The names that figure to be shouted out in 2015 are Labrie-Smith and Johnson from Cathedral, Acolatse from Mission Hills, with maybe a raised voice by Mongiovi from West Hills.

All were underclass standouts among the women, who made the most noise on what was, at best, another average season by San Diego Section athletes, at least in comparison to most of the other nine CIF sections in California.

Junior Hanna Labrie-Smith was second in the state meet and set a Section record of :41.67 in the 300 hurdles and sophomore teammate Dani Johson ran :42.13 and blitzed  wind-aided times of  :13.81 and :13.99 in the 100 hurdles in the state meet. Johnson set a Section record with a non-wind :14.16 at the finals at Mt. Carmel.

Junior Suzie Acolatse turned in the fourth (:11.59) and seventh (:23.97) all-time fastest times in the 100 and 200. Junior Melissa Mongiovi logged :55.61 in the 400 but did not approach her personal best of :54.70 from 2013.

Madison’s Doton Ogundeji led the men and won the state shot put at 65 feet, 5 1/2 (fourth) but fouled at over 200 feet in the discus trials and did not qualify.  Ogundeji’s accepted 194-5 is sixth all-time.

The edited best marks list for 2014 was compiled by Steve Brand, for more than 40 years an expert and fan of the sport.

MEN

100 (Fully Automatic)— Brandon Lucas (Poway) 10.63 (Tie No. 16 all-time),  John Kendrick III (Morse) 10.69, Dosier (Monte Vista) 10.80, Dickens (Grossmont ) 10.82, Doan (St. Augustine) 10.84, Stinson (Helix) 10.85, Beck (Tri City Christian) 10.85, LeBlanc (University City) 10.88.

200— Lucas (Poway) 21.18 (No. 10 all-time), Doan (St. Augustine) 21.76, Carson (Olympian) 21.82, Dosier (Monte Vista) 21.95, Whiting (Lincoln) 21.97,  Mudd (Poway) 21.98,  Kendrick III (Morse) 21.99.

400—Ezeokoli (Mt. Carmel) 48.11,  Thomas (Scripps Ranch) 48.18,  Lucas (Poway) 48.39, Collins (Granite Hills) 48.85,  Capoocia (El Capitan) 48.91,  DeHaven (Granite Hills) 48.99,  Shaheed (Mt. Carmel) 49.09.

800—Mangoba (Vista) 1:52.33, Greer (Valley Center) 1:52.96,  Soto (El Cajon Valley) 1:53.43,  Kuzminsky (Torrey Pines) 1:53.44,  Morton (Mt. Carmel) 1:53.6, Famolaro (West Hills) 1:54.26, Durall (Del Norte) 1:55.63.

1600—Morton (Mt. Carmel) 4:11.11,  Braude (Torrey Pines) 4:13.03,   Armes (Coronado) 4:13.67 (4:12.09c), Tucker (Westview) 4:14.66, Merder (La Costa Canyon) 4:16.69.

3200— Fahy (La Costa Canyon) 8:53.95 (No. 4 all-time),  Braude (Torery Pines) 9:00.92, Siniscalchi (Westview) 9:19.84, Drisco (Carlsbad) 9:21.64.

110HH (Fully automatic)—Martin (Eastlake) 14.41, Nelson (Del Norte) 14.59, Alvarado (Rancho Buena Vista) 14.65, Johnson (Serra) 14.79, Thibodeaux (Monte Vista) 14.87 (14.73w).

300IH— Nelson (Del Norte) 38.40, Johnson (Serra) 38.63, Lyndsey (Poway) 39.02, Lachica (Mira Costa) 39.26, Reed (Escondido) 39.38, Martinez (Sweetwater) 39.40, Johnson (Serra) 39.62, Grumbling (Oceanside) 39.6.

4x100R— Poway, 41.45,  Steele Canyon, 42.31,  Oceanside, 42.45,  St. Augustine, 42.69, Granite Hills, 42.83 (42.1),  La Costa Canyon, 42.95,  Monte Vista, 42.99.

4x400R— Granite Hills,  3:18.71,  Mt. Carmel,  3:19.04, Del Norte 3:19.20,  Scripps Ranch 3:20.75,  Steele Canyon  3:20.95,  Poway 3:21.49,  Westview 3:24.10.

High Jump— Arroyo (Westview) 6-9, Carson (Bonita Vista) 6-8, Bush (Poway) 6-7, Patmon (Patrick Henry) 6-6, Probe (Serra) 6-6, Benson (Point Loma) 6-5, Hepworth (Del Norte) 6-5, Rettig (El Capitan) 6-4, Beebe (Mater Dei) 6-4, Dumas (El Capitan ) 6-4.

Pole Vault—Bush (Poway) 15-9, Sones (Vista) 15-6, Wagenveld (Calvin Christian) 14-9, Winters (Ranchlo Bernardo) 14-8, Zawadski (Patrick Henry) 14-6, Logan (Rancho Bernardo) 14-6, Rothweil (Rancho Bernardo) 14-2.

Long Jump—Miller (Oceanside) 23-8, LeBlanc (University City) 22-11 ½, Wiley (Steele Canyon) 22-7, Dodds (Oceanside) 22-5, Hennie (San Marcos) 22-4, Rettig (El Capitan) 22-4, Noble (Palo Verde) 22-3 ¾, Bush (Poway) 22-3 ½.

Triple jump— Dodds (Oceanside) 48-1, Benson (Point Loma) 47-3 ½w, Carter (Imperial) 45-9 ½, M. Holder (Oceanside) 45-4 (45-5w), Wiley (Steele Canyon) 44-11 ¾, Brooks (Patrick Henry) 44-11.

Shot Put—Ogundeji (Madison) 65-5 ½ (No. 4 all-time), Braddock (Eastlake) 56-10, Wyatt (Helix) 54-10, Hendrickson (San Pasqual) 53-7 ½, DeMarco (Torrey Pines) 52-5, Hampton (Helix) 52-1, Gonzalez (El Camino) 51-11 ½, Lyons (Serra) 51-4 ¼.

Discus—Ogundeji (Madison) 194-5 (No. 6 all-time), Braddock (Eastlake) 170-11, Hampton (Helix) 168-9, Savage (Morse) 167-10, Lenford (Oceanside) 166-4, Gonzalez (El Camino) 160-1.

WOMEN

100 (Fully automatic)—Acolatse (Mission Hills) 11.59 (No.4 all-time), Labrie-Smith (Cathedral) 11.98 (No. 17 all-time),  Patterson (Rancho Bernardo) 12.00, Freeman (Carlsbad) 12.03, Stallman (Ramona) 12.11, Johnson (Cathedral) 12.12.

200—Acolatse (MH) 23.97 (No. 7 all-time), Mongiovi (West Hills) 24.59, Patterson (Rancho Bernardo) 24.65, Burell (Chula Vista) 24.96, Stallman (Ramona) 25.32, Scott (Westview) 25.36, Labrie-Smith (Cathedral) 25.38 (24.79w).

400—Mongiovi (West Hills) 55.61, Scott (Westview) 56.36, Gould (La Costa Canyon) 56.49, McCarthy (Carlsbad) 56.54, Labrie-Smith (Cathedral) 56.7, Leonard (Poway) 57.41, Chadwick (La Costa Canyon) 57.50, Frank (Morse) 57.75.

800— Sammer (Rancho Bernardo) 2:12.18, Akins (Rancho Bernardo) 2:12.23, Pullum (Point Loma) 2:13.99, Roberson (La Jolla) 2:14.22, Kelly (University City) 2:14.42, Buckle (San Pasqual) 2:14.68, Bernd (Canyon Crest) 2:15.09.

1600—E. Abrahamson (La Costa Canyon) 4:50.02 (No. 10 all-time), Bernd (Canyon Crest) 4:53.05 (No. 14 all-time), Ortlieb (San Pasqual) 4:59.39, Kelly (University City) 5:00.64.

3200—E. Abrahamson (La Costa Canyon) 10:23.50 (No. 3 all-time), Ortlieb (San Pasqual) 10:46.46, LaSpada (La Jolla Country Day) 10:47.43, Johnson (Clairemont) 10:53.74, Garcia (Mt. Carmel) 10:57.51.

100H—(Fully automatic) Johnson (Cathedral) 14.16 (No. 2 all-time) (13.81w), Labrie-Smith (Cathedral) 14.36 (No. 8 all-time), Magdalena (Olympian) 14.54 (No. 13 all-time), Molter (Valhalla) 14.60 (No. 14 all-time), Jones (San Marcos) 14.87.

300H—Labrie-Smith (Cathedral) 41.67 (Section record), Johnson (Cathedral) 42.13, (No. 2 all-time), Bell (Steele Canyon) 43.84 (No. 15 all-time), Curry (University City) 44.80, Magdalena (Olympian) 44.90.

4x100R—Rancho Bernardo 47.82, Cathedral Catholic 47.83, Valhalla 48.37, Poway 49.26, La Costa Canyon 49.29, Morse 49.39, Torrey Pines 49.42, Serra 49.43, Del Norte 49.55.

4x400R—  Rancho Bernardo 3:54.78, Cathedral 3:55.33, Poway 3:55.97, Carlsbad 3:56.20, Valhalla 3:56.70, La Costa Canyon 3:57.13, Mt. Carmel 3:58.88.

High Jump— Curry (University City) 5-6, Callahan (Coronado) 5-5 ½, Rowlett (Carlsbad) 5-4, Snow (Carlsbad) 5-4, Yates (Rancho Buena Vista) 5-4, Mahon (Westview) 5-4.

Pole Vault—Thomason (Rancho Bernardo) 12-7 (No. 8 all-time), Chandler (Cathedral) 11-10, Jackson (Ramona) 11-7, Bartsch (Coronado) 11-7, Farr (Patrick Henry) 11-6, Wagenveld (Calvin) 11-3.

Long Jump— T. Dozier (Mount Miguel) 19-2 ½ (No. 11 all-time), Cromer (University City) 18-5, Kennedy (Serra) 18-4, Shuler (Julian) 18-2, Muhammad (La Jolla Country Day) 18-1, Hasselhuhn (Carlsbad) 18-1.

Triple Jump—Noiseaux (Eastlake) 38-9, Muhammad (La Jolla Country Day) 37-11 ½, Cole (Del Norte) 37-10, Kennedy (Serra) 37-9 ¾, Nash (Calvin Christian) 37-3.

Shot Put— Tausaga (Mount Miguel) 44-4 ¾ (No. 6 all-time), Osby (Escondido) 43-8 ½ (No. 10 all-time), Helgesen (El Camino) 40-4, Mohamed (Imperial) 40-2, Almquist (Santa Fe Christian) 39-9, Altice (Del Norte) 39-7, Jackson (Castle Park) 39-0.

Discus—Osby (Escondido) 135-6, Tausaga (Mount Miguel) 127-11, Nofodji (Hoover) 125-9, Altice (Del Norte) 125-8, Dozier (Steele Canyon) 124-11, Reilly (Valley Center) 123-11, Helgesen (El Camino) 122-9.

Happy Father’s Day!

Oregon’s Mac Fleet defended his national collegiate 1,500-meter run championship with a time of 3:39.09 yesterday, helping the Ducks win their first men’s championship since 1984.

Nosing out Arizona’s Lawi Lalang, who was seeking a ninth NCAA individual championship, Fleet made a powerful stretch run in front of his parents, Dale and Jana Fleet, and  a crowd of more than 10,000 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Fleet is a name that has resonated many years in San Diego track and field circles.

Dale Fleet was the 1971 state champion for Clairemont High with a time of 8:53.8 in the two-mile run at Drake Stadium on the UCLA campus in Westwood.*

Dale’s time, converted to meters, is 8:50.84, fourth all-time in San Diego County.

Mac ran 4:05.33 to win the state 1,600 meters as a senior at University City in the 95-degree heat at Buchanan High in Clovis in 2009.

The younger Fleet’s 1,600 meters is No. 2 all-time among area runners and his 1:50.31 for 800 meters is fourth.

Mac also is sixth in the all-time California prep rankings with a 4:02.9 mile that converted to 4:01.29 for 1,600 meters.  His 3:39.09 1,500 meters in the NCAA event converts to a 3:56.55 mile.

Fleet also won the 1,500 in 3:50.25 in 2013 at Eugene  and ran a personal best 3:38.35 last season.

*That  meet still ranks among the best ever in California.  Competition, before a crowd of more than 12,000,  was so intense and marks so outstanding  that Lincoln’s Donald Tyler, for example, ran a  :47.3 440 and finished eighth in a field of nine.

Tyler’s :47.3, converted to :47.14, has been bettered by only three San Diego runners, led by the :46.85 of Morse’s Lydell Burston  in 1996.

Dale Fleet, a San Diego school teacher, still is involved in the sport, helping out with the cross-country program at University City.

A couple hard-knocking hurdlers from Cathedral and a shot putter from Madison furnished the star power for the San Diego Section in the boys’ 96th and girls’ 41st State high school track and field championships over the weekend in Clovis.

Doton Ogundeji of Madison, overcoming a fouled-filled, nonqualifying 163-foot effort in Friday’s discus trials, won the shot put on Saturday with a toss of 65 feet, 5 1/2 inches, matching his career best.

Ogundeji’s victory, coming in one of the meet’s final events, kept alive a streak dating to 2002 in which the San Diego Section has produced an individual winner.

Hannah Labrie-Smith finished second in the 300 hurdles with a San Diego Section record :41.67.

Labrie-Smith’s sophomore teammate, Dani Johnson, was seventh in the 100 hurdles but her time of 13,99, which followed a :13.81 in Friday’s trials, would have  broken her section record of :14.16 but each race was contested in wind over the allowable 2.0 meters.

San Diego Section athletes scored 58 points total, including Johnson’s seventh, a seventh by Tal Braude in the boys’ 3200, and Emma Abrahamson’s eighth in  the girls’ 3200.

OUTSCORED BY POLY GIRLS

What kind of season was it?

The  58 points were less than the 64 scored by the Long Beach Poly girls.

San Diego athletes earned eight medals.  By comparison, Central Section athletes, perhaps more adapted to the 100-degree temperatures in Clovis and  the surrounding San Joaquin Valley, were awarded 23 medals.

The Central Section has 131 schools, San Diego Section 123.

Labrie-Smith  and Johnson will lead the class of 2015.

Other standouts returning next season:

Sprints–John  Kendrick (Morse), :10.69, :21.99.  Suzie Acolatse (Mission Hills), 11.59, :23.97.

110 Hurdles–Devon Alvarado (Rancho Buena Vista), :14.65.

400–Melissa Mongiovi (West Hills), :55.31 (:54.70 as a sophomore).

1600–Erik Armes (Coronado), 4:13.67.

Long Jump–Jordan Miller (Oceanside), 23-8w.

State Meet Medal Winners

Medals for first 6 places. Points for first 8.  Scoring on 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

San Diegans in State Top 10

() Last week’s rank.

San Diego vs. California

w—Wind-aided.

The San  Diego Section has 16 state top 10 performances, compared with 18 two weeks ago and 11 last week as the 96th meet championships loom this weekend at Clovis’ Buchanan High.

There are many scoring opportunities for the local group after a strong finish to the San Diego Section season Saturday at Mt. Carmel, but the field at Buchanan is as loaded as ever. Some  potential point-scorers:

–Madison’s Doton Ogundeji has to be favored in the shot put and discus, with state-leading efforts of 65 feet, 5 1/2 inches, and 194-5.

Ogundeji was the only San Diego Section athlete to qualify for Saturday’s finals in two events last year.

But the pressure will be on. Matt Katnik of Bellflower St. John Bosco trails Ogundeji by an inch in the shot put and Malik McMorris of Santa Ana Mater Dei is close in the discus at 192.

–Brandon Lucas of Poway is in three events, 100 (:10.63), 200 (:21.18), and 4×100 relay (:41.45). He would have qualified in the 400 but dropped that event in the San Diego Section finals.

Lucas’ best individual event is the 200, with a fifth-best time of :21.18.  Should he qualify in all three, the Saturday night 200 final would be Lucas’ sixth race in two days.

Rumors abounded at the San Diego finals that Poway would make a state meet personnel change, Ryan Morgan replacing one of the foursome that included Will James, Tyjon Lindsey, Lance Mudd, and Lucas in the league and section meets.

–Suzie Acolatse of Mission Hills has come out of the weeds and inserted herself into the conversation  with an :11.59 100 and :23.97 200, both times representing significant improvements in the last month.

–Melissa Mongiovi of West Hills ran :54.70 as sophomore last year and finished fifth in the 400.  Her best this season is :55.61  and Mongiovi  seems to have too much left at the end of her races, but she is a technically sound and fast enough  to hang with the favorites.

–Adrian Mangoba of Vista (who?)  was laboring in 1:57.74 obscurity 30 days before the section final, but took the lead Saturday early in the second lap and no one could run him down.

Mangoba held on to win in 1:52.33, beating back the challenge of Bannon Greer of Valley Center, who ran 1:52.96.

–Hannah Labrie-Smith, Cathedral’s section record-holding 300 hurdler, was among the state leaders since April with a :42.24, but she fell to No. 8 when Southern Section hurdlers blew out some low :42s and mid :41s.

–Stephen Fahy of La Costa Canyon hopes to make a run at Bakersfield Stockdale’s Blake Haney in the 3200.

Fahy’s 8:53.5 is third best going in and Haney, undefeated in 23 races this year,  has not run close to his state-leading 8:46.80 since early April. But Haney tripled in  the Central Section finals, running 1:52.86 in the 800, 4:13.07 in the 1600, and 9:18.1 in the 3200.

San Diegans in State Top 10

() Last week’s rank or not ranked.

San Diego vs. California

Were the San Diego Section trials yesterday the “proof of the pudding” for area qualifiers who now enter the two most important weeks of the season?

Section finals will be Saturday at Mt. Carmel High, followed  by the state meet in Clovis June 6-7.

While the ancient proverb may not apply, San Diego athletes did  not come close to season standards in almost every event yesterday.

Meanwhile, 12 season bests were recorded as the rest of the state competed in divisional meets.  The Central Section held its finals.

Eastlake’s Shane Martin traversed the 110 hurdles in a fully electronic :14.48 for a 2014 best.  Dalish Dozier of Mount Miguel took the lead in the girls’ long jump at 18-11.

Two significant casualties from league meets were Helix’ 4×100 relay squad, which had a hand-timed :41.8, and Scripps Ranch’s Brian Thomas, the section leader for most of the year with a :48.18 400.

The Highlanders were guilty of a lane violation in the Grossmont Hills finals and Thomas pulled a muscle in the Eastern finals.

If healthy this week, Thomas possibly could run a leg for the Falcons’ 4×400 relay squad, which qualified.

SAN DIEGANS IN STATE TOP 10

 SAN DIEGANS VERSUS CALIFORNIA

n–nonwinning. w—wind-aided.  *did not qualify in trials.

It’s that time of year.

Fire-delayed league finals didn’t slow San Diego Section track and field athletes in their pursuit of May-June honors. Seven new state top 10 performances were recorded (see table below).

Poway’s Brandon Lucas turned a wind-assisted :10.64 100 meters and hustled to a :21.18 200 (County No. 13 all-time) in the Palomar League finals. Mission Hills Suzie Acolatse ran :11.83 in the Valley League 100.

Oceanside’s Kevin Dodds moved up in the triple jump at 48-1, with wind, while teammate Jordan Miller proffered a wind-aided 23-8 long jump.

Poway’s Charlie Bush cleared 15-9 in the pole vault  and Mt. Carmel’s Tobe Ezeokoli logged :48.16 in the Valley League 400.

Lucas and other members of  Poway’s  fine short and long relay teams sat out those events but will be action this week. Brian Thomas, the Section 400-meter leader from Scripps Ranch, scratched from the 200 after struggling to :53.87 and seventh place in the Eastern League 400.

Ill or injured, Thomas would have to get a favorable nod to be byed into the San Diego Section trials.

Although she did not break into the state’s top 10, Cathedral’s Dani White raced over the 100 hurdles in :14.28, Section No. 3 all-time, in Western finals.

White’s teammate, Hannah Labrie-Smith, No. 2 in the state 300 hurdles at :42.24,  was cut a break when Long Beach Poly’s Ebony Crear, the leader at :41.46, stumbled and fell in a Southern Section divisional meet.

Unless Crear is politicked into the Southern Section final this week, Labrie-Smith will have one less formidable  rival in the upcoming meets.

Section trials will be at Mt. Carmel Saturday.  Girls competition starts at 9 a.m., followed by the boys at 2 p.m.

State Finishers

OOPS

Overlooked in the table is Augusta Thomason of Rancho Bernardo, who is third in the state with a 12-foot, 7-inch pole vault.