San Diego Section seasonal bests were recorded in four events, 2 each in girls and boys, as the 16 leagues participated in their championships last week.
Scripps Ranch’s Jaymie Rustkovich logged a wind-aided 24.41 200 and ran a leg on the the Falcons’ 4×400 relay team, anchored by Brianna Sproles, daughter of Darren, the popular former Charger and 13-season NFL running back, that recorded a 3:55.28 in the Western League meet at University City.
Garrett Stanford of La Costa Canyon improved his 1600-meter run best with a 4:13.77 in the Avocado West championship at Canyon Crest. Stanford’s brother, Jacob, was close behind in 4:13.85.
Grossmont’s 4×400 relay team ran 3:22.18 in the Grossmont Valley-Grossmont Hills meet at Mount Miguel.
The carnival of races, jumps, and throws moves to Mt. Carmel Saturday for the section trials, followed by section championships May 18 and the state meet in Clovis May 24-25.
Top nine performances this week qualify for May 18.
CHRISTON BREEZES
Kenan Christon didn’t equal his season bests but the compact and carved Madison senior surveyed the five-star layout at Kearny and hummed to :10.45 and :21.28 victories in the 100 and 200 and anchored the Warhawks to :42.73 and first in the 4×100 relay.
It was easy to spot Christon as he warmed up. He was wearing a pair of cardinal-and-gold jogging shoes, matching the colors of USC, whose football team Christon will be joining in the fall.
New section leading marks and personal bests are in italics. Marks in parenthesis show where San Diego Section performers rank in California.
A “w” next to a mark stands for over-allowable wind assistance, which caps at 2.0 meters.
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.87 (10T)
Nowling, Calabasas
:11.40w
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch
:24.41w (14)
200
Wright, University City
:24.44 (15)
200
Shaheed
:24.46 (16)
Nowling
:23.64
400
Wright, University City
:55.64 (16)
Okonkwo, Murrieta Mesa
:54.25
800
Riedman, La Costa Canyon
2:11.37 (5)
Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo
2:10.61
Morales, Scripps Ranch
2:13.87 (20)
1600
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
4:48.34 (1)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
4:49.14
Riedman,
4:53.28 (11)
3200
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
10:15.80 (2)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
10:12.78
Dorostkar, Canyon Crest
10:28.14 (8)
Wallace, Sage Creek
10:35.40 (13)
100 Hurdles
Redon, San Diego
:14.2 (7)
Shearer San Jose Silver Creek
:13.36
James, San Diego
:14.68w (17T)
300 Hurdles
Occiano, Mission Hills
:44.64 (21)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
:41.21
Redon
:44.66 (22)
4×100 Relay
Scripps Ranch
:46.95 (2)
Calabasas
:45.95
4×400 Relay
Scripps Ranch
3:55.28 (16)
Eastvale Roosevelt
3:47.17
High Jump
Hickey, Coronado
5-10 ½ (1)
Harris, Bakersfield Golden Valley
5-10
Scales, Madison
5-6
(12T)
Long Jump
Hickey
20-9w (1)
Harris, Upland
20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside
19-0¾ (7)
Scott, Gompers
19-0½ (8T)
Miller, San Pasqual
18-10 1/2 w (14T)
Shaheed, Madison
18-10 (17)
Triple Jump
Miller, San Pasqual
39-8 ½ (10)
Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek
41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep
39-5 1/2 (11T)
Shot Put
Atuatasi, West Hills
45-1 ½ (7)
Franklin, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
47-11 1/2
Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo
42-0 (17)
Cardona, El Camino
41-0 ½ (23)
Discus
Cruz, Mission Hills
139-3 (22)
Budwig, Fowler
171-7
Pole Vault
Callahan, Rancho Bernardo
13-6 (2T)
Funk, Clovis West
13-7
Thomson, Poway
13-3 (4)
Adamiec, Poway
13-0 (7T)
Cervantes, Poway
12-9 (9)
Ray, Rancho Bernardo
12-0 (19T)
BOYS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Christon, Madison
10.42 (2)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:10.40
Steward, Orange Glen
:10.66 (16T)
200
Christon, Madison
:20.67 (1)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:20.93
400
Parker, Helix
:47.99 (7)
Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Grove
:46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon
:48.54 (15T)
Salzman, Calvin Christian
:48.54 (15T)
Solomon, Grossmont
:48.81 (22)
800
Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual
1:52.52 (3)
Wingo, Valencia
1:52.11
Ali, Crawford
1:54.17 (15)
1600
G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:13.77 (9)
Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo
4:07.25
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:13.85 (10)
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
4:15.58 (17)
3200
Velasco, Fallbrook
9:07.27 (8)
Young, Newbury Park
8:40.00
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
9:09.06 (9)
110 High Hurdles
Sayles, Steele Canyon
:14.69
Marshall, Berkeley St. Mary’s
:13.56
300 Intermediate Hurdles
Solomon, Grossmont
:38.38 (12)
Roberson, Upland
:36.96
Stewart, Canyon Crest
39.0 (22T)
4×100 Relay
Madison
:42.23 (23)
Long Beach Poly
:40.91
4×400 Relay
Grossmont
3:22.18 (25)
Placentia Valencia
3:13.73
High Jump
Lugo, Canyon Crest
6-6 ½ (12)
Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos
7-0
Brownell, San Dieguito
6-6 (16)
Long Jump
Christon, Madison
24-0 (2)
Foster, Clovis North
25-1 1/2
Mitchell, Point Loma
23-5 (10)
Harris-Williams, Granite Hills
23-1 ½ (16T)
Yokley, El Capitan
22-11 (23T)
Triple Jump
Mitchell, Point Loma
48-6 (2)
Hemphill, Upland
48-8 1/2
Cynkin, Torrey Pines
46-5 ¼ (17)
Brown, La Jolla
46-0 ½ (23)
Shot Put
Boamah, Scripps Ranch
54-0 (25)
Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty
68-11
Discus
Peterson, Rancho Bernardo
160-3
Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor
197-4
Pole Vault
Rice, Rancho Bernardo
16-4 (2)
Wright, Lodi
16-8
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)
Clarke, El Camino
15-0 (25)
2019 Week 7: Blazing Christon Starts Run to State Meet
The Countdown to Clovis begins this week as 16 San Diego Section leagues move through trials and finals with an eye on the state championships May 24-25 at Buchanan High in the Fresno suburb, where competition will be as hot as the weather, guaranteed to offer temperatures close to or at 100 degrees.
At the moment there is no one as hot as Madison’s Kenan Christon, whose foot-scorching :20.67 in the 200 meters at the Escondido Invitational shattered his week-old :20.90 section standard, set at the Mt. San Antonio Invitational.
Christon, now fourth in the U.S. in the 200, also moved up to a tie for second in the section 100-meter standings with a career best of :10.42 on the Escondido High track.
The USC-bound senior tied Helix’ Reggie Bush, who ran :10.42 in 2002 and trails San Diego Southwest’s Riley Washington, who ran :10.30 in 1992.
Christon likely will get another shot in Clovis at Caleb Grubb of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who has decisioned Christon once in the 100 and twice in the 200 in meets at Mt. Carmel in March and Arcadia in early April.
Grubb leads California with his :10.40 in the 100 and is second with a :20.93 200.
Christon also moved into first place locally with a 24-foot long jump in a triangular meet with Crawford and host Lincoln. No report on wind activity in that event but Christon’s races at Escondido were well under the 2.0 m.p.h. limit.
The Madison runner could join very elite company should he go on to a California sprint title. Championships in the 100 and 200 are few and far between in San Diego, just five in the 100 and three in the 200 since the first state meet in 1915 (see table below).
There was a conversion from yards to the internationally accepted meters in 1980. The 220-yard race was slightly longer than 200 meters. One-hundred meters is more than nine yards longer than 100 yards.
Electronically-timed races are first noted in David Russell’s 1977 victories.
EVENT
NAME
SCHOOL
YEAR
TIME
100
Jimmy Willson
San Diego
1929
:09.8
Elijah Jefferson
Crawford
1974
:09.6w
Jefferson
1975
:09.8
David Russell
Patrick Henry
1977
:09.61
100 Meters
Riley Washington
San Diego Southwest
1992
:10.30
220
Willson
1929
:21.4
Glenn Willis
San Diego
1941
:21.7
Russell
1977
:20.97w
Four season bests in each of girls’ and boys’ competition highlighted last week’s activity. Leaders through April 26 (marks in italics represent new season or new personal bests; those with parenthesis indicate where San Diego Section competitors stand in the state):
w–Wind-aided.
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.87 (10T)
Nowling, Calabasas
:11.40w
200
Wright, University City
:24.44 (12)
200
Shaheed
:24.46 (13)
Nowling
:23.64
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch
:24.51w (16)
400
Wright, University City
:55.64 (15)
Okonkwo, Murrieta Mesa
:54.25
800
Riedman, La Costa Canyon
2:11.37 (3)
Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo
2:10.61
Morales, Scripps Ranch
2:13.87 (16)
1600
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
4:48.34 (1)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
4:49.14
3200
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
10:15.80 (2)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
10:12.78
Dorostkar, Canyon Crest
10:28.14 (8)
Wallace, Sage Creek
10:35.40 (13)
100 Hurdles
Redon, San Diego
:14.2 (7)
Shearer San Jose Silver Creek
:13.36
James, San Diego
:14.68w (15T)
300 Hurdles
Occiano, Mission Hills
:44.64 (20)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
:41.21
4×100 Relay
Scripps Ranch
:46.95 (2)
Calabasas
:45.95
4×400 Relay
Olympian
3:56.23 (21)
Eastvale Roosevelt
3:47.17
High Jump
Hickey, Coronado
5-10 ½ (1)
Harris, Bakersfield Golden Valley
5-10
Long Jump
Hickey, Coronado
20-9w (1)
Harris, Upland
20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside
19-0¾ (8)
Scott, Gompers
19-0½ (9T)
Triple Jump
Miller, San Pasqual
39-8 ½ (10)
Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek
41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep
39-5 1/2 (11T)
Shot Put
Atuatasi, West Hills
45-1 ½ (7)
Franklin, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
47-11 1/2
Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo
41-11 (16)
Cardona, El Camino
41-0 ½ (20)
Discus
Cruz, Mission Hills
139-3 (20)
Budwig, Fowler
171-7
Pole Vault
Callahan, Rancho Bernardo
13-6 (2T)
Funk, Clovis West
13-7
Thomson, Poway
13-3 (4)
Adamiec, Poway
13-0 (7T)
Cervantes, Poway
12-9 (9)
BOYS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Christon, Madison
10.42 (2)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:10.40
Steward, Orange Glen
:10.66 (13T)
200
Christon, Madison
:20.67 (1)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:20.93
400
Parker, Helix
:47.99 (7)
Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Grove
:46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon
:48.54 (14T)
Salzman, Calvin Christian
:48.54 (14T)
800
Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual
1:52.52 (2)
Wingo, Valencia
1:52.11
Ali, Crawford
1:54.17 (14)
1600
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
4:15.58 (14)
Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo
4:07.25
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:16.90 (24)
3200
Velasco, Fallbrook
9:07.27 (8)
Young, Newbury Park
8:40.00
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
9:09.06 (9)
120 High Hurdles
Sayles, Steele Canyon
:14.69
Marshall, Berkeley St. Mary’s
:13.56
300 Intermediate Hurdles
Solomon, Grossmont
:38.38 (12)
Roberson, Upland
:36.96
Stewart, Canyon Crest
39.0 (22T)
4×100 Relay
Madison
:42.23 (19)
Long Beach Poly
:40.91
4×400 Relay
Helix
3:23.04
Placentia Valencia
3:13.73
High Jump
Lugo, Canyon Crest
6-6 ½ (12)
Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos
7-0
Brownell, San Dieguito
6-6 (13)
Long Jump
Christon, Madison
24-0 (2)
Foster, Clovis North
25-1 1/2
Yokley, El Capitan
22-11 (19T)
Triple Jump
Mitchell, Point Loma
48-6 (2)
Hemphill, Upland
48-8 1/2
Cynkin, Torrey Pines
46-5 ¼ (14)
Brown, La Jolla
46-0 ½ (19)
Gibbs, Oceanside
45-5 ¾ (25)
Shot Put
Boamah, Scripps Ranch
54-0 (24)
Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty
68-11
Discus
Peterson, Rancho Bernardo
160-3
Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor
197-4
Pole Vault
Rice, Rancho Bernardo
16-4 (2)
Wright, Lodi
16-8
Brown, La Costa Canyon
16-0 (4T)
Volpe, San Marcos
15-6 (12T)
Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel
15-1 (22T)
Sperry, Rancho Bernardo
15-1 (22T)
Clarke, El Camino
15-0 (25)
2019 Week 6: Christon Sizzles at ‘Sac
Madison’s Kenan Christon blasted the San Diego Section 200-meter sprint record, vaulted to No. 1 in California, and into the top 10 in the U.S.
The USC-bound senior lit up the El Camino College track in the 61st Mt. San Antonio Invitational, covering the distance in :20.90 and bettering the section record of :20.98, set in 1997 by Morse’s Ike Okenwa.
Christon, who also won the 100 in :10.66, is ninth in the country in the 200 this season.
Rancho Bernardo’s Ashley Callahan pole vaulted 13 feet, 6 inches, at Mt. Sac to move to second in the state, a tie for fourth in the country, and a tie for first in the San Diego Section with Westview’s Kortney Ross, who cleared 13-6 in 2010.
Callahan’s associate, Jacob Rice is in a tie for seventh all-time locally and currently is 10th in the country with a 16-foot, 4-inch pole vault.
RIEDMAN ROLLS
La Costa Canyon’s Jessica Riedman also covered some ground at the Mt. Sac event, moving to third in the state, 15th in the U.S., and 15th all-time in San Diego with a 2:11.37 in the 800.
Kristin Fahy’s, Riedman’s teammate, is No. 1 in California and sixth in the country with her 4:48.34 in the 1600. Fahy also is No. 1 all-time in San Diego with her 10:15.80 in the 3200 and currently No. 2 in California, and sixth in the U.S. .
Coronado’s Alysha Hickey is fourth in the U.S. with her 5-10 1/2 high jump and No. 3 all-time in San Diego. She has an all-time long jump of 20-9 1/2, which would be a San Diego Section record, but is wind-aided.
The Escondido Invitational, which opened years ago as the Orange Glen invite, is scheduled this week and is the last major locally before league trials and the big meets in May.
Marks in italics represent new season bests; those with parenthesis are where San Diego Section competitors stand in the state.
W–Wind aided.
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.87 (7)
Nowling, Calabasas
:11.40
200
Shaheed
:24.46 (8)
Nowling
:23.64
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch
:24.51w (10)
Wright, University City
:24.71 (17)
400
Wright, University City
:55.64 (13)
Babineaux, Quartz Hill
:54.27
800
Riedman, La Costa Canyon
2:11.37 (3)
Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo
2:10.61
Morales, Scripps Ranch
2:13.87 (16)
1600
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
4:48.34 (1)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
4:49.14
3200
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
10:15.80 (2)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
10:12.78
Dorostkar, Canyon Crest
10:28.14 (8)
Wallace, Sage Creek
10:35.40 (13)
100 Hurdles
Redon, San Diego
:14.64 (11T)
Shearer San Jose Silver Creek
:13.36
300 Hurdles
Occiano, Mission Hills
:44.64 (17)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
:41.21
4×100 Relay
Scripps Ranch
:46.95 (2)
Calabasas
:46.07
4×400 Relay
Christian
3:56.37 (19)
Eastvale Roosevelt
3:48.12
High Jump
Hickey, Coronado
5-10 ½ (1)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
5-8 1/2
Long Jump
Hickey, Coronado
20-9w (1)
Harris, Upland
20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside
19-0 ¾ (7)
Triple Jump
Miller, San Pasqual
39-8 ½ (10)
Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek
41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep
39-5 1/2 (11T)
Shot Put
Atuatasi, West Hills
42-7 (13)
Budwig,
Fowler
47-8
Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo
41-7 (17)
Discus
Cruz, Mission Hills
139-3 (16)
Budwig, Fowler
171-7
Pole Vault
Callahan, Rancho Bernardo
13-6 (2)
Funk, Clovis West
13-7
Thomson, Poway
13-3 (4)
Adamiec, Poway
13-0 (7T)
Cervantes, Poway
12-9 (9)
BOYS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Christon, Madison
10.45w (3)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:10.40
Steward, Orange Glen
:10.66 (10T)
200
Christon, Madison
:20.90 (1)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:20.93
400
Parker, Helix
:47.99 (7)
Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Grove
:46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon
:48.54 (13T)
Salzman, Calvin Christian
:48.54 (13T)
800
Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual
1:52.52 (2)
Wingo, Valencia
1:52.11
Ali, Crawford
1:54.17 (12)
1600
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
4:15.58 (14)
Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo
4:07.25
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:16.90 (24)
3200
Velasco, Fallbrook
9:07.27 (8)
Young, Newbury Park
8:40.00
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
9:09.06 (9)
120 High Hurdles
Sayles, Steele Canyon
:14.69
Marshall, Berkeley St. Mary’s
:13.56
300 Intermediate Hurdles
Solomon, Grossmont
:38.38 (12)
Roberson, Upland
:36.96
4×100 Relay
Madison
:42.23 (13T)
Long Beach Poly
:40.91
4×400 Relay
Helix
3:23.04
Placentia Valencia
3:13.73
High Jump
Lugo, Canyon Crest
6-6 ½ (10)
Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos
7-0
Brownell, San Dieguito
6-5 (21T)
Long Jump
Christon, Madison
23-1 (12)
Foster, Clovis North
25-1 1/2
Yokley, El Capitan
22-11 (18)
Triple Jump
Mitchell, Point Loma
48-6 (2)
Hemphill, Upland
48-8 1/2
Cynkin, Torrey Pines
46-5 ¼ (14)
Brown, La Jolla
46-0 ½ (16)
Shot Put
Boamah, Scripps Ranch
54-0
Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty
68-11
Discus
Lologo, Oceanside
153-1
Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor
197-4
Pole Vault
Rice, Rancho Bernardo
16-4 (2)
Wright, Lodi
16-8
Volpe, San Marcos
15-6 (10T)
Brown, La Costa Canyon
15-2 (15T)
Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel
15-1 (19T)
2019 Week 5: Mt. Sac Up After Valley Center and Cerveny Invites
The Mt. San Antonio Relays, for decades hosted on campus in the community of Walnut, moved west about 30 miles to El Camino College in Inglewood a couple years ago and will headline the menu this week.
Mt. Sac at one point was supposed to be the probable site of the 2020 Olympic Trials and the 50 years-plus layout was to undergo a makeover in preparation. The trials now will be beld in Eugene, Oregon.
Outside of Washington, D.C., nowhere are politics as pungent as you’ll find in track and field.
The Escondido Invitational takes place April 26, followed by league trials and finals, San Diego Section trials and finals, and the state meet in Clovis May 24-25.
The Valley Center and Jim Cerveny invitationals were the featured meets last week.
Including dual meets and the 2 invitationals, five boys and one girls season bests were recorded. Madison’s :42.23 4×100 relay and Jacob Rice’s 16-foot, 4-inch pole vault led the way.
Marks in italics represent new season bests; those with parenthesis are where San Diego Section competitors stand in the state.
W–Wind aided.
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.87 (7)
Nowling, Calabasas
:11.40
200
Shaheed
:24.46 (7)
Nowling
:23.64
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch
:24.51w (9)
400
Wright, University City
:55.64 (12)
McCall, Bakersfield
:54.61
800
Riedman, La Costa Canyon
2:13.54 (11)
Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo
2:10.61
1600
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
4:48.34 (1)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
4:49.14
3200
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
10:15.80 (2)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
10:12.78
Dorostkar, Canyon Crest
10:28.14 (8)
100 Hurdles
Redon, San Diego
:14.64 (10T)
Shearer San Jose Silver Creek
:13.36
300 Hurdles
Occiano, Mission Hills
:44.64 (16)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
:41.21
4×100 Relay
Scripps Ranch
:46.95 (2)
Calabasas
:46.07
4×400 Relay
Scripps Ranch
3:57.86
Eastvale Roosevelt
3:48.12
High Jump
Hickey, Coronado
5-10 ½ (1)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
5-8 1/2
Long Jump
Hickey, Coronado
20-9w (1)
Harris, Upland
20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside
19-0 ¾ (6)
Triple Jump
Miller, San Pasqual
39-8 ½ (9)
Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek
41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep
38-3 (19)
Shot Put
Atuatasi, West Hills
42-7 (12)
Ramirez, Valencia West Ranch
47-5 ¼
Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo
41-4 (16)
Discus
Cruz, Mission Hills
139-3 (16)
Budwig, Fowler
171-7
Pole Vault
Callahan, Rancho Bernardo
13-4 (3)
Funk, Clovis West
13-7
Thomson, Poway
13-3 (4)
Adamiec, Poway
13-0 (7T)
Cervantes, Poway
12-9 (9)
BOYS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Christon, Madison
10.45w (3)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:10.41
Steward, Orange Glen
:10.66 (7T)
200
Christon, Madison
:21.32* (T6)
Roberson, Upland
:21.28
400
Parker, Helix
:47.99 (7)
Strader, Valencia West Ranch
:46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon
:48.54 (12T)
Salzman, Calvin Christian
:48.54 (12T)
800
Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual
1:52.52 (2)
Wingo, Valencia
1:52.45
Ali, Crawford
1:54.17 (11)
1600
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
4:15.58 (14)
Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo
4:08.69
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:16.90 (23)
3200
Velasco, Fallbrook
9:07.27 (8)
Strangio, Sacramento Jesuit
8:47.97
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
9:09.06 (9)
120 High Hurdles
Sayles, Steele Canyon
:14.69 (25)
Marshall, Berkeley St. Mary’s
:13.61
300 Intermediate Hurdles
Solomon, Grossmont
:38.45 (10T)
Roberson, Upland
:36.96
4×100 Relay
Madison
:42.23 (13T)
Long Beach Poly
:40.91
4×400 Relay
Helix
3:23.19 (21)
Placentia Valencia
3:13.73
High Jump
Lugo, Canyon Crest
6-6 (9T)
Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos
7-0
Long Jump
Christon, Madison
23-1 (11)
Hemphill, Upland
23-11
Triple Jump
Mitchell, Point Loma
48-6 (2)
Hemphill, Upland
48-6 1`/4
Shot Put
Boamah, Scripps Ranch
54-0
Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty
68-11
Discus
Lologo, Oceanside
153-1
Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor
197-4
Pole Vault
Rice, Rancho Bernardo
16-4 (2)
Wright, Lodi
16-8
2019 Week 4: Fahy Fastest Ever in Section 3200
San Diego Section runners and jumpers warmed to the competition in the Arcadia Invitational, turning in season highs in five girls events and three boys events; the young men brought the total to 9 in a City League triangular meet between Madison, Clairemont, and Christian.
Christin Fahy was third in the 3200-meter run at Arcadia, but her 10:15.80 race elevated her to No. 1 all-time in San Diego. She is second in the state and fourth in the U.S. and continues as the state leader in the 1600 and fourth in the country.
Fahy’s teammate, McKenna Brown, held the 3200 record at 10:15.97 in 2018. Fahy ran 10:16.44 in 2018.
Eric Parker of Helix became the 21st 400-meter runner to break 48 seconds when he moved into a tie for 20th with his :47.99 and also anchored Helix to its best time of the season, 3:23.1 in the 1600 relay.
Madison’s Kenon Christon long-jumped 23 feet, ½ inch against Clairemont and Christian and was fourth in the 100 meters at Arcadia with a time of :10.62, one-tenth slower than his best non-wind aided time.
Marks in italics represent new season-leading bests; those with parenthesis are where San Diego Section competitors stand in the state.
W–Wind aided.
BOYS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Christon, Madison
10.45w (3)
Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
:10.41
Steward, Orange Glen
:10.75w (T14)
200
Christon, Madison
:21.32* (3)
Roberson, Upland
:21.28
400
Parker, Helix
:47.99 (5)
Strader, Valencia West Ranch
:46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon
:48.54 (12T)
Salzman, Calvin Christian
:48.56 (14)
800
Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual
1:52.52 (2)
Wingo, Valencia
1:52.45
Ali, Crawford
1:54.17 (11)
1600
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
4:15.58 (7)
Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo
4:08.69
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:16.90 (18)
Ali, Crawford
4:17.82 (25)
G. Stanford, La Costa Canyon
4:18.15
3200
Velasco, Fallbrook
9:07.27 (8)
Strangio, Sacramento Jesuit
8:47.97
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon
9:09.06 (9)
120 High Hurdles
Jackson, El Camino
:14.95
300 Intermediate Hurdles
Solomon, Grossmont
:38.45 (T10)
Roberson, Upland
:36.96
Stewart, Canyon Crest
:39 (16)
4×100 Relay
Madison
:42.69
Long Beach Poly
:40.91
4×400 Relay
Helix
3:23.19 (21)
Placentia Valencia
3:13.73
High Jump
Lugo, Canyon Crest
6-6 (T9)
Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos
7-0
Long Jump
Christon, Madison
23 ½ (T9)
Hemphill, Upland
23-11
Luck, Mission Vista 22-5½ (23)
Triple Jump
Mitchell, Point Loma
48-6 (2)
Hemphill, Upland
48-6 1`/4
Shot Put
Watson, Fallbrook
53-5 (22)
Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty
68-11
Discus
Lologo, Oceanside
153-1
Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor
197-4
Pole Vault
Rice, Rancho Bernardo
16-1 (3)
Wright, Lodi
16-8
Brown, La Costa Canyon
15-2 (T9)
Volpe, San Marcos
15-1 (T14)
Sperry, Rancho Bernardo
15-1 (T14)
Dudley, Poway
14-9 (T21)
Elamparo, Poway
14-9
Jurisco, Mt. Carmel
14-9
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
MARK
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.87 (6)
Nowling, Calabasas
:11.40
200
Shaheed
:24.46 (6)
Nowling
:23.64
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch
:24.51w (8)
400
Wright, University City
:55.64 (10)
McCall, Bakersfield
:54.61
800
Riedman, La Costa Canyon
2:13.54 (11)
Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo
2:10.61
1600
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
4:48.34 (1)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
4:49.14
3200
Fahy, La Costa Canyon
10:15.80 (2)
Lowe, Clovis Buchanan
10:12.78
Dorostkar, Canyon Crest
10:28.14 (9)
100 Hurdles
Redon, San Diego
:14.64 (10)
Shearer San Jose Silver Creek
:13.36
300 Hurdles
Ames, Christian
:44.71 (17)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
:41.21
4×100 Relay
Scripps Ranch
:46.95 (2)
Calabasas
:46.07
4×400 Relay
Scripps Ranch
3:57.86 (26)
Eastvale Roosevelt
3:48.12
High Jump
Hickey, Coronado
5-10 ½ (1)
Glenn, Long Beach Wilson
5-8 1/2
Long Jump
Hickey, Coronado
20-9w (1)
Harris, Upland
20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside
19-0 ¾ (6)
Triple Jump
Miller, San Pasqual
39-8 ½ (9)
Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek
41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep
38-3 (18)
Shot Put
Atuatasi, West Hills
42-7 (12)
Ramirez, Valencia West Ranch
47-5 ¼
Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo
41-4 (17)
Discus
Cruz, Mission Hills
139-3 (14)
Budwig, Fowler
171-7
Atuatasi, West Hills
134-9 (25)
Pole Vault
Callahan, Rancho Bernardo
13-4 (2)
Sommers, Westlake Village Westlake
13-5
Thomson, Poway
13-3 (4)
Cervantes, Poway
12-9 (7)
Adamiec, Poway
12-6 (9)
1929 Track: Willson Leads Hilltoppers To First State Championship
“Willson, with two l’s.”
Jimmy Willson had been correcting the spelling of his last name since he was in grade school but that changed when Willson’s family moved from Massachusetts and 11th grader Jimmy turned out for Coach Glenn Broderick’s track team at San Diego High.
After a “Wilson“ or two, local sports writers got with the program when Willson ran a 10-second 100-yard dash and tied the school record in the first meet of the season.
Willson was leader of state champion Hilltoppers.
Willson also won the 220 and anchored the Hilltoppers’ 880-yard relay team in a 74 ½-38 ½, dual-meet victory over Pasadena.
The rout of their Coast League rival was the starting point of one of the greatest seasons in school history, in any sport.
–The Cavemen and Hilltoppers, as they also were known, were 5-0 in dual meets, winning by an average score of 71-42.
–They won team championships in the calendar’s four major events: Southern Counties’ Invitational, Coast League, CIF Southern Section, and State.
Broderick went into the season with just two returning lettermen, including two-time defending state pole vault champion Bill Miller, but the addition of Willson and the development of several others promised a talented, deep squad.
Meet by meet with Broderick’s thinclads:
PASADENA
The last time the Hillers had met Pasadena, in 1927, the Bullpups romped, 80 ½-32 ½.
Willson’s :10 flat century equaled the school mark set by Bill Powell and Harry Holloway in 1925.
Miller cleared 12 feet, 6 inches, two feet higher than the next vaulter, and Evan Dowers was a 4:49 winner in the mile.
San Diego won 10 of 13 events and swept the discus, led by Athos Sada, who waved the platter 109 feet, 6 inches, in between playing third base for coach Mike Morrow’s baseball team.
SAN DIEGO STATE FROSH
Willson ran another 10-second 100, which tied a record for the Aztecs’ oval, but Aztecs freshman Lawrence Petersen tied Willson in a :23-flat 220 and defeated Irvine (Cotton) Warburton in the 440 in :51 4/5, which rounded off to :51.8. Stop watches eventually would time all races in tenths instead of fifths.
The Hilltoppers won, 72 ½-42 ½.
SOUTHERN COUNTIES’ INVITATIONAL
More than 200 athletes, almost all from south of the Los Angeles County Line, were entered in the eighth annual event on the Huntington Beach High track. San Diego High was on hand, while other local teams took part in a DeMolay track meet in City Stadium.
Six meet records, including a national-record pole vault of 13 feet, 3 inches, by Bill Miller and a Hilltoppers triumph with 28 1/3 points, were highlights.
Miller bettered the record of 13-2 5/8, but he shared honors with Alvin Koenig of Huntington Beach, who set meet records with a :09.8 100 and a :22 flat 220. Willson was runner-up in each race.
Santa Ana’s Alva Reboin also was a double winner, in the 120-yard high hurdles in :15.4 and his :25.2 in the 220 lows was a record.
Santa Ana was second in team scoring with 28 points, followed by Huntington Beach (23) and Ontario Chaffee (19 ½).
San Diego clinched the team title with a 1:33.4/5 victory in the 880-yard relay, last event. A second place by Santa Ana would have given the Saints the championship but they were third, nosed out by Koenig and Huntington Beach.
SAY, AREN’T YOU…?
Imagine how strong this San Diego team would have been had one athlete made the 1.6-mile trolley ride down Park Boulevard from Roosevelt Junior High to the Hilltoppers’ campus.
But Alva Reboin’s family moved North after his ninth-grade year and Reboin starred at Santa Ana in the hurdles and pole vault.
San Diego’s Irvine (Cotton) Warburton was surprise, gun-to-tape winner in state 440.
LONG BEACH POLY
The Jackrabbits were state champions in 1928, but not a match. San Diego won, 69 2/3-43 1/3, and was first in 11 events, all but the 120-yard high hurdles and high jump.
Coach Glenn Broderick trusted the weather man after days of rain and promised the meet would go on “unless the (jumping) pits fill up with water.”
Willson ran his usual :10 flat 100 and his :22.6 in the 220 was two-tenths slower than the school record. Irvine (Cotton) Warburton won the 440 in :51.8 and Evan Dowers took the mile in 4:45. Without Willson, San Diego won the relay in 1:32.2.
Joe Dobbins was the principal figure in a story recounted by Don King in Caver Conquest.
Dobbins was declared broad jump winner in a heated competition with two Poly jumpers. With teammates cheering, Dobbins apparently had leaped 22 feet when the event judge shouted, “Twenty-two.”
What the judge actually meant was 20 feet, 2 inches.
Apparently no one was the wiser, including Poly coach Norman Barker, Hillers coach Glenn Broderick, and anyone else involved in management of the meet.
The jump went into the books as 22 feet and was a school record until Fred Montpelier went 22-2 ¼ in 1931.
Apocryphal is the first word that comes to mind.
AT SANTA ANA
Bill Miller was nursing sore ankles and did not vault but Wade Potter managed a tie for first with the favored Reboin and his Saints teammate Bill Stiles at 10-6 and San Diego won, 66-47.
Reboin also won both hurdles races, nudging Fernando Ortiz in a :25.8 trip in the 220 lows.
Jimmy Willson, against a strong wind, led a sweep with a :10.2 in the 100-yard dash, won the 220 in :22.6, and ran a leg on the winning relay.
Dobbins did not place in the broad jump, won by Santa Ana’s Norman Paul at 22-4 ½.
Willson scored 11 ¼ points but high point honors went to Reboin with 13.
TEX, TOO
Reboin was not the only transplanted San Diegan. The Saints were coached by Gerald (Tex) Oliver, former Memorial Junior High mentor. Oliver also was the Saints’ football coach and eventually was a collegiate boss at Arizona and Oregon.
AT GLENDALE
Jimmy Willson was clear winner in Southern Section 100-yard dash.
The once-powerful Dynamiters, no longer stocked with such graduated stars as Frank Wykoff, Russ Slocum, and Fulton Beatty, who dominated the sprint scene earlier, were easy for the Hilltoppers, who scored a 71 ½-41 ½ victory.
Maybe the groundskeeper was daydreaming about the glory days of the rapid threesome and erred when he rolled the lime markings and lane boundaries for the races. Either that or the clerk of the course and timers positioned the finish line tape in the wrong location.
The distance for the 100-yard dash would have been more appropriate for the 1928 Olympics.
Willson and others entered were forced to run a reported 110 yards, slightly more than the Olympic 100 meters, with Willson’s winning time announced as a very un-Olympic :11.6.
Maybe they had to run more than 110 yards.
The Hillers could have added to the final score but they lost five points when disqualified for a violation after winning the relay in 1:32.0.
COAST LEAGUE TRIALS
Home team Pasadena surprised by leading with 19 qualifiers, including non-participating field event entries. San Diego had 18, Long Beach 16, and Santa Ana, 14. Glendale, South Pasadena, Whittier, and Alhambra brought up the rear.
The top five in each event qualified for the finals, along with one wild card, to be determined by the respective teams.
Jimmy Willson raced to victories of :10.1 in the 100 and 22.6, and was the relay leadoff man as the Hillers ran 1:31.6. Fernando Ortiz also ran a :10.1 century trial and Irvine Warburton and Maurice Staker each won a heat in the 440 in :53.6 and :52.6, respectively.
COAST LEAGUE FINALS
San Diego outlasted dogged Santa Ana for the team title, 44 ½-39 ½. Pasadena had 19, Poly 17, Glendale 6, South Pasadena 5, Whittier 2, and Alhambra 0.
Bill Miller, who missed three meets with sore ankles, finished second in the pole vault to Santa Ana’s Alva Reboin, who cleared 12 feet and also set a record in the 120-yard high hurdles at :15.6 and won the 220 lows in :25.4.
San Diego offset Reboin with Jimmy Willson’s :10.2 100 and :22.8 220 victories, Cotton Warburton’s :51.4 440, and Evan Dowers’ 4:40 4/5 mile. Willson, Warburton, and Dowers, along with sprinter-hurdler Fernando Ortiz, would be the Hilltoppers’ wheelhorses in the most important meets to follow.
SOUTHERN SECTION TRIALS
The Friday-Saturday virtual carnival necessitated some travel logistics for coach Glenn Broderick.
Don Pearse and Jack Dawson left for Los Angeles on Thursday, accompanied by assistant coach Charlie Church, because they would be required for Friday morning Class B competition in the 120-yard low hurdles and pole vault.
Broderick and the rest of the San Diego contingent took off on Friday for the Saturday competition.
The 1929 state champions, front row from left: Al McGlinchy, Rene Dupree, Ashley Bown, Richard Arguello, Lawrence Crow, Wade Potter, Bill Harvey, Cotton Warburton, Joe Dobbins. Standing, from left: manager Bill Tinker, Maurice Staker, Ed Reed, Bill Miller, Ray Russell, Jimmy Willson, Athos Sada, Harold Crow, Ed Thompson, Fernando Ortiz, coach Glenn Broderick.
Irving Eckhoff of the Los Angeles Times selected 4 favorites for the team title before trials in the Los Angeles Coliseum. “Twenty-five points will win the meet,” said Eckhoff, who chose San Diego, Los Angeles High, L.A. Fairfax, and Santa Ana to battle it out.
TIRELESS
“Jimmy Wilson (sic), midget San Diego sprinter, and Alva Reboin, the chunky Santa Ana hurdler, stole the show with spectacular performances,” wrote Eckhoff.
Willson ran 5 races during the long day, winning 4 and running a leg on the relay team, which was the second qualifier in its heat behind the winning 1:31.4 of L.A. High.
The diminutive Hilltopper won his heats in :10 and :22.6 and prevailed in :10 in the 100 semifinals before setting a school record of :21.8, enjoying the 220 straightaway at the Coliseum after running most of his furlongs during the season on the City Stadium curve.
Fernando Ortiz was eliminated in the 100 but was first twice in the 220 low hurdles, running :25.5 in the preliminary race and nipping Reboin in the semifinal in :25.
Cotton Warburton was third in his 440 heat, won by Rogers of Hollywood in :51 flat. The two other 440 heats were won in :50.8 and :51.6.
Miller was one of 10 who qualified at 12 feet in the pole vault. Ed Reed moved on by making 5 feet, 8 inches, in the high jump after not qualifying in the discus. Evan Dowers advanced, fifth in one of two heats in the mile in 4:39.4, and Ray Russell was a qualifier in the discus.
Al McGlinchy and Maurice Staker did not make it in the 120-yard high hurdles and 440, respectively, and Don Pearse and Jack Dawson were eliminated in their Class B events.
L.A. High led all qualifiers with 9. San Diego, Santa Ana, and Hollywood advanced 8 each.
SOUTHERN SECTION FINALS
The Hilltoppers were struggling.
Fernando Ortiz, leading in the 220 low hurdles, crashed into the last barrier, stumbled and did not place, but Evan Dowers, with “leaden feet and iron heart”, came to the rescue and from behind to win the mile, upsetting the field in 4:32.6.
Dowers ran down Roberts of El Monte after passing Baker of Huntington Park (left) in stirring mile race in Southern California finals.
Bowers’ enigmatic pace saw him lead early in the race, fall behind and take the lead again, but he was in third place coming into the final turn.
Irving Eckhoff picked up the action:
…”down the stretch came Dowers, seemingly barely able to drag his feet off the ground with each shortening stride. Ahead of him as he rounded the curve were Baker of Huntington Park and Roberts of El Monte. They had distanced the field.”
(Dowers passed Baker and set sight on Roberts).
“Ten yards from the tape, Roberts was leading the San Diegan by three yards. But he was tiring fast. His steps were dragging, even slower than the laboring, towheaded youngster behind him.
“A yard from the tape Roberts collapsed, but a fraction of a second before he stumbled across the finish line, Dowers breasted the ribbon, the winner by scant inches.
“That gave the Hilltoppers five totally unexpected points and won the meet for them.”
San Diego scored 22 ½ points. Hollywood was second with 14, followed by L.A. High, 13 ½, Los Angeles Jefferson, 11 ½, and L.A. Fairfax, 11.
PILE UP POINTS
Willson won the 100 in :10.1 and was runner-up to Hollister of Carpinteria Cate’s :22 flat 220. Willson teamed with Ortiz, Maurice Staker, and Warburton in the 880-yard relay. Despite being bumped a couple times in the speedway-like traffic, the group set a school record of 1:30.4, behind Hollywood’s winning 1:29.6 and Jefferson’s second place.
Bill Miller took the pole vault at 13 feet and Warburton was fourth in the 440. Ed Reed tied for third in the high jump at 5-10.
STATE MEET
Dowers went out too fast in the mile, falling out of contention on the last lap after leading early, and Baker of El Monte and Roberts of Huntington Park, vanquished by Dowers in the Southern California meet, ran 1-2.
While Dowers’ failure to place was a stunner, a bigger surprise came when Warburton, running in lane 1, jumped the field early, led by three yards coming out of the Coliseum tunnel, gained the pole position in the one-turn race, and raced to a record-tying :49.6 440.
Miller defended his pole vault championship with a 12-foot, 6-inch effort. Ed Reed tied for fourth at 5-8 in the high jump.
Willson won the 100 in a school record :09.8 and equaled Frank Wykoff’s state meet record with a :21.4 220.
San Diego’s 22 ½ points once again outdistanced Hollywood, which had 16 1/2, followed by Santa Ana, 11, and L.A. Jefferson, 10 ½.
Sixty-one schools, including 40 from the South, were represented.
State track champions (clockwise from left) high jumper Ed Reed, captain Bill Miller and coach Glenn Broderick, quartermiler Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, pole vaulter Bill Miller, sprinter Jimmy Willson, miler Evan Dowers, and 880-yard relay team (from left) Maurice Staker, Fernando Ortiz, Cotton Warburton, Jimmy Willson.
CINDER DUST
The seven-man San Diego contingent, leaving at 10 a.m. Friday, traveled to the state meet on a Los Angeles Steamship Company vessel to San Pedro and then rode a Pacific Electric Trailways “Red Car” to their hotel…they were accompanied by team manager Bill Tinker, as coach Glenn Broderick traveled by automobile later…Jimmy Willson’s victory in the 100-yard dash at the Southern California meet was the first by a Hilltopper and the first time a Hilltopper had scored a point in the event…Willson’s son, John, ran the 440 in :48.5 for Point Loma in 1972…Lawrence Carr, future track and basketball coach at Hoover and principal at San Diego High, was San Diego State’s leading scorer with a 10-point average in seven Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball games…Escondido High fielded its first track team…coach Harry Wexler greeted almost 50 candidates…Wallace set an Army-Navy pole vault record of 11-3 7/8 against the San Diego “Seconds”, who defeated the Cadets, 79-34…Bill Miller’s winning vault in the Southern Section was accompanied by continued jeering from L.A. High students, who favored Romans schoolmate Limeburger, second at 12-6…Coliseum patrons, thinking Willson had won the 220 in the same meet, were heard “razzing” the finish judges…Gordon Jones of Sweetwater won 5 events in the Southern Prep League finals at the soggy (from recent rain) San Diego State oval…Jones won the 100 (:10.8), 220 lows (:28.0), 120 high hurdles (:18.8), shot put (41-11), and discus (99-11 ½) for the Red Devils, who claimed their fifth league title in 10 years…Everett Thurber and George Hoaglund won 6 events for Sweetwater in previous SPL finals.…
