2018 Best Marks Here And in California

San Diego Section boys’ 2018 best track and field performances through last week’s Mt. San Antonio meet, which was not held on the once-bucolic junior college campus in Walnut, instead moving about 40 miles West to El Camino College in Torrance.

San Diego marks and their rankings in parenthesis are compared below to the best in California, as supplied by Athletic.net.  Listed all-time San Diego marks are for meters, which the U.S. went to in the early 1980’s.

Some of the “all-time” metric performances were bettered by performances measured in yards and feet, such as races from 220 yards to 2 miles, which  are longer than those from 200 meters to 3,200 meters.  The 100-meter distance in decidedly longer than 100 yards, by almost 10 yards.

Girls marks will be published later this week.

 

Event

 

 Name Mark/Place  S.D. All-Time State Leader Mark
100 Meters Christon, Madison :10.58 (3) 11 Hampton, Yucaipa :10.47
Ellis, Mt. Carmel :10.60w NR
200 Meters Christon :21.42 (5) 19 Hampton, Yucaipa :21.21
Ellis :21.44 (6) 22
400 Meters Lippert, La Costa Canyon :47.44 (3) 11* Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Trail :47.12
800 Meters Hurlburt, Coronado 1:54.1 (12) NR Charvet, Brentwood Heritage 1:52.60
1600 Meters Rosenthal, San Diego High Tech 4:13.64 (5) NR Court, Manhattan Beach Mira Costa 4:10.94
3200 Meters Martinez de Pinillos, Cathedral 9:04.41 (7) 19 Anderson, Larkspur Redwood 8:52.74
110 Hurdles Tyler Saikhon, El Centro Southwest :14.57 (11) NR Jackman, Concord Clayton Valley :13.98
300 Hurdles Farmer, Rancho Bernardo :38.30 (7T) NR Jackman :37.47
4×100 Relay Madison :42.59 (25T) NR Moreno Valley Rancho Verde :41.49
4×400 Eastlake 3:25.0 (NR) NR Murrieta Mesa 3:16.22
High Jump Coleman, Granite Hills 6-6 (12T) NR Lee, Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills 7-3
Castin, Rancho Bernardo Grimsman, Folsom Vista del Lago
Pole Vault Ward, San Dieguito 16-1 (3) 2T Guttormsen, Davis 18-2 3/4
Rice, Rancho Bernardo 15-9 (5T) 16T
Sheldon, Mission Hills 15-6 (11) NR
Long Jump Jackson, Eastlake 24-5 ½ (1T) 12T Clemens, Berkeley St. Mary’s 24-5 1/2
Christon, Madison 23-9 ½ (5) NR
Triple Jump Jackson 49-10 ¼ (2) 2 Stevenson, Temecula Great Oak 50-5
Mitchell, Point Loma 47-0 (8T) NR
SHOT PUT Poma, Cathedral 54-2 (25) NR Aviles, Ventura 63-5 1/2
DISCUS Leber, Granite Hills 169-2 (23) NR Aviles 194-1


2018: Oscar Foster, 69, San Diego High’s Big O

Oscar Foster never won an individual scoring championship at San Diego High, but Foster finished his legendary prep career with the San Diego Section record for most points.

Consistent, often brilliant, Foster’s record was testimony to the popular, team player that he was.

Foster passed away recently in Los Angeles at age 69, a victim for at least his last 40 years of internal demons that robbed the friendly, gentle man of his great promise.

A lithe, 6-foot, 7-inch forward, Foster scored 1,766 points in three seasons and 91 games during an era in which the Cavers posted a 77-17 record and won two San Diego Section championships.

“The Big O was an unbelievable player, intimidating and competitive,” remembered Brent Strom, now the pitching coach for the Houston Astros and Foster’s teammate at San Diego High.


Player-of-the-year Foster was joined on 1966-67 all San Diego Section first team by (clockwise from upper left) Morse’s Monroe Nash, Madison’s Steve Rostoker, Kearny’s Russ (Whimpy) Northcutt, and La Jolla’s Steve Haskett.

Foster averaged 14.7 and scored 457 points in 1964-65, his sophomore season, as San Diego, 24-8 overall after being a tied-for-second-place entry in the Eastern League, got hot in the playoffs and defeated Chula Vista, 62-40, in the championship game.

The Cavers were 24-7 in 1965-66, won the third-place game in the playoffs, and Foster averaged 21.4 points and scored 667.

The 29-2 championship team of 1966-67 was beaten only by Long Beach Poly, 67-62, and St. Augustine, 55-53, in the regular season.

Foster averaged 20.6 and scored 642 points and led coach Bill Standly’s squad a 54-53 victory over Mount Miguel in the championship game.