 seconds over the relatively flat course that began in Newhall Memorial Park, wound through the streets of Newhall, and finished on the Hart High track.

Vallejo, 25, finished in 14:56 and was followed by defending champion Peter De La Cerda (15:06) of Adams State College.

Torie Pleasant of the Santa Clarita Valley Runners won the women’s division in 18:50, followed by former UCLA standout Sheila Van Leeuwen (19:02). Darcy Arreola of Nike Coast Athletics, the three-time defending champion, did not run.

The men’s race was a three-man duel for 3,000 meters; Ramon, De La Cerda and Dan Berkeland of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo battled for the lead, with Vallejo and Dave Hartman of Villanova heading the second pack.

The leading trio passed the mile mark in 4:46, but Ramon broke away from De La Cerda and Berkeland shortly before the two-mile mark (9:37).

“I felt good,” said Ramon through Coach Francisco Licea. “I just wanted to run fast. To keep a good pace all the way through.”

De La Cerda, who ran a personal best of 30:12 to finish fourth in the 10,000 meters in the National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics championships in British Columbia in May, figured early in the race that he was going to be hard-pressed to win his second consecutive title.

“(Ramon and Vallejo) both looked pretty relaxed,” De La Cerda said. “And I knew one of them had won the race in Gardena last week.”

De La Cerda, 20, also was suffering from a muscle strain in his lower back, although he said that did not affect his performance.

Vallejo, who won the Gardena 5K in 14:03 last weekend, was content to remain in fourth place for most of Saturday’s race, but when De La Cerda and Berkeland, the NCAA Division II champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, faltered, he surged into second and nearly caught Ramon.

Berkeland finished fourth in 15:18, followed by Mark Laplant (15:47), and Hartman (15:52), Berkeland’s former teammate at Canyon High.

Vallejo and Ramon will run in the Bastille Day 8K next Sunday in Newport Beach, which traditionally has one of the most talent-laden fields in Southern California.

After that, Ramon and Vallejo will head back home to Mexico City and resume training.

There were 601 finishers in Saturday’s race.