It was perhaps the finest track-and-field season in San Diego Section history.

There not only were a record seven gold medal winners (compared to five in 1974) in last week’s state championships in Clovis but area thinclads also had state best performances in five boys and girls events.

Kenon Christon was No. 1, not only in medals but in the 100 and 200-meter races, with best times of :10.30 and :20.55.  The Madison senior also was second with a 24-foot long jump.

Coronado’s Alysha Hickey was the leading high jumper with a clearance of 5 feet, 10 1/2 inches and long jumped 20 feet, 9 inches, although that mark was achieved with wind assistance over the allowable 2.0 meters.

University City’s Katriina Wright had the best 400 time, :53.93, and La Costa Canyon’s Kristin Fahy led all 3,200-meter runners at 10:11.38.

Seventeen San Diego athletes’ best marks were achieved in the state meet and are noted below in bold talics.  Marks in parenthesis show where locals stand in the state’s top 25 in each event.

BOYS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Christon, Madison	:10.30 (1) :10.26w	Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame	:10.40	:10.13 :09.98w Boling, Strake Jesuit, Houston
	Steward, Orange Glen	:10.54 (6T)
200	Christon, Madison	:20.55 (1)	Grubb, Notre Dame Sherman Oaks	:20.93	:20.58, Boling. Miller, Bishop Dunne, Dallas, :20.52w
	Steward, Orange Glen	:21.45 (19T)
400	Parker, Helix	:47.91 (12)	Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Trail	:46.49	:46.22, Robinson, Hazlewood West, Missouri
	Salzman, Calvin Christian	:48.25 (15)
	Lippert, La Costa Canyon	:48.31 (19)
800	Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual	1:52.52 (6)	Wingo, Valencia	1:51.71	1:50.24, Woods, E.C. Glass, Lynchburg, Va.
	Ali, Crawford	1:54.17 (25)
1600	G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:12.92 (14)	Hibbert, El Monte Arroyo	4:07.25	4:05.28. Atwood, Central Valley, Veradale, Washington
	Ali, Crawford	4:13.00 (15)
	J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:13.12 (16)
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	4:13.81 (21)
3200	Niednagel,  La Costa Canyon	9:01.76 (5)	Young, Newbury Park	8:40.0	Young
	Velasco, Mission Hills	9:07.27 (14)
110 High Hurdles	Sayles, Steele Canyon	:14.47w (17) :14.63	:13.31w :13.50	13:31w	Marshall
300 Intermediate Hurdles	Solomon, Grossmont	:37.88 (12)	Roberson, Upland	:36.32	:36.12, Matthews, Central, Pickering, Ohio
4×100 Relay	Madison	:41.88 (14)	Long Beach Poly	:40.87	:40.08, Fort Bend Marshall, Missouri City, Texas
4×400 Relay	Grossmont	3:19.19	Placentia Valencia	3:13.73	3:10.56, Strake Jesuit, Houston
High Jump	Brownell, San Dieguito	6-8 (9T)	Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos	7-0	7-1 ¾, Marseille, Cardinal Gibbons, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
	Lugo, Canyon Crest	6-6 ½  (21)
Long Jump	Christon, Madison	24-0	Foster Clovis North	25-1 ½	26-6, Martin, Saginaw, Michigan
	Mitchell, Point Loma	23-5 (13T)
	Harris-Williams, Granite Hills	23 1 ½ (21T)
Triple Jump	Mitchell, Point Loma	48-6 (3)	Foster, Clovis North	49-9 1/2	51-10 1/2 Foote-Talley, Northwest, Germantown, Maryland
	Gibbs, Oceanside	47-4 ¾ (12)
	Cynkin, Torrey Pines	46-5 ¼ (20)
	Harris-Williams, Granite Hills	46-4 ¼ (21)
Shot Put	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	54-0	Viveros, Bakersfield, Liberty	71-3	71-3, Viveros
Discus	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	162-1	Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor	197-4	209-6 1/4 Lemmon, Fort Myers, Florida
Pole Vault	Rice, Rancho Bernardo	16-5 (2)	Wright, Lodi	16-8	17-6, Stone, Lawrence North, Indianapolis, Indiana
	Volpe, San Marcos	15-9 (10T)
	Clarke, El Camino	15-3 (18T)
	Elamparo, Rancho Bernardo	15-3 (18T)
	Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel	15-3 (18T)

GIRLS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Shaheed, Madison	:11.57w (3) :11.71	Nowling, Calabasas	:11.40w	:11.27, Davis, Oak Hall, Gainesville, Florida
	Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch	:11.87w (14T)
	Hickey, Coronado	:11.92 (25)
200	Shaheed, Madison	:24.16 (6)	Nowling	:23.64	:23.06, Davis
	Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch	:24.30 (13T)
	Wright, University City	:24.44 (18)
400	Wright, University City	:53.93 (1)	Monrroy, L.B. Millikan	:54.16	:52.06, Wilson, Godwin, Richmond, Virginia
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	:55.50 (19)
800	Riedman, La Costa Canyon	2:11.37 (10)	Wallenstrom, Kentfield, Marin Catholic	2:08.78	2:06.1, Mustin, North Canyon, Phoenix
	Farmer, Rancho Bernardo	2:13.15 (23)
1600	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	4:48.34  (18)	Duarte, Chino Hills	4:42.58	4:37.07,Parks, Antrim, Greencastle, Pennsylvania
3200	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	10:11.38 (1)	Lowe, Clovis Buchanan	10:12.78	9:53.30, Tuohy, Thiells, North Rockland, N.Y.
	Dorostkar,  Canyon Crest	10:26.15 (9)
	Wallace, Sage Creek	10:33.10 (16)
100 Hurdles	Redon, San Diego	:14.17w (6) :14.28	Shearer San Jose Silver Creek	:13.24w	:13.02, Hawkins, Centralia, Missouri
	James, San Diego	:14.44w (12)
	Vaught, Steele Canyon	:14.66w (24)
300 Hurdles	Edwards, San Pasqual	:43.95 (14)	Glenn, Long Beach Wilson	:41.01	:40.78, Wilson,  Godwin, Richmond, Virginia
300 Hurdles	Mayo, Grossmont	:44.32 (22)
	Occiano, Mission Hills	:44.34 (23)
4×100 Relay	Scripps Ranch	:46.51 (1)	Calabasas	:45.95	:44.24, DeSoto, Texas
	Canyon Crest	:47.80 (25)
4×400 Relay	Scripps Ranch	3:50.63 (10)	Eastvale Roosevelt	3:43.77	3:39.79, DeSoto, Texas
High Jump	Hickey, Coronado	5-10 ½ (1)	Harris, Bakersfield Golden Valley	5-10	5-11 ½, Bottellier, Palisades, Kinterville, Pennsylvania
	Scales, Madison	5-6 (12T)
	Roberts, Westview	5-6 (12T)
Long Jump	Hickey, Coronado	20-9w (1) 20-2	Harris, Upland	20-8 1/2	21-2 ¼w, 20-5 3/4 Bryant, Memorial, Houston
	Hardyway, Oceanside	19-0 ¾ (11)
	Scott, Gompers	19-0 ½ (12)
	Miller, San Pasqual	18-10 ½ (17T)
	Shaheed, Madison	18-10 (21T)
Triple Jump	Miller, San Pasqual	40-06w (3) 40-2	Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek	41-3 3/4	44-10, Moore, Lake Ridge, Mansfield, Texas
	Scott, Gompers Prep	39-5 ½ (14)
	Hardyway, Oceanside	39-0 ½ (20)
Shot Put	Tuatasi, West Hills	45-1 ½ (8)	Budwig, Fowler	49-2 3/4	50-1 ½, Hoekstre, Seaside, Oregon
	Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo	42-0 (19)
	McNairy, San Diego	41-9 ½ (21)
Discus	Cruz, Mission Hills	139-3 (23)	Budwig, Fowler	171-10	176-8, Meyer, Superior, Nebraska
	Tuatasi, West Hills	138-0 (25)
Pole Vault	Callahan, Torrey Pines	13-6 (2T)	Funk, Clovis West	13-9	14-8, Cunliffe, West, Seattle, Washington
	Thomson, Poway	13-3 (5)
	Cervantes, Poway	13-0 (8T)
	Grudman, Sage Creek	12-6 (13T)
	Ray, Rancho Bernardo	12-0 (23T)

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn’t just Kenan Christon’s powerful sweep in the 100 and 200 meters.  San Diego Section athletes earned an unprecedented 7 gold medals in the 101st state track finals at Clovis Buchanan High.

–Christon equaled the 100-meter meet record of :10.30, set  by Riley Washington of San Diego Southwest in 1992, and roared down the stretch in the 200 to win going away in :20.69.

Washington was the last section runner to finish first in the 100 and it hadn’t been since David Russell of Patrick Henry in 1977 that San Diego had a double winner in the sprints.

GIRLS WIN FIVE

–Scripps Ranch, running and passing the baton smartly, held off a challenge by host school Clovis Buchanan, to win the 400 meters in :46.51 for the first gold in the event by a local team since Crawford set a then-national record of :46.14 (converted to a metric :45.94) in 1977 at UCLA’s Drake Stadium.

–La Costa Canyon’s Kristin Fahy, forcing the action early and wearing out her competition, set a County record at 10:11.38 in the 3200 meters and finished more than 6 seconds ahead of the runner-up.

–University City sophomore Katriina Wright raced to the outskirts of Monique Henderson territory, her :53.93 the first under 54 seconds since Henderson won 4 consecutive titles from 1998-2001 and set a national record of :50.74 in 2000.

–Rancho Bernardo’s Ashley Callahan led 5 san Diego vaulters into the final and cleared 13-4, four inches better than second place  Paige Sommers of Westlake.

–Alysha Hickey didn’t defend her 2018 long jump title, although her 19-10 1/2 was better than the 19-9 3/4 at which she won a year ago, but then eliminated the competition by clearing 5-8 and winning the high jump.

DIDN’T WIN, BUT…

The Scripps Ranch ladies were sixth in the 4×400 relay but their time of 3:50.3 is fourth fastest all-time in San Diego.

Rancho Bernardo’s Jacob Rice cleared the winning pole vault height of 16 feet, 5 inches, No. 5 all-time in San Diego, but had more misses than winner Samuel Wright of Lodi.

–San Pasqual’s Elise Miller became the ninth girl to reach 40 feet in the  triple jump and her 40-2  earned Miller a third place medal.

–Orange Glen’s Moray Stewart was fourth in  the 100 for the second year in a row and his :10.54 moved Steward into eighth place.

–La Costa Canyon junior Caleb Niednagel was fifth in the 3200 and his 9:01.76, ranks No. 12 all-time.

–Carlie Dorostar of Canyon Crest was sixth in the 3200 in 10:26.15 and elevated to No. 7 all-time.

–Helix junior Eric Parker was running with the pack coming off the final curve before finishing seventh in the 400, but his :47.91 put Parker into the section’s top 20.

Results of the first six finishers in each event:

Allowable wind, 2.0.

BOYS

4×100—Elk Grove Monterey Trail, :41.47. Clovis North, :41.49.  L.B. Poly, :41.56. Trabuco Hills, :41.61. Studio City Harvard Westlake, :41.71. Temecula Great Oak, :42.23.

1600—Strangio (Carmichael Jesuit), 4:08.07. Beattie (San Jose Bellarmine), 4:09.99.  Anderson (Larkspur Redwood), 4:10.26.  Grover (San Juan Capistrano JSerra), 4:10.60.  Middleton-Pearson (Dublin), 4:10.96.  Herold (San Juan Capistrano JSerra), 4:11.85.

110HH—Marshall (Stockton St. Mary’s), 13.31, wind 3.3. Foster (Clovis North), 13.71. Williams (Tracy West), 13.92.  Jimenez (Kingsburg), 14.03.  Wada-Law (Los Gatos :14.13.  Taylor (L.A. Cathedral), 14.34.

 400—Larrier (Elk Grove Monterey Trail), :46.73.  Borquez (Studio City Westlake), :46.83.  Strader (Santa Clarita West Ranch), :47.10.  Reynolds (Concord Clayton Valley), :47.31.  Wheeler (Elk Grove Monterey Trail), :47.45.  Steward (L.B. Poly), :47.79.  7. Parker (Helix), :47.91, section No. 20 all-time.

 100—Christon (Madison), 10.30, wind 1.2. Ties state meet record and Section record by Riley Washington, San Diego Southwest, 1992. Grubb (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame), :10.53. Mulholland (Loomis Del Oro), :10.53.  4. Steward (Orange Glen), 10.54, section No. 8 all-time. Luke (Bellflower St. John Bosco), :10.59.  Scruggs (Clovis North), :10.62.

 800—Wingo (Valencia), 1:51.71. Gordon (Carmichael Jesuit), 1:51.74. Ratkovich (L.A. Loyola), 1:52.22. Macquiddy (Campbell Westmont), 1:52.25. Zarate-Sanchez (Davis), 1:52.78.  Bryson (L.B. Wilson), 1:52.97.  10. Prince (ChulaVista High Tech), 1:54.71.

300IH—Roberson (Upland), :36.32. Rash (Riverside King), :36.41.  Marshall (Stockton St. Mary’s), :37.28.  Monti (Los Gatos), :37.39.  Wada-Law (Los Gatos), :37.62. Andrade (Visalia Redwood), :38.03.  7.  Solomon (Grossmont), 40.66.

 200—Christon (Madison), :20.69, wind 2.5.  Reynolds (Concord Clayton Valley), :20.99.  Grubb (Notre Dame Sherman Oaks), :21.11. Mulholland (Loomis Del Oro), :21.24. Floriolli (Fremont J.F. Kennedy), :21.44.  6. Steward (Orange Glen), :21.49.

3200—Young (Newbury Park), 8:47.27. Anderson (Larkspur Redwood), 8:53.28. Strangio (Carmichael Jesuit), 8:57.69.  Herold (Capistrano JSerra), 8:58.34.  Niednagel (La Costa Canyon), 9:01.76. Section No. 12 all-time. Bates (Santa Clarita West Ranch), 9:02.03.

 4×400 Relay—L.A. Loyola, 3:17.56.  L.B. Poly, 3:17.68. L.B. Wilson, 3:18.02.  Trabuco Hills, 3:18.22. Eastvale Roosevelt, 3:18.42.  Elk Grove Monterey Trail, 3:20.37.

 HIGH JUMP—Allen (Santa Barbara San Marcos), 6-11. Cash (Anaheim Canyon), 6-10. Wiseman (Huntington Beach), 6-9.  Chenworth (Boron), 6-9. Ruddell (Morro Bay), 6-9.  Garnett (Huntington Beach Edison), 6-7.  10. Brownell (San Dieguito), 6-5.

 LONG JUMP—Foster (Clovis North), 25-0, wind 2.3. Hunter (Trcy Kimball), 23-9 ¼, wind 4.2.  Kroeger (Yuba City River Valley), 23-6 ¼, wind, 1.5.  Chachere (Clovis West), 23-3, wind, 3.9. Aubert (Perris California Military), 23-0 ½), 2.0.  Matys (Aptos), 22-10 ¾, wind, 1.9.  9. Yokley (El Capitan), 22-1 ¾ wind 3.4.

 TRIPLE JUMP—Foster (Clovis North), 49-9 ½. McDaniel (Selma), 48-2 ¾.  Wei (South Pasadena), 48-0 ¼.  Agina (Sanger), 47-11.  Hemphill (Upland), 47-5 ¾.  Ruth (Menifee Heritage), 47-0 ½. 8.  Mitchell (Point Loma), 46-4 ½.  11. Gibbs (Oceanside), 44-6 ½.

SHOT PUT—Viveros (Bakersfield Liberty), 68-1 0 ½.  Elbettar (Newport Beach Newport Harbor), 62-4 ¾.  Rhyan (Capistrano San Juan Hills), 61-6 ½.  Sawyer (Los Alamitos), 61-2.  Lyons (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame), 61-1 ¼. Johnson (Clovis Buchanan), 59-3 ¾.

 DISCUS—Cruz (Newbury Park), 191-11. Johnson (Clovis Buchanan), 179-11.  Van Grouw (Clovis Buchanan), 177-09.  Viveros (Bakersfield Liberty), 176-09.  Lopez (Anaheim Canyon), 171-05.

 PV—Wright (Lodi), 16-5.  Rice (Rancho Bernardo), 16-5, section tie No. 5 all-time. Toney (Mountain View St. Francis), 16-1. Yonker (Temecula Great Oak), 15-9.  O’Brien (L.A. Loyola), 15-5.  Vanderlipe (Salinas Alvarez), 15-5.  8. Volpe (San Marcos), 14-11.  Clarke (El Camino), no height.  

 GIRLS

4X100 Relay—Scripps Ranch, :46.51, section No. 6 all-time. Clovis Buchanan, :46.75. L.B. Poly, :47.25.  Alta Loma Rancho Cucamonga, :47.25.  Eastvale Roosevelt, :47.28.  Carson, :47.44.

 1600—Duarte (Chino Hills), 4:42.58.  Lowe (Clovis Buchanan), 4:43.61. Suarez (Pasadena Mayfield), 4:45.0.  Barnett (San Jose Village Christian), 4:46.12.  Cortres (Temecula Great Oak), 4:49.71.  Petrson (Healdsburg), 4:51.86.  8. Farmer (Rancho Bernardo), 4:56.02.

 100H—Shearer (San Jose Silver Creek), 13.24, wind 2.9. Bowen (Stockton Edison), 13.54.  Atkinson (L.B. St. Anthony), 13.84. Shorter (Norco), 14.907. Johnson (Sacramento St. Francis), 14.10.  Renz (Bakersfield Liberty), 14.15). 9. Redon (San Diego), 15.12.

 400–Wright (University City), :53.93, section No. 3 all-time. Monrroy (L.B. Millikan), :54.25.  Pipion (Folsom Vista dela Lago), :54.46.  Babineaux (Lancaster Quartz Hill), :54.68.  Okonkwo (Murrieta Mesa), :54.83.   Memoly (Rancho Santa Margarita), :55.03.

 100—Nowling (Calabasas), :11.55, wind 1.6. Okoro (Pleasanton Amador Valley), :11.60.  Frost (Gardena Serra), :11.64.  Shaheed (Madison), :11.76. Martin (L.B. Poly), :11.76.  Green (Rancho Santa Margarita), :11.78.

 800—Wallenstrom (Kentfield Marin Catholic), 2:08.78. Tomkinton (Atherton Menlo), 2:09.41.  Stanziano (Concord), 2:10.07.  Fauria (Sacramento St. Francis), 2:10.49. Wilson (Westlake Village Oaks Christian), 2:10.87.  Harper (Weaverville Trinity), 2:10.98.

300IH—Glenn (L.B. Wilson), :41.71.  Shorter (Norco), :42.06.  Renz (Bakersfield Liberty), :42.24.  Grady (Upland), :43.01.  Jenkins (Riverside North), :43.04.  Bingham (El Dorado Oak Ridge), :43.39.

 200—Daniele (Clovis Buchanan), :23.73, wind 1.6.  Frost (Gardena Serra), :23.83.  Okoro (Pleasanton Amador Valley), :23.86.  Martin (L.B. Poly), :23.94.  Nowling (Calabasas), :23.98.  Shaheed (Madison), :24.17.

 3200—Fahy (La Costa Canyon), 10:11.38, section No. 1 all-time. Smith (Clovis Buchanan), 10:27.39.  Lowe (Clovis Buchanan), 10:18.87.  Chamberlin (Loomis Del Oro), 10:21.31. Peterson (Healdsburg), 10:23.85. 6. Doroskar (Canyon Crest), 10:26.15.

 HIGH JUMP—Hickey (Coronado), 5-8. Glenn (L.B. Wilson), 5-7. Plummer (Moorpark), 5-7. Lybbert (Davis), 5-6.  Kaufman (Studio City Harvard-Westlake), 5-5.  Harper (Fresno Central), 5-5.

 LJ—Harris (Upland), 20-8 ½, wind 1.3. Shearer (San Jose Silver Creek), 19-10 ¾, wind 1.4.  3. Hickey (Coronado), 19-10 ½, wind 2.2. McDonald (Calabasas), 19-9 ¾, wind 2.2.  Johnson (Rocklin Whitney), 19-6 ¾, wind 1.5.  Atkinson (L.B. St. Anthony), 19-4 ½, wind minus 2.0. 9. Miller (San Pasqual), 18-6 ¼, wind minus 0.8.

TRIPLE JUMP—Shearer (San Jose Silver Creek), 41.1, wind 2.7.  Abirached (Clovis Buchanan), 40-3 ¼, wind 2.0. Miller (San Pasqual), 40-2, wind 1.2. Dargan (Concord), 39-11 ½. Flowers (Burbank), 39-6.  Lyon (Irvine Woodbridge), 39-2 ¾.

SHOT PUT—Budwig (Fowler), 49-2 ¾.  Franklin (Santa Clarita Golden Valley), 48-0 ¾.  Watts (Pacifica Terra Nova), 45-4. Ramirez (Santa Clarita West Ranch), 44-0 ½.  Bender (Bakersfield Liberty), 43-8 ¾.  Crockrell (Calabasas), 43-8.

 DISCUS—Budwig (Fowler), 171-10.  Bender (Bakersfield Liberty), 168-06.  Ramirez (Santa Clarita West Ranch), 159-0.  Fuller (Santa Clara), 148-10. Liu (Eastvale Roosevelt), 148-2. Spear (Thousand Oaks), 147-3.

POLE VAULT—Callahan (Rancho Bernardo), 13-4. Sommers (Westlake Village Westlake), 13-0.  Thomson (Poway), 13-0.Kern (Concord Carondelet), 13-0. Funk (Clovis West), 12-8. Tie, Adamiec (Poway), Simon (San Anselmo Sir Francis Drake), 12-8.  8. Cervantes (Poway), 12-2.  10. Grudman (Sage Creek) 12-2.

4×400 Relay—L.B. Poly, 3:46.23.  Eastvale Roosevelt, 3:47.94.  Dana Hills, 3:48.29.  L.B. Wilson, 3:49.84. Berkeley St. Mary’s College, 3:49.84. 6. Scripps Ranch, 3:50.63.  

 

 

 

Twenty-five San Diego Section entries qualified in 22 events for tonight’s 101st state track finals at Clovis Buchanan High. 12 boys advanced in 9 events and 11 girls in 11 events plus two relay teams.

Madison’s Kenon Christon will attempt to become the section’s first winner in the 100 sionce 1993 and the first double winner in the 100 and 200 since 1977.  Christon won  his trials in :10.33 wind-aided and :20.66, wind okay.

Orange Glen’s Moray Steward, fourth in the 100 in 2018, won his heat in :10.58, 11th all-time, and also qualified in the 200.

Other heat and field event winners last night:

–Chula Vista’s Drake Prince, who had the fastest qualifying 800 meters, 1:53.22.

–Rancho Bernado’s Jacob Rice, who tied 3 others at 15 feet, 9 inches, in the pole vault.

–University City’s Katriina Wright, who ran the section’s fifth fastest all-time girls 400 in :54.17.

–Madison’s Alysha Shaheed, :11.71 in 100 meters.

–The Scripps Ranch girls 4×100 relay team, which had the second fastest time, :47.00.

–Coronado’s Alysha Hickey, defending champion in the long jump, qualified with 7 others at 5-5 in the high jump and was second in the long jump at 19-4 1/2.

–Four  pole vaulters, who were among nine girls clearing 12-4.  They were Ashley Callahan of Rancho Bernardo, Camryn Thomson oif Poway, Katarina Adamiec of Poway, and Maya Grudman of Sage Creek.

–Elise Miller of San Pasqual, triple jump leader at 40-6.

San Diego qualifiers are in italics:

NQ—Nonqualifier.

BOYS

4×100 Relay–Heat 1:  L.B. Poly, 41.28.  NQ 4. Madison, 42.44. Heat 2: Alta Loma Rancho Cucamonga,  41.32. NQ 8. Cathedral, 43.01. Heat 3:  Trabuco Hills, 41.37. NQ 8. Canyon Crest, 42.92.

1600—Heat 1: Anderson (Larkspur Redwood), 4:12.20, NQ 11. J. Stanford (La Costa Cnyon), 4:23.31. Heat 2:  Strangio (Sacto Jesuit), 4:09.13. NQ 10. Ali (Crawford), 4:17.96. NQ 12. G Stanford (La Costa Canyon), 4:21.73.

110 HH—Heat 1: Marshall (Stockton St. Mary’s), 13.64. Heat 2: Williams (Tracy West), 13.83. Heat 3: Foster (Clovis North), 13.67. NQ 5. Sayles (Steele Canyon), 14.63. NQ 6. Solomon (Grossmont), 14.69. NQ. 7. Pinto (University City), 14.71.

400—Heat 1: Strader (Valencia West Ranch), 47.68.  4. Parker (Helix), 48.02. Heat 2: Larrier (Elk Grove Monterey Trail), 46.76. NQ 3. Lippert (La Costa Canyon), 48.70. NQ 8. Salzman (Calvin Christian), 49.05.Heat 3:  Borquez (Studio City Harvard Westlake), 47.29.

100—Heat 1:  Christon (Madison), 10.32, wind 2.5.  NQ 7. Tucker (SA), 10.80. Heat 2: Steward (Orange Glen), 10.58, wind 1.3. Section No. 11 all-time. Heat 3: Mulholland (Loomis Del Oro), 10.48, wind 1.1.

800—Heat 1: Gordon (Sacto Jesuit), 1:54.12.  Heat 2:  Prince (Chula Vista HighTech), 1:53.22. Heat 3:  Alexander (Fairfield Vanden), 1:53.57. NQ 6. Palacio (Brawley), 1:58.48. NQ 7. Tellez-Velasquez (San Pasqual), 1:59.52.

300IH—Heat 1: Rash (Riverside King), 37.11. NQ 6. Stewart (Canyon Crest), 39.56. NQ 7. Knobloch (Granite Hills), 40.28. Heat 2: Hemphill (Upland), 37.50.  4. Solomon (Grossmont), 37.88.  Heat 3: Roberson (Upland), 36.80.

200—Heat 1:  Christon (Madison), 20.67, wind 1.7.  Heat 2: Mays (Gardena Serra), 21.25, wind 0.8. NQ 4. Douet (Orange Glen), 22.02. Heat 3: 3. Steward (Orange Glen), 21.66. NQ 5. Lippert (La Costa Canyon), 21.90.

4×400 Relay—Heat 1: Trabuco Hills, 3:15.85.  NQ 7. Grossmont, 3:20.66. Heat 2: L.A. Loyola, 3:15.38. NQ 6. Helix, 3:22.11.  Heat 3: L.B. Poly, 3:16.87.  NQ 7. Sage Creek, 3:22.36.

HJ—9 qualified at 6-6, including Brownell (San Dieguito). Lugo (Canyon Crest), 6-4. Marquez (El Centro Central), 6-4.

LJ–12 qualified.  Foster, (Clovis West), 23-10.  12. Yokley (El Capitan), 22-0.  19. Mitchell (Point Loma), 21-5 ¼. 20. Smith (El Centro Central) 21-3.

TJ—12 qualified.  Hemphill (Upland), 48-2½. 3. Mitchell (Point Loma), 46-10 ½. 8. Gibbs (Oceanside),  45-9 ½. 19. Harris-Williams (Granite Hills), 44-0 1/4.

SP—12 qualified.  Viveros (Bakersfield Liberty), 68-1 ¾. NQ 20. Rokach (Mt. Carmel), 50-4 ½. NQ 23. West (Torrey Pines), 49-6 ¼. NQ Amankonah (Canyon Crest), fouls, no distance.

DISCUS—12 qualified.  Cruz (Newbury Park), 195-0. 14. Peterson (Rancho Bernardo), 154-4. 15. Boamah (Scripps Ranch), 152-11. 19. Salazar (Sweetwater), 147-11.

PV—Four qualified at 15-9, including Rice (Rancho Bernardo). 8 qualified at 15-3, including Volpe (San Marcos),Clarke (El Camino).

GIRLS

4X100 Relay—Heat 1: Scripps Ranch, 47.00. Heat 2: Riverside North, 47.35.  6. NQ Mission Hills, 48.54.  Heat 3:  Clovis Buchanan, 46.92.  Canton Crest, DQ, lane violation.

1600—Heat 1: Barnett (San Jose Village Christian), 4:50.04. NQ  Longo (Mission Vista), 5:04.56. Heat 2: Cortes (Temecula Great. Oak), 4:51.02. 4. Farmer (Rancho Bernardo), 4:53.75. NQ, Mercado (Eastlake), 5:00.01.

100H—Heat 1: Shearer (S.J. Silver Creek), 13.63.  Heat 2: Bowen (Huntington Beach Edison), 13.70.  Heat 3: Shorter (Norco), 13.99. 3. Redon (San Diego), 14.46. NQ 6. James (San Diego), 14.81. NQ 7 Vaught (Steele Canyon), 15.14.

400—Heat 1: Monroy (L.B. Millikan), 54.64. NQ 5. Bean (Poway), 56.81. Heat 2: Wright (UC), 54.17, Section No. 5 all-time. NQ 5. Cramer (The Bishop’s), 56.82.  Heat 3: Bentley (Playa del Rey St. Bernard), 55.14.  Heat 4:  Okonko (Murietta Mesa), 55.03.

100—Heat 1: Shaheed (Madison), 11.71, wind 0.7.  Heat 2: Okoro (Pleasanton Amador Valley), 11.56, wind 1.1.  NQ 5. Ruskovich (Scripps Ranch), 11.99. Heat 3: Nowling (Calabasas), 11.70 wind 1.2. NQ 4. Bateman (Eastlake) 12.09.

800—Heat 1: Stanziano (Concord), 2:11.01. Heat 2: Tomkinton (Atherton Menlo), 2:12.26. NQ 5. Zamorano (Christian), 2:15.10. Heat 3: Harper (Weaverville Trinity), 2:12.26. NQ 5. Perez (Coronado), 2:15.37. NQ 6. Morales (Scripps Ranch), 2:15.80.

300LH—Heat 1: Glenn (L.B. Wilson), 41.60. NQ 4. Edwards (San Pasqual), 44.31. NQ 5. Mayo (Grossmont), 44.88. Heat 2: Jenkins (Riverside North), 42.75. NQ 5. Occiano (Mission Hills), 45.03.  Heat 3: Renz (Bakersfield Liberty), 42.62.

200—Heat 1: Daniele (Clovis Buchanan), 24.01, wind 1.1. NQ 5. Ruskovich (Scripps Ranch), 24.55. Heat 2: Nowling (Calabasas), 24.23. NQ 4. Hatton (Sage Creek) 24.86. Heat 3:  Okoro (Pleasanton Amador Valley), 23.82, wind 0.7.  2. Shaheed (Madison), 24.21.

4X400 Relay—Heat 1:  Eastvale Roosevelt, 3:46.60. 4. Scripps Ranch, 3:52.20.  Heat 2: Westlake Village Oaks Christian, 3:47.16. Heat 3: Riverside North, 3:47.48.  NQ 5. Eastlake, 3:54.92.  NQ 6. Cathedral, 3:58.78.

HJ—8 qualified at 5-5. including Hickey (Coronado).  4 qualified at 5-4. NQ Beaudoin (Wview), 5-2.  Vaal (Imperial), no height.

LJ—12 qualified. Harris (Upland), 20-2 ½.  2. Hickey (Coronado), 19-4 ½.  9. Miller (San Pasqual), 18-05w. 18. Scott (Gompers), 17-8 ¾.

TJ—12 qualified. Miller (San Pasqual), 40-2, wind 1.6. 15. Scott (Gompers), 37-9. 22. Hardyway (Oceanside), 36-4 ¾.

SP—12 qualified.  Budwig (Fowler), 49-0 ¼. 14. Lagoy (Rancho Bernardo), 41-0 ½.  Atutasi (West Hills), 40-8 ½.  NQ 24. McNairy (San Diego), 34-9 ¾.

DISCUS—11 qualified. Budwig (Fowler), 160-4. 18. Cruz (Mission Hills), 125-4. 19. Nichols (Christian), 121-7.  21. Hiatt (Rancho Bernardo), 113-03.

PV—9 qualified at 12-4, including Callahan (Rancho Bernardo), Thomson (Poway), Adamiec (Poway), Grudman (Sage Creek).  12. Cervantes (Poway) won jump off to qualify at 12-0. 19. Ray (Rancho Bernardo), 11-6.

 

 

The San Diego Section qualified more than 100 boys and girls athletes for the Friday-Saturday, 101st state track championships at Clovis Buchanan High.

The top three finishers in the San Diego Section meet last week and others who met the state qualifying standard earned the 340-mile trip to the Fresno suburb.

Coronado’s Alysha Hickey will defend the long jump title she won last year at Clovis as the section’s first individual winner since 2015.

Madison’s Kenan Chriton will try to double in the 100 and 200 meters.  Riley Washington of San Diego Southwest was the area’s last 100-meter winner, clocking :10.30 at Cerritos College in Norwalk in 1992.

David Russell of Patrick Henry was the last 220 winner, running :20.91 wind aided at UCLA in 1977.  Russell also won the 100 in :09.61w. San Diego’s only other double sprint champion was San Diego’s Jimmy Willson, who ran :09.8 and :21.4 at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1929.

Canyon Crest scored 73 points to win the boys’ Division I championship in Saturday’s section final at Mt. Carmel High.  La Costa Canyon followed with 63.  Point Loma had 51, Torrey Pines 49, and Helix 44.

Cathedral (67), Oceanside (59), Sage Creek (52), Madison (48 1/2), and La Jolla (40 1/2) were the D-II leaders.

Scripps Ranch led  girls’ Division I scoring with 68 points, followed by Rancho Bernardo (65), San Diego (49), Eastlake (41), and San Pasqual (41).  University’s 80 points led D-II, followed by Christian (76), Sage Creek (46), Coronado (45), and Madison (43).

Twenty-one girls entries achieved season bests, compared with 17 boys..

Italics below represent new season bests and parenthesis show San Diego Section competitors’ standing against the rest of California.

GIRLS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Shaheed, Madison	:11.57w (2T) :11.87 (12T)	Nowling, Calabasas	:11.40w	:11.27, Davis, Oak Hall, Gainesville, Florida
	Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch	:11.87w
200	Shaheed, Madison	:24.16 (6)	Nowling	:23.64	:23.06, Davis
	Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch	:24.30 (13T)
	Wright, University City	:24.44 (18)
400	Wright, University City	:54.83 (9)	Okonkwo, Murrieta Mesa	:54.25	:52.17, Ford, Northeast, Oakland Park, Florida
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	:55.50 (18)
800	Riedman, La Costa Canyon	2:11.37 (5)	Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo	2:10.61	2:06.1, Mustin, North Canyon, Phoenix
	Farmer, Rancho Bernardo	2:13.15 (19)
1600	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	4:48.34  (5)	Barnett, Sun Valley Village Christian	4:47.30	4:43.74, Halladay, Mountain View, Meridian, Idaho
	Riedman, La Costa Canyon	4:53.28 (16)
	Farmer, Rancho Bernardo	4:55.35 (19)
	Longo, Mission Vista	4:55.95 (25)
3200	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	10:15.80 (2)	Lowe, Clovis Buchanan	10:12.78	9:53.30, Tuohy, Thiells, North Rockland, N.Y.
	Dorostkar,  Canyon Crest	10:28.14 (9)
	Wallace, Sage Creek	10:35.40 (19)
100 Hurdles	Redon, San Diego	:14.17w (6) :14.28	Shearer San Jose Silver Creek	:13.36	:13.33, Jones, Greater Atlanta Christian. Norcross, Georgia
	James, San Diego	:14.44w (12)
	Vaught, Steele Canyon	:14.66w (25)
300 Hurdles	Edwards, San Pasqual	:43.95 (13)	Glenn, Long Beach Wilson	:41.01	:40.82, Phillips, Bullis, Potomac, Maryland
300 Hurdles	Mayo, Grossmont	:44.32 (21)
	Occiano, Mission Hills	:44.34 (22)
4×100 Relay	Scripps Ranch	:46.58 (2)	Calabasas	:45.95	:44.24, DeSoto, Texas
	Canyon Crest	:47.80 (21)
	Mission Hills	:47.81 (13)
4×400 Relay	Scripps Ranch	3:52.16 (12)	Eastvale Roosevelt	3:43.77	3:39.79, DeSoto, Texas
High Jump	Hickey, Coronado	5-10 ½ (1)			Three at 5-11
	Scales, Madison	5-6 (12T)
	Roberts, Westview	5-6 (12T)
Long Jump	Hickey, Coronado	20-9w (1) 20-2	Harris, Upland	20-5 1/2	21-2 ¼w, 20-5 3/4 Bryant, Memorial, Houston
	Hardyway, Oceanside	19-0 ¾ (9)
	Scott, Gompers	19-0 ½ (10T)
	Miller, San Pasqual	18-10 ½ (17T)
	Shaheed, Madison	18-10 (20)
Triple Jump	Miller, San Pasqual	40-06w (3) 39-10	Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek	41-3 3/4	44-10, Moore, Lake Ridge, Mansfield, Texas
	Scott, Gompers Prep	39-5 ½ (11T)
	Hardyway, Oceanside	39-0 ½ (16T)
Shot Put	Tuatasi, West Hills	45-1 ½ (8)	Franklin, Santa Clarita Golden Valley	47-11 1/2	50-1 ½, Hoekstre, Seaside, OregonTuatsas
	Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo	42-0 (17)
	McNairy, San Diego	41-9 ½ (19)
Discus	Cruz, Mission Hills	139-3 (23)	Budwig, Fowler	171-7	174-2 ¼, Meyer, Superior, Nebraska
	Tuatasi, West Hills	138-0 (25)
Pole Vault	Callahan, Torrey Pines	13-6 (2T)	Funk, Clovis West	13-9	14-8, Cunliffe, West, Seattle, Washington
	Thomson, Poway	13-3 (5)
	Cervantes, Poway	13-0 (8T)
	Grudman, Sage Creek	12-6 (13T)
	Ray, Rancho Bernardo	12-0 (22T)

BOYS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Christon, Madison	:10.33 (1) :10.24w	Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame	:10.40	:10.13 :09.98w Boling, Strake Jesuit, Houston
	Steward, Orange Glen	:10.57w (8T)
200	Christon, Madison	:20.55 (1)	Grubb, Notre Dame Sherman Oaks	:20.93	:20.58, Boling. Miller, Bishop Dunne, Dallas, :20.52w
	Steward, Orange Glen	:21.45 (17T)
400	Parker, Helix	:47.99 (12)	Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Trail	:46.49	:46.22, Robinson, Hazlewood West, Missouri
	Salzman, Calvin Christian	:48.25 (15)
	Lippert, La Costa Canyon	:48.31 (18)
800	Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual	1:52.52 (4)	Wingo, Valencia	1:52.08	1:50.24, Woods, E.C. Glass, Lynchburg, Va.
	Ali, Crawford	1:54.17 (18)
1600	G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:12.92 (11)	Hibbert, El Monte Arroyo	4:07.25	4:05.28. Atwood, Central Valley, Veradale, Washington
	Ali, Crawford	4:13.0 (12)
	J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:13.12 (13)
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	4:13.81 (17)
3200	Velasco, Fallbrook	9:07.27 (13)	Young, Newbury Park	8:40.0	Young
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	9:09.06 (16)
110 High Hurdles	Sayles, Steele Canyon	:14.47w (15) :14.72
300 Intermediate Hurdles	Solomon, Grossmont	:38.38 (14)
	Stewart, Canyon Crest	:38.87 (21)
4×100 Relay	Madison	:41.88 (13)	Long Beach Poly	:40.87	:40.08, Fort Bend Marshall, Missouri City, Texas
4×400 Relay	Grossmont	3:19.19 (12)	Placentia Valencia	3:13.73	3:10.56, Strake Jesuit, Houston
High Jump	Brownell, San Dieguito	6-8 (8T)	Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos	7-0	7-1 ¾, Marseille, Cardinal Gibbons, Fort Lauderdale
	Lugo, Canyon Crest	6-6 1/12 (20)
Long Jump	Christon, Madison	24-0 (3)	Foster Clovis North	25-1 ½	26-6, Martin, Saginaw, Michigan
	Mitchell, Point Loma	23-5 (12T)
	Harris-Williams,  Granite Hills	23-1 ½ (21T)
Triple Jump	Mitchell, Point Loma	48-6 (3)	Hemphill, Upland	48-8 ¼	51-9 ¾, Forde, McMahon, Norwalk, Connecticut
	Gibbs, Oceanside	47-4 ¾ (11)
	Cynkin, Torrey Pines	46-5 ¼ (20T))
	Harris-Williams, Granite Hills	46-4 ¼ (21)
Shot Put	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	54-0	Viveros, Bakersfield, Liberty	71-3	Viveros
Discus	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	162-3	Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor	197-4	209-6 1/4 Lemmon, Fort Myers, Florida
Pole Vault	Rice, Rancho Bernardo	16-4 (2)	Wright, Lodi	16-8	17-3 ¼, Farmer, Lake Hamilton, Pearcy, Arkansas
	Brown, La Costa Canyon	16-0  (5T)
	Volpe, San Marcos	15-9 (6)
	Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel	15-3 (17T)
	Brown, La Costa Canyon	15-3 (17T)
	Elemparo, Rancho Bernardo	15-3 (17T)

BOYS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Christon, Madison	:10.42 (3) :10.24w	Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame	:10.40	:10.13 :09.98w Boling, Strake Jesuit, Houston
	Steward, Orange Glen	:10.57w (8T)
200	Christon, Madison	:20.55 (1)	Grubb, Notre Dame Sherman Oaks	:20.93	:20.58, Boling. Miller, Bishop Dunne, Dallas, :20.52w
400	Parker, Helix	:47.99 (12)	Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Trail	:46.49	:46.22, Robinson, Hazlewood West, Missouri
	Salzman, Calvin Christian	:48.25 (15)
	Lippert, La Costa Canyon	:48.31 (18)
800	Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual	1:52.52 (4)	Wingo, Valencia	1:52.08	1:50.24, Woods, E.C. Glass, Lynchburg, Va.
	Ali, Crawford	1:54.17 (18)
1600	G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:12.92 (11)	Hibbert, El Monte Arroyo	4:07.25	4:05.28. Atwood, Central Valley, Veradale, Washington
	Ali, Crawford	4:13.0 (12)
	J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:13.12 (13)
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	4:13.81 (17)
	Velasco, Fallbrook	9:07.27 (13)	Young, Newbury Park	8:40.0	Young
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	9:09.06 (16)
4×100 Relay	Madison	:41.88 (13)	Long Beach Poly	:40.87	:40.08, Fort Bend Marshall, Missouri City, Texas
4×400 Relay	Grossmont	3:19.19 (12)	Placentia Valencia	3:13.73	3:10.56, Strake Jesuit, Houston
High Jump	Brownell, San Dieguito	6-8 (8T)	Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos	7-0	7-1 ¾, Marseille, Cardinal Gibbons, Fort Lauderdale
	Lugo, Canyon Crest	6-6 1/12 (20)
Long Jump	Christon, Madison	24-0 (3)	Foster Clovis North	25-1 ½	26-6, Martin, Saginaw, Michigan
	Mitchell, Point Loma	23-5 (12T)
	Harris-Williams,  Granite Hills	23-1 ½ (21T)
Triple Jump	Mitchell, Point Loma	48-6 (3)	Hemphill, Upland	48-8 ¼	51-9 ¾, Forde, McMahon, Norwalk, Connecticut
	Gibbs, Oceanside	47-4 ¾ (11)
	Cynkin, Torrey Pines	46-5 ¼ (20T))
	Harris-Williams, Granite Hills	46-4 ¼ (21)
Shot Put	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	54-0	Viveros, Bakersfield, Liberty	71-3	Viveros
Discus	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	162-3	Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor	197-4	209-6 1/4 Lemmon, Fort Myers, Florida
Pole Vault	Rice, Rancho Bernardo	16-4 (2)	Wright, Lodi	16-8	17-3 ¼, Farmer, Lake Hamilton, Pearcy, Arkansas
	Brown, La Costa Canyon	16-0  (5T)
	Volpe, San Marcos	15-9 (6)
	Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel	15-3 (17T)
	Brown, La Costa Canyon	15-3 (17T)
	Elemparo, Rancho Bernardo	15-3 (17T)

Those pesky uprights.

San Diego High’s presumed run to a state championship was blindsided when Ed Pohl, leading as he approached the final obstacle in the 220-yard hurdles, slammed into a 30-inch barrier at San Jose State’s Spartan Stadium.

Pohl stumbled and tried to recover but tripped across the rail separating the field from the track, fell across the finish line in third place, and was disqualified for a lane violation.

The sudden swing from an expected five to zero points, in an event historically known for missteps, knocked the Hillers out of their second team championship in the last four years.

If Pohl had finished the race in front, as seemed certain, San Diego’s point total of 23 would have edged Fresno Edison Technical, which had 22.

The Hillers finished second with 18 points.  Glenn Willis was runner-up in the 100, won the 220 in :21.7, and rolled with his baton-exchanging 880-yard relay teammates to a triumph in 1:29. Lou Barrera was second to the :49.9 440 of Whittier’s O.B. Hughes.

Central Section teams, Edison, Lindsay (14), and Bakersfield (10) were 1, 3, and 4. Hoover was tied for sixth with 7 points. Los Angeles City Section schools did not participate.

Pohl’s misfortune was the only blotch on an outstanding season, in which San Diego and Hoover, the two big entries from the Border City, dominated Southern California.

The Hillers, coached by Ed Ruffa, and the Cardinals, mentored by future San Diego High principal Lawrence Carr, battled in two supercharged dual meets after a water-logged beginning to the season.

JUPITER PLUVIOUS UNCOOPERATIVE

The mythical Roman rain-giver hammered San Diego so often that 24.74 inches of precipitation were measured in the 1940-41 calendar year, the city’s second highest total since 1850, when records began being kept.

Dual meets all over the area were washed out in March.

Ruffa even took his team to Grossmont High for a training session on the Foothillers crushed granite layout, which dried more quickly than the cinder track in Balboa Stadium, the Hillers’ home.

Because the Coast League had dwindled to three members, San Diego, Hoover, and Long Beach Poly, the Hillers and Cardinals would meet twice and face Poly only in the all-Coast League finals.

RECORD RELAY

Ruffa’s favored team, led by Pohl and sprinters Lou Barrera, Glenn Willis, and Don Smalley, nipped Hoover in the first showdown, 61 ½-56 ½, by traversing the final-event, 880-yard relay in a meet record 1:29.8.

Competition was tight throughout the afternoon, but the Hillers hurt the Cardinals when Willis won the broad jump at 21 feet, 11 inches, and hop, step, and jump at 43 feet, topping the favored Willie Steele of Hoover.

“If we could use Emmet Marshall, Willie Steele, and Jack Kaiser in more than three events we’d have a good chance to beat San Diego,” said Carr, as the teams prepared for their second meeting.

Carr was aware that his aces could enter only three events plus the relay .

San Diego had been slightly diminished when Leroy Sheffield, second in the 440 in the earlier joust, dropped out of school.

Ruffa switched Barrera from the 220 to the 440 and Barrera won in: 50.5.

But Kaiser and Steele upset Pohl with a 1-2 finish in the 120-yard high hurdles as Kaiser set a school record of :16.0.

Kaiser shared first in the high jump with two teammates at 5-foot-6 and Marshall, shut out in two events, got up for second against Pohl in the 220-yard lows.

FUTURE OLYMPIC CHAMP

Steele, who seven years later as a San Diego State athlete won the Olympic gold medal in London and had a career best of 26 feet, 6 inches, got even with Willis, winning the broad jump at 23-5, almost two feet further than his previous best, and the hop, step, and jump at 45 feet ½ inch.

The Cardinals’ Ted Jacobs won the shot put at 50-7½ and Bob Keefe took the pole vault at 12 feet.

Al Salmon won the mile in 4:38.4 and San Diego was first in the 880-yard relay in 1:30.3, but the Cardinals, outscoring San Diego, 37-7, in field events, where it was weakest, scored a stunning, 58-55 victory.

SOUTHERN COUNTIES

One of the few events that went off on schedule in March was the Southern Counties Invitational at Huntington Beach High, where the Cavers set a record with 41 points.

San Diego ran away with the team championship.  Ontario Chaffey was runner-up with 13 ½.

Ed Pohl won the 220-yard low hurdles in: 24.3 and anchored a 1:30.1 relay effort that bettered the meet standard of 1:31.0 that San Diego set in 1932.

Lou Barrera was a triple winner at :10 in the 100-yard dash and :21.6 in the 220 and ran a leg in the relay.  Al Salmon won the mile in 4:38.6 and Leonard Fierro was first in one of two 880-yard races in 2:05.8.

Coronado finished third in the small schools division with 14 points, behind Tustin (19) and Newport Beach Newport Harbor (18 ½).

COAST LEAGUE FINALS

The team championship would be decided by the cumulative scores of each school’s A, B, and C teams, which put some spotlight on the nominally younger, lighter, and shorter competitors.

San Diego scored 71 points, Hoover 54, and Poly 15 in Class A, but Poly scored 57, San Diego 35 ½, and Hoover 26 ½ in the B’s.

San Diego reached only 19 ½ in the C’s, behind Hoover’s 42, and Poly’s 35 ½, but the relatively obscure Jim Springfield upset the Class C field late in the afternoon with a first place finish of 5-6 ½ in the high jump to put the Hillers over the top.

San Diego posted an aggregate total of 126 points, Hoover 122 ½, and Poly 107.

Willis ran a career best :09.8 100, came back with a :22 flat 220, and contributed to the Hillers’ 1:29.5, league-record relay time.  Ernest Collier won the 880 in 2:04.3 and Al Salmon ran 4:36.6 for first in the mile.

Hoover’s Jack Kaiser and Willie Steele were blanked in the hurdles, knocking the legs out of the Cardinals’ title ambitions, but Kaiser won the high jump at 6-1 ¾ and Steele doubled in the broad jump (22-8 ½) and H-S-J (44-10 ½).

DIVISIONAL

San Diego and Hoover were aligned with league qualifiers from the Metropolitan, Southern Prep, and Imperial Valley leagues at the San Diego State facility.  Long Beach Poly was in the divisional at Huntington Park.

San Diego won eight track events and outscored Hoover, 66-38, with Holtville, led by pole vaulter Morton, who cleared 13 feet, next with 22.

Pohl was a double winner at :16 flat in the high hurdles and :24.4 in the lows.  Barrera ran :50.1 in the 440 and Willis :10 flat and :21.7 in the sprints. Al Salmon logged a 4:36.3 mile.

LARGEST IN 25 YEARS

The Southern California finals at Glendale Hoover were a coronation for the Hilltoppers.

They scored 34 points, the most since Los Angeles Manual Arts had 52 1/2 in 1916. Glendale Hoover had 16 and San Diego Hoover 15 ½.

“Even better than advertised,” was the observation of the Hillers by the Los Angeles Times’ Bob Smyser.  San Diego scored in seven of the eight running events.

Willis doubled in the 100 (:10.1) and led a 1-2 220 (:22.6) with Don Smalley, and contributed to San Diego’s school record, 1:28.7 victory in the relay. Lou Barrera was unofficially clocked in :49.8 running behind the :49.3 of Whittier’s O.B. Hughes.

Willie Steele of Hoover soared 24 feet, ¾ inch and bettered the record of 24-3/8 by Bill Bugbee of Redondo Beach Redondo Union in 1937.   Santa Monica’s Thelmo Knowles set a record of 1:55.7 in the 880 and the Hillers’ Lou Fierro and Ernest Collier were fourth and fifth.

Ed Pohl was fourth in the 120 high hurdles, won by Jack Nelson of El Monte in :15.6.  Pohl came back to win the 220 lows in :24.5.

Hoover’s Ted Jacobs was fourth in the shot put at 49 feet, 11 15/16 inches, short of his best of 50-7 1/2, and Jack Kaiser tied for first in the high jump at 6-2.

Hoover’s Jack Kaiser (left) and Willie Steele (right) finished 1-2 against San Diego’s Ed Pohl in high hurdles to fuel the Cardinals’ victory in dual rematch.

RED DEVILS RULE

Sweetwater defeated Grossmont, 66-38, in their traditional dual meet and was almost unbeatable in the Metropolitan League, 6-0 in Class A, losing two B meets, and sweeping Class C opposition.

The Red Devils were led by sprinter Marcos Alonzo, who had bests of :10.2 in the 100 and: 22.9 in the 220.

Alonzo, miler Ken Owens, half-miler Tex Comer, and high jumper Jim Bennett were undefeated in dual meet competition.

ANOTHER “RELAY”

Don King in Caver Conquest noted the speed and resourcefulness of Glenn Willis and Don Smalley on another venue.

One of the sprinters would board a street car using a transfer, take a seat, and pass the slip through an open window to the other, who would then race to the next stop and board with the same transfer.

A SCHOOL RECORD, AT LEAST

San Diego High’s 880-yard relay team competed in a special, high school race that was part of the Compton Invitational two weeks after the state meet.

Little is known.  There was no coverage in San Diego newspapers, but the final paragraph in the Los Angeles Times‘ story declared that a “San Diego quartet set a national record in the half-mile relay”.  No time was listed.

Don King’s Caver Conquest declared the Hillers had been clocked in 1:27.8 for the 880 yards that evening,  The school actually listed 1:27.9 as the record until the group of Roscoe Cook, Charles (Sugar Jet) Davis, Willie Jordan, and Bob Staten ran 1:27.2 in 1957.

The Times story had to have been in error.  The accepted national record in 1941 was 1:27.7 by L.A. Manual Arts in 1934.

It still was an outstanding end to a superb season for the Hillers.

SPIKE DUST

Jack Kaiser high jumped 6 feet, 3 1/4 inches for Hoover March 25 versus Escondido, close to the school record of 6-3 1/2, set by Alvin Cordray in 1938…the Long Beach Relays, held traditionally on the first weekend in March, was rescheduled two weeks later, on the same day as the Southern Counties Invitational at Huntington Beach…Hillers coach Ed Ruffa sent what amounted to a junior varsity contingent to Long Beach and it responded by placing fourth and fifth in such events as the 440 relay, 880 relay, mile relay and the medley relay, the latter in which competitors run different distances…the San Diego and Hoover lower division squads had Balboa Stadium to themselves the day before the varsity squads met for the second time…the Hoover B’s won, 53 ½-41 ½, and the C’s won, 55 ½-31 ½…Point Loma’s Brent Stover set a school record with a :52.6 in the 440…the first San Diego-Hoover dual was supposed to be a triangular meet, but Grossmont showed up with so few varsity competitors that only the Foothillers’ B’s and C’s competed….

 

Kenan Christon sat still and endured three false starts in the 100 meters, cautiously came out of his starting blocks on the field’s fourth attempt, and still smoked a wind-assisted:10.26 in the San Diego Section trials last week at Mt. Carmel.

Christon continued his monster, late-season run later in the afternoon by taking the national lead at :20.55 in the 200 and qualified in the long jump and 4×100 relay.

The Madison senior’s now seeming routine of 4 wins a week took place on a day when rain greeted competitors for the first time in the 58-year history of the San Diego Section trials or championships.

The rain left, but, with a few field events remaining, a lightning threat cleared the stadium, according to Steve Brand of The San Diego Union.  Athletes retreated to the Mt. Carmel gymnasium and fans and spectators were urged to seek shelter or return, posthaste, to their automobiles.

Action resumed about 45 minutes later, said Brand.

New section leading marks and personal bests are in italics.  Marks in parenthesis show where San Diego Section performers rank in California.  National leaders have been added to the weekly bests.

A “w” next to a mark stands for over-allowable wind assistance, which caps at 2.0 meters.

BOYS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Christon, Madison	:10.42 (3) :10.26w	Perry, Alta Loma, Rancho Cucamonga	:10.38w	:10.13 Boling, Strake Jesuit, Houston
	Steward, Orange Glen	:10.57w (10T)
200	Christon, Madison	:20.55 (1)	Grubb, Notre Dame Sherman Oaks	:20.93	:20.58, Boling. Miller, Bishop Dunne, Dallas, :20.52w
400	Parker, Helix	:47.99 (11)	Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Trail	:46.49	:46.22, Robinson, Hazlewood West, Missouri
	Lippert, La Costa Canyon	:48.31 (18)
	Salzman, Calvin Christian	:48.54 (22T)
800	Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual	1:52.52 (3)	Wingo, Valencia	1:52.08	1:50.24, Woods, E.C. Glass, Lynchburg, Va.
	Ali, Crawford	1:54.17 (17)
1600	G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:13.77 (12)	Hibbert, El Monte Arroyo	4:07.25	4:07.20 Sprout, Valor, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
	J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon	4:13.85 (13)
	Niednagel, La Costa Canyon	4:15.58 (21)
3200	Velasco, Fallbrook	9:07.27 (8)	Young, Newbury Park	8:40.0	Young
4×100 Relay	Madison	:42.23	Long Beach Poly	:40.87	:40.08, Fort Bend Marshall, Missouri City, Texas
4×400 Relay	Grossmont	3:21.72	Placentia Valencia	3:13.73	3:10.56, Strake Jesuit, Houston
High Jump	Lugo, Canyon Crest	6-6 ½ (19)	Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos	7-0	7-1 ¾, Marseille, Cardinal Gibbons, Fort Lauderdale
	Brownell, San Dieguito	6-6 (20T)
Long Jump	Christon, Madison	24-0 (3)	Foster Clovis North	25-1 ½	26-6, Martin, Saginaw, Michigan
Triple Jump	Mitchell, Point Loma	48-6 (3)	Hemphill, Upland	48-8 ¼	51-9 ¾, Forde, McMahon, Norwalk, Connecticut
	Cynkin, Torrey Pines	46-5 ¼ (18)
	Brown, La Jolla	46-0 ½ (24)
Shot Put	Boamah, Scripps Ranch	54-0	Viveros, Bakersfield, Liberty	71-3	Viveros
Discus	Peterson, Torrey Pines	160-3	Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor	197-4	209-6 1/4 Lemmon, Fort Myers, Florida
Pole Vault	Rice, Rancho Bernardo	16-4 (2)	Wright, Lodi	16-8	17-3 ¼, Farmer, Lake Hamilton, Pearcy, Arkansas
	Brown, La Costa Canyon	16-0  (5T)
	Volpe, San Marcos	15-6 (13T)
	Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel	15-3 (17T)
	Sperry, Rancho Bernardo	15-1 (23T)

GIRLS

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE	MARK	U.S.
100	Shaheed, Madison	:11.87 (12T)	Nowling, Calabasas	:11.40w	:11.27w, Davis, Oak Hall, Gainesville, Florida
200	Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch	:24.41w (15)	Nowling	:23.64	:23.06, Davis
	Wright, University City	:24.44 (16)
	Shaheed, Madison	:24.46 (17)
400	Wright, University City	:55.64 (17)	Okonkwo, Murrieta Mesa	:54.25	:52.17, Ford, Northeast, Oakland Park, Florida
800	Riedman, La Costa Canyon	2:11.37 (5)	Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo	2:10.61	2:06.1, Mustin, North Canyon, Phoenix
	Morales, Scripps  Ranch	2:13.87 (23)
1600	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	4:48.34  (2)	Barnett, Sun Valley Village Christian	4:47.30	4:44.01, Vanderlende, Rockford, Michigan
	Riedman, La Costa Canyon	4:53.28 (13)
3200	Fahy, La Costa Canyon	10:15.80 (2)	Lowe, Clovis Buchanan	10:12.78	9:53.30, Tuohy, Thiells, North Rockland, N.Y.
	Dorostkar,  Canyon Crest	10:28.14 (9)
	Wallace, Sage Creek	10:35.40 (16)
100 Hurdles	Redon, San Diego	:14.28 (7)	Shearer San Jose Silver Creek	:13.36	:13.33, Jones, Greater Atlanta Christian, Norcross, Georgia
300 Hurdles	Mayo, Grossmont	:44.34 (18)	Glenn, Long Beach Wilson	:41.21	:40.82, Phillips, Bullis, Potomac, Maryland
	Occiano, Mission Hills	:44.64 (23)
	Redon, San Diego	:44.66 (25)
4×100 Relay	Scripps Ranch	:46.95 (3)	Calabasas	:45.95	:44.24, DeSoto, Texas
4×400 Relay	Scripps Ranch	3:55.28	Eastvale Roosevelt	3:43.77	3:39.79, DeSoto, Texas
High Jump	Hickey, Coronado	5-10 ½ (1)			5-11, Renner,  Myers Park, Charlotte, N.C.
	Scales, Madison	5-6 (12T)
Long Jump	Hickey, Coronado	20-9w (1) 20-2	Harris, Upland	20-2 1/2	21-3 ¼w, 20-5 3/4 Bryant, Memorial, Houston
	Hardyway, Oceanside	19-0 ¾ (7)
	Scott, Gompers	19-0 ½ (8)
	Miller, San Pasqual	18-10 ½ (15)
	Shaheed, Madison	18-10 (18)
Triple Jump	Miller, San Pasqual	39-10 (7T)	Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek	41-3 3/4	44-10, Moore, Lake Ridge, Mansfield, Texas
	Scott, Gompers Prep	39-5 ½ (11T)
Shot Put	Tuatasi, West Hills	45-1 ½ (7)	Franklin, Santa Clarita Golden Valley	47-11 1/2	50-1 ½, Hoekstre, Seaside, OregonTuatsas
	Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo	42-0 (17)
	Cardona, El Camino	41-0 ½ (24)
Discus	Cruz, Mission Hills	139-3 (20)	Budwig, Fowler	171-7	174-2 ¼, Meyer, Superior, Nebraska
	Tuatasi, West Hills	138-0 (25)
Pole Vault	Callahan, Torrey Pines	13-6 (2)	Funk, Clovis West	13-9	14-8. Cunliffe, West, Seattle, Washington
	Thomson, Poway	13-3 (4)
	Adamiec, Poway	13-0 (7T)
	Cervantes, Poway	12-9 (9)
	Ray, Rancho Bernardo	12-0