Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56^th state meet in Bakersfield.

Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since the first state meet in 1915.

Banks’ weekend started in disappointment when he was fourth in his heat in :14.1 in the 120-yard high hurdles, but while he tied the San Diego Section record with six others, only three in each heat qualified.

Banks was a qualifying sixth at 23-4 ¾ in the long jump and then essentially ended the competition with a 50-foot, 9-inch triple jump that broke Banks’ meet record of 49-1 and was 33 inches further than the second-place qualifier.

Banks jumped 50-7 in the Saturday final, again almost three feet further than the runner-up jump of 47-8 ¾.  He was eighth in the long jump at 23-7 ½.

“I’m happy I won but I’m disappointed with my (triple) jump,” Banks told writer John Nettles.  “I guess I was disappointed with my long jump finish and I felt sort of depressed, but I still felt I could have done better.”

Banks later posted career bests of  24-2 3/4 and 51-3, respectively,  in the Golden West Invitational in Sacramento.

Jefferson, after scorching the Bakersfield track with a record-tying :09.4 in the 100-yard dash in Friday trials, beat the field again on Saturday in :09.8, but did not run the 220.

“It’s great to win this thing two years in a row,” said Jefferson after officials huddled for almost 10 minutes to determine if Jefferson or Mike Simmons of L.A. Carson had won. “I had a great start and felt I was ahead all the way, but I could hear them coming”.

Jefferson felt a twinge in his leg when he qualified at :21.5 in the 220 Friday night and did not in the run in the final.

5/3/74

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Morse’s Donald Moore ran the 440 in :48.3, fifth fastest in County history. Leaders:

NAME	SCHOOL	TIME	MEET	YEAR
Donald Tyler	Lincoln	:47.2	State	1970
Milton Mitchell	Lincoln	:47.3	San Diego Section (h)	1971
Michael Singletary	San Diego	:47.6	State	1965
Therlee Murphy	Lincoln	:48.1	San Diego Section (h)	1968
Donald Moore	Morse	:48.3	Morse	1974

Moore’s teammates Michael Patrick (:50.2) and Jim Juhl (:50.7) ran 1-2 in another heat.

Crawford’s Elijah Jefferson was an eased-up winner in the 100 and 220 in :10 and :21.8.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE TRIALS, @GRANITE HILLS

El Capitan’s Curt Hampton set a league record with a 64-5 ¾ shot put, bettering the 63-4 by Granite Hills’ George Brown in 1967.

The eighth qualifier in the shot reached 51-2 ¾, good enough to win several league meets.

One of the shot putters was El Cajon Valley’s Mark Malone, fourth at 53-8 ½, and first with a discus toss of 165-7.

Tom Smith of Granite Hills had the day’s fastest mile, 4:21.2.  Tim Earle of Granite Hills won a heat in 4:23.9 and Monte Vista’s Bill Bunting led with a 6-6 high jump.

—Mike Grein of Poway was a double winner in the high hurdles (:14.6) and broke his school record (:19.9) with a :19.7 clocking in the lows, but Mission Bay won the Coast League dual meet, 64-63.

—Willie Banks’ 23-foot, 6 ½-inch long jump, 47-1 triple jump, and :15.1 in the 120 high hurdles was more than enough in Oceanside’s 92-44 win over Carlsbad.

5/6/74

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE TRIALS, @CASTLE PARK

Sweetwater’s Jim Frankson found the usual breezes at the Trojans’ track to his liking, running wind-aided :09.6 and :21.4 in the 100 and 220.

“I wasn’t aware of the wind before the race but I knew there was some,” said Frankson.  “There wasn’t that much wind,” suggested Red Devils coach Gerry Smith.

John Sylvester of Hilltop (:22.2 220, :51.2 440) and Scott Young of Bonita Vista (:14.8 high hurdles, :20 low hurdles) also were double winners.

AVOCADO LEAGUE TRIALS, @ESCONDIDO

Willie Banks won his high hurdles test in :14.8 and Oceanside teammate Mosley doubled in the 100 (:10.2) and 180 low hurdles (:20.4).

COAST LEAGUE TRIALS, @SAN DIEGUITO

Mike Grein of Poway led all hurdlers with wins in :14.9 and :20.3. Bregy of Poway won a 440 in :51.5 after taking first in an 880 race in 2:05.8.

5/9/74

SOUTHERN LEAGUE FINALS, @RAMONA

Christian scored 59 points, Ramona, 55, and San Diego Military 50 in a meet in which 10 records were set and three were tied in the 3 classes.

Most notable was Ramona’s Bob Hunt, who cleared 6 feet in the B high jump, bettering a 32-year-old mark of 5-11 ½ by Gordon of Brown Military in 1942.

Donald Tavie of San Diego Military was a triple winner with a :10.2 100, :23.1 220, and 20-0 ¼ long jump.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE FINALS, @CASTLE PARK

Jim Frankson of Sweetwater ran :09.7 in the 100-yard dash, breaking the record of :09.8 by Bill Huntales of Oceanside in 1937 and Bill Massey of Chula Vista in :1964.

Frankson also won the 220 in :21.8. but Scott Young of Bonita Vista won three events and was part of a fourth.

Young  prevailed in both hurdles events in :14.6 and :19.8, high jumped 6 feet, 4 inches, and ran a leg on the Barons’  440 relay, first in :43.6.

John Sylvester of Hilltop won a photo finish with Montgomery’s Clint Bradburn in the 440 in a career best :50.2.

EASTERN LEAGUE FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Kirk Pfeffer and Elijah Jefferson were double winners for Crawford.  Pfeiffer at 4:18.5 and 9:11.6 in the mile and two-mile and Jefferson at :09.8 and :21.8 in the 100 and 220.

Pfeffer bettered the long race record of 9:13.6, set by Lincoln’s Otis Martin in 1966, and was challenged in the shorter race by teammate Phil Hendricks, who was second in 4:18.6.

Donald Moore of Morse won the 440 in :48.9 and anchored the Tigers’ mile relay team to a 3:20.6 victory, fastest in the Section this year, nosing out Crawford, which ran 3:21, ahead of Patrick Henry (3:22) and Lincoln (3:22.6).

Quinard McDonald was on the Morse relay team and also won the 880 in 1:55.7.

WESTERN LEAGUE, @MESA COLLEGE

Wayne Saxton was a triple winner :15.3 high hurdles, :19.8 lows, and 21-6 ½ long jump for Kearny, which also profited from Ron Means’ :50.5 440.

Charles Bussey of Kearny won the 100 in :10.0 but ran out of gas, as did the rest of the 220 field, which mistakenly raced for 235 yards, thanks to incorrect lane markings.

Richard Paxton of University hurled the shot 56-7 and discus 151-6 and Steve Mowry of Madison ran the mile in 4:20.5 and two-mile in 9:20.4.

AVOCADO LEAGUE FINALS, @VISTA

Willie Banks took the state lead with a 50-foot, 6 ½-inch triple jump, was second to teammate Kenny Brooks’ 22-10 long jump with a 22-6½ leap, and tied the hurdles record of :14.4 by Oceanside’s Mike Swaim in 1963.

Tim Woods of Vista ran 4:18.1 in the mile and 9:22.4 in the two-mile and Bobby Rhodes of Vista was a 10-seconds winner in the 100 and in :22.4 in the 220, and anchored the Panthers to a :43.2 photo finish win over Oceanside in the 440 relay.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE FINALS, @GRANITE HILLS

The first five finishers in the 880 were timed in 1:58.1 or better and won by Granite Hills’ Tom Smith in 1:56.1.

Smith earned a difficult double victory when he came back to win the mile in 4:17.7, nipping Tim Earle (4:17.9) of Monte Vista.

El Capitan’s Curt Hampton won the shot put at 63-4 and Mark Malone of El Cajon Valley the discus at 173-3.

COAST LEAGUE FINALS, @SAN DIEGUITO

Mike Grein of Poway won the high and low hurdles in :14.6 and :19.8 and Gary Hernandez of Mission Bay was first in the distances in 4:22.8 and 9:33.6.

5/18/14

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @VISTA 

Kearny’s Wayne Saxton and Oceanside’s Willie Banks were the stars in the afternoon-evening meet, the latter offering Class B and C competition.

Banks took the national lead in the Triple Jump at 50 feet, 10 1/4 inches, and led long jumpers with a qualifying 23-5 3/4.

Saxton ran the 120-yard high hurdles in a wind-aided :14.3 and the 180 lows in a clean :19.5, and ran a leg on the Komets’ 440 relay.  The Komets’ time of :42.6 was best of the day.

Kearny did not finish the relay in the Western League finals but had been byed into the trials.

5/24/74

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @VISTA 

Willie Banks tripled, but Crawford, getting more than just an expected double win from Elijah Jefferson, won the team championship.

Keith Miles was second in both hurdles races and triple jump (lifetime best 46-9 ¼), and participated in the 440 relay (second) and mile relay (third).  Kirk Pfeiffer won the two-mile in 9:08.6 and was second with a lifetime best of 4:16.8 in the mile.

Crawford scored 40 points outdistancing Morse (29), Oceanside (27), and Kearny (16).

Jefferson tied the meet record of :09.6 in the 100 and won 220 on a full curve in :21.5.

Morse had four individual winners:  Donald Moore, :48.5 440; Quinard McDonald, 1:55.9 880; 440 relay, :42.2, and mile relay, 3:19.7.

Banks won the 120 high hurdles in :14.4, long jump at 23-7 ¼, and triple jump at 49-1 ½.

LADIES MAKE DEBUT

Girls’ track and field, which was introduced as a CIF-sanctioned sport in the dual meet season, was celebrated with a national record by Mission Bay’s Kathy Devine.

Devine pushed the eight-pound shot 51-1 ¼, breaking the record of 48-8 ½ by a girl from Gresham, Oregon, in 1971.

Janice Wiser of La Jolla won the 100 in :10.8 and 220 in :24.5 and Beth Howell of San Dieguito doubled in the 440 and 880.

5/31/74 

56TH STATE TRACK TRIALS, @BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE.

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Jefferson	Crawford	:09.4	1st
	Frankson	Sweetwater	:10.1	22T
220	Jefferson		:21.5	3T
	Tavie	San Diego Military	:22.1	12T
440	Moore	Morse	:48.2	5th
	Riggins	Helix	:48.9	11T
	Klavmark	Patrick Henry	1:53.7	12T
	McDonald	Morse	1:54.7	17T
Mile	Smith	Granite Hills	4:13.4	8th
	Woods	Vista	4:13.7	10th
120 High Hurdles	Banks	Oceanside	:14.1	8th
	Saxton	Kearny	:14.2	10T
180 Low Hurdles	Saxton		:19.5	12T
	Miles	Crawford	:20.5	24T
	Mowry	Madison	9:03.1	6th
440 Relay		Crawford	:42.3	8th
		Morse	:42.6	12th
Mile Relay		Morse	3:16.8	3T
		Helix	3:22.0	16th
High Jump	Young	Bonita Vista	6-4	13T
	Bunting	Monte Vista	6-4	13T
Long Jump	Banks	Oceanside	23-4 3/4	6th
	Brooks	Oceanside	21-7 3/4	18ith
Triple Jump	Banks	Oceanside	50-9	1st
	Miles	Crawford	—	—
Shot Put	Hampton	El Cajon	62-0 1/4	2nd
	Paxton	University	56-10	14th
Discus	Malone	El Cajon Valley	161-8	14th
	Mortensen	Vista	159-11	17th
Pole Vault	Barrows	Mar Vista	13-9	1T
	Phillips	Helix	—	—

6/1/74

56^TH STATE TRACK FINALS, @BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Jefferson	Crawford	:09.8	1st
220	Jefferson		—	—
440	Moore	Morse	:49.1	7th
Mile	Smith	Granite Hills	4:10.6	7th
	Woods	Vista	4:11	8th
Two Miles	Pfeffer	Crawford	8:59.5	5th
	Mowry	Madison	9:03.1	6th
Mile Relay		Morse	3:23.5	7th
Long Jump	Banks	Oceanside	23-7	7th
	Banks		50-7	1st
Shot Put	Hampton	El Cajon	61-9	2nd
Pole Vault	Barrows	Mar Vista	14-0	5th

FIRST GIRLS STATE TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS, @BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Wiser	La Jolla	:10.8	1st
220			:24.2	1st
440	Howell	San Dieguito	:58.5	4th
880			2:18.4	4th
Mile	Greer	Oceanside	5:13.2	5th
80 low hurdles	Wilson	Point Loma	:11.4	4th
440 Relay		Morse	:49.9	5th
Sprint Medley 110, 110, 220, 440		Kearny	1:53.9	7th
Shot Put	Devine	Mission Bay	47-4 ½	1st
High Jump	Gilbert	San Luis Rey	5-7	2nd
Long Jump	Whigham	San Diego	16-7	5th

 

Elijah Jefferson went where no San Diego County athlete had gone in 45 years.

Willie Banks won an event that was known by another name when it was last contested 34 years before.

Jefferson became the first from the area since 1929 to win the 100-yard dash in the state track meet when he followed a wind-assisted :09.4 in the Friday trials with a :09.6w in the finals.

Banks’ 49-7 ¼ effort won the triple jump, an event not part of the meet since 1939, when it was known as the hop, step, and jump.

Twelve years and 14 days later, June 16, 1985, in Indianapolis, Banks set a world record of 58-10 ¾, a mark that was not surpassed for 10 years.

The  gold medals by Jefferson and Banks were the most for the San Diego Section since 1966, when Terry Rodgers of Hilltop (880), Tim Danielson of Chula Vista (mile), and Doyle Steel of San Diego (long jump) were individual winners.

Jefferson’s victory at  Community Stadium in Woodland—he would repeat in 1974—equaled Jimmy Willson’s 1929 triumph when Willson won the 100 (:09.8) and 220 (:21.4) and led San Diego High to the team championship at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

5/3/73

GROSSMONT LEAGUE TRIALS, @MOUNT MIGUEL

Greg Baer became the fourth Grossmont shot putter to reach 60 feet when his best attempt measured 60-10 ½.

Baer, who also won the discus preliminary at 164-7, sensed he was in for a good day.  “I thought I’d probably do well when my first throw went fifty-nine. I never do much on my first put.”

Baer’s father, Marlin Baer, was the Foothillers’ coach from 1956-68 and had another son, Brad, who became one of many in the school to throw at least 54 feet since 1950:

DISTANCE	NAME	EVENT	DATE
61-6 ¼	Ed Speed	@Granite Hills	3/14/61
61-5 ¾	Jim Wade	Southern Section	5/25/57
60-10 ½	Greg Baer	Grossmont League trials	5/4/73
60-4 ½	Dick Bronson	vs. Point Loma	4/23/54
59-2 ¾	Dewey Taylor	vs. Chula Vista	4/17/59
59-2 ¼	Brad Baer	vs. Mount Miguel	4/6/62
58-4 ¾	Clyde Wetter	Southern Section	5/19/51
58-2 ½*	Hal Norris	Southern Section	5/20/50
55-10 1/2	Richard Grise	vs. Helix	4/10/64
54-11 ½	Mel Kemp	City Prep League	5/7/54
54-6 ½	Richard Loftus	vs. Helix	3/16/54

*Norris was granted an extra trial after the competition at the state meet 5/27/50 and reached 60-3.

Curt Hampton of El Cajon Valley was second to Baer with a toss of 60-1 1/2 and five other shotputters had marks of 51-7 or better.

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Sophomore Elijah Jefferson won a head-to-head sprint matchup with Lincoln’s Lanard Morris, clocking :09.9 and :21.8 to Morris’ :10.1 and :22.1.

Jefferson, whose best 220 had been :22.4, caught and passed Morris on the turn and held serve down the long stretch.

Wally Henry of Lincoln won his heats, :14.6 in the 120-yard high hurdles, and :20.5 in the 180 lows.

5/8/73

AVOCADO LEAGUE TRIALS, @VISTA

Robert Mosley of Oceanside took three events, 120 high hurdles (:14.8), 180 lows (20-4), and long jump (22-4 ½).

Vista’s Bill Harvey sailed the discus to a meet record of 172-6.

5/11/73

EASTERN LEAGUE FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM.

Danny Miller, a transfer from El Centro Central, ran strongly all season for Morse but in the shadows of Crawford’s Elijah Jefferson and Lincoln’s Lanard Morris, until today.

Miller set a meet record when he won the 220-yard dash in :21.4, extending his arms skyward and looking back at Morris (:21.8) and Jefferson (:21.8).

Jefferson meanwhile tied James Milton’s league record of :09.5 in the 100, nudging Morris (:09.7) and Miller (:09.8).

AVOCADO LEAGUE FINALS, @ORANGE GLEN

Humberto Barajas of Vista ran 4:24.2 and 9:33.4 for a mile-two-mile double and teammate Al McClure won the high jump at 6 feet, 6 ¼ and was second in the triple jump at 45-1 ½.

The Panthers’ Jay Semensow hurled the shot 57-11 ½, with teammates Cary Cotten (56-3 ¼) and Bill Harvey (53-6) following.

Willie Banks of Oceanside set a triple jump record of 45-6 ½ in the new event and the Pirates’ Robert Mosley won the 120 high hurdles in :14.6 and long jump at 23 feet.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE FINALS, @MOUNT MIGUEL

Greg Baer went 60-8 ½ and led a flock of shot putters that included El Cajon Valley’s Curt Hampton (59-9 ¾) and Jerry Barrows (57-11 ½), and Fahl (55-1/4) and Ehman (53-0), Baer’s Grossmont teammates.

El Capitan outscored Helix, 51-50, for the team title and led with 15 qualifiers for the Section trials. Granite Hills (36), El Cajon Valley and Grossmont followed the leaders with 32 points each.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE FINAL, @RAMONA

Donald Tavie ran the 100 in :10 and 220 in :22.1 to lead San Diego Military, which won to the team title with 61 ½ points to runner-up Mountain Empire’s 38.

Tavie’s 220 bettered the record of :22.4, set in 1965 by Ryan of La Jolla Country Day.

WESTERN LEAGUE, @MESA COLLEGE

Jim Geddes of La Jolla cleared 6-4 ½, breaking the record of 6-4 by Don Sing of Kearny in 1967 and Mike Breen of Clairemont ran 9:19.4 in the two-mile erasing the 9:19.8 by teammate Dale Fleet in 1971.

Aguirre of Madison tied Fleet’s 9:19.8 in second place.

Madison’s Bruce Girasole, defending San Diego Section 100 and 220 champion, and Kearny’s Ron Means were byed into the Section trials.

Girasole pulled up after 100 yards in the 220 and Means bailed after 50 yards in the same race.

Both were fighting leg muscle problems.

La Jolla’s Dan Carlsson, County leader at 1:55.8 in the 880, withdrew with a knee injury.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE FINALS, @MAR VISTA

Jose Medina of Hilltop tripled with a :20.5 win in the 180 low hurdles, 21-7 long jump, and 6-3 in the high jump, edging Bethea of Castle Park on number of misses.

Mike Frankson of Sweetwater took the 100 in :10.1 and repeated with a :22.3 220.

5/18/73

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Cold, windy weather was a surprising factor at a time of year when the elements favor the athletes.  Still, there were some moments.

—Danny Miller of Morse and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford tied the record of :21.4 in winning their respective 220 heats.

—Miller and Jefferson were :09.8 winners in the 100 heats.  Lanard Morris won a third 100 and third 220 heat in :09.9 and :21.6.

—Defending champion Bruce Girasole of Madison couldn’t go because of a persistent leg injury.

—Vista’s Cary Cotten improved by more than two feet with a 58-11 ½ shot put and teammate and defending champion Jay Semensow made the cut, seventh at 56-8.

—Mike Malec of Clairemont (4:14.9) and George Pullen of Grossmont (4:15.9) won mile heats.

—Oceanside’s Willie Banks, nursing a hip problem, missed in the 120 high hurdles and long jump, the latter in which Banks was defending champion, but qualified with one jump at 44-7 in the new event triple jump, won by El Capitan’s Bill Tobert at 45-0 ½.

5/26/73

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

The wind was slightly more than the allowable 4.473 miles per hour but it took nothing away from Elijah Jefferson’s sensational 220-yard dash, in which Jefferson refused to be run down by Lincoln’s Lanard Morris and Morse’s Danny Miller.

The Crawford sophomore raced to the lead on the Balboa Stadium curve and fought off his pursuers down the stretch, finishing in :20.9, holding off Morris (:21.1) and Miller (:21.2) in one of the great sprints in County history.

Jefferson also won the 100 in a meet-record tying 9.6, with Morris (:09.7), Miller (:09.8), Lincoln’s Leonard Moore (:09.8), and Sweetwater’s Mike Frankson (:09.9) chasing.

BAER MARKET

Grossmont’s Greg Baer, the County leader and holder of the County’s third longest shot put in history at 60-10 ½, was third and did not qualify for the following week state meet.

Baer’s best was 59-0 ¾, third to the 60-9 1/2 by El Cajon Valley’s Curt Hampton and 59-2 ¼ by Vista’s Cary Cotten.

Lincoln won its eighth team champion in the Section’s 13 seasons with 36 points, with Vista, 26, Morse and Oceanside, 24 each, and Oceanside, 23 following.

With Wally Henry leading off, Lincoln also won the 440 relay in :41.8 and Henry  won the 180 low hurdles in :19.1.

Oceanside’s Robert Mosley tied the 120-yard high hurdles record of :14.1 and won the long jump at 23-7 ¾.  The Pirates’ Willie Banks set a record of 48-7 ¼ in the new event triple jump.

Vista’s Al McClure high jumped 6 feet, 7 inches, same as La Jolla’s Jim Geddes, who won on fewer misses.  Vista’s Bill Harvey won the discus at 177-5 ½, and Clairemont’s Mark Malec clocked a 4:12.5 mile.

6/2/73

55TH STATE TRACK TRIALS, @WOODLAND COMMUNITY STADIUM

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Jefferson	Crawford	:09.4w	1T
	Morris	Lincoln	:09.7w	7T
220	Jefferson		:21.4w	3rd
	Morris		:21.7	6T
440	Moore	Morse	:50.5	15T
	Riggins	Helix	:50.7	17T
880	Fields	Bonita Vista	1:58.6	17th
	Eisenhart	Hoover	1:58.8	18th
Mile	Malec	Clairemont	4:17.7	9th
	Pullen	Grossmont	4:23.0	17th
120 High Hurdles	Mosley	Oceanside	:15.0	20th
	Henry	Lincoln	—	—
180 Low Hurdles	Henry		:19.0	8th
440 Relay		Lincoln	:41.7	2T
		Morse	:42.4	11T
Mile Relay		Morse	3:22.0	18th
		Crawford	3:29.8	26th
High Jump	Geddes	La Jolla	6-4	1T
	McClure	Vista	6-2	9T
Long Jump	Mosley	Oceanside	22-7 ½	13T
	Wilkinson	Clairemont	22-4	16th
Triple Jump	Banks	Oceanside	49-1	1st
	McClure	Vista	—	—
Shot Put	Hampton	El Cajon Valley	56-3	10th
	Cotten	Vista	55-9 ½	12th
Discus	Harvey	Vista	180-6	6th
	Cotten		170-1 ½	12th
Pole Vault	Hagans	Orange Glen	13-3	12th
	Yarberry	Hilltop	—	—

6/2/73

55TH STATE FINALS, @WOODLAND COMMUNITY STADIUM

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Jefferson	Crawford	:09.6w	1st
	Morris	Lincoln	:09.7w	8th
220	Jefferson		:21.8	5th
	Morris		—	—
Mile	Malec	Clairemont	4:16.5	8th
Two Miles	Close	Monte Vista	9:19.1	10th
	McGrath	Monte Vista	—	—
440 Relay		Lincoln	:42.0	7th
		Morse	:42.1	9th
High Jump	Geddes	La Jolla	6-6	2T
	McClure	Vista	6-0	13th
Triple Jump	Banks	Oceanside	49-7 ¼	1st
Shot Put	Hampton	El Cajon Valley	59-3	6th
	Cotten	Vista	57-10 ½	7th
Discus	Harvey	Vista	181-2	6th
	Cotten		161-1	11th

San Diego Section track and field athletes kept getting better, but so was everyone else.

Excellent marks were posted, some that would have shattered records a few years before, but didn’t earn a mention in this  narrative because of ever-increasing volume, i.e., more and more good performances.

With two qualifiers  in each event, the section advanced 44 entries to the 54th state meet at Las Plumas High in Oroville.

Eleven of the 44 survived the trials. Only three scored points or finished in the top five of their events in the finals.

Whether it was the two-day grind under a hot sky and the pressure of the great event, or that many marks in San Diego Section meets were made on the blazing fast Balboa Stadium all-weather oval, or that human timers either were too slow starting their watches or too fast shutting them down.

COTTON COMES UP SHORT

Most disappointed was El Cajon Valley’s Terry Cotton, the favorite in the mile who ran a career best 4:05.5 but was upset by Garden Grove’s Mark Schilling in 4:05.4.

Cotton had won his trial in 4:11.4, more than four seconds faster than the next qualifier, and Schilling was ninth, running 4:19.8.

“I just ran out of energy in the last stretch,” said Cotton to Will Watson of The San Diego Union.  “I really didn’t tie up in my legs,  but I just didn’t have it for that final surge.”

Schilling, whose best had been 4:09.9, took a narrow lead about 60 yards from the finish line, holding on and breaking the meet record of 4:07, by Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1966.

De WHO?

Escondido’s Tom De Julien, who did not win in the Avocado League finals or the San Diego Section meet, was fourth in the pole vault with a career high of 14-6.

De Julien had cleared a lifetime best of 13-9, three inches better than before, in Friday’s trials.

Along the way De Julien caught a break.

“I broke my pole on Wednesday,” said the Cougars’ senior, who earned the fourth place medal with fewer misses than two other vaulters.

De Julien reported that he had to drive to Lo Angeles the next day to get another pole.   The new implement was stiff.

“I had trouble getting to the pits on my first couple of run-throughs,” said De Julien.  “but I just put my mind to it that I was going to vault with it.”

5/5/72

WESTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @MESA COLLEGE

Point Loma’s John Willson set a Western League record with a :49.0 clocking in the 440-yard dash.

Jimmy Willson, father of John, led San Diego High to the state team championship in 1929, winning the 100-yard dash in :09.8 and 220 in :21.4 in finals at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

John Willson bettered the league record of :49.7 by Larry Godfrey of Clairemont in 1962.

Mike Person of Kearny equaled the meet record in the 120-yard high hurdles that Person set in 1971, running :14.4.

Bruce Girasole of Madison set the pace in the sprints, winning his heat in the 100 in :09.9 and 220 in :22.3.

La Jolla and Point Loma each qualified 11 for the finals and Kearny followed with 9.  Madison and Clairemont each had 6, Mission Bay 5, and University 3.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE TRIALS, @EL CAJON VALLEY

Terry Cotton of El Cajon Valley won his heat in the mile in 4:14.7 and El Capitan’s Curt Hampton hurled the shot 54 feet, 8 1/4 inches but Grossmont led with 20 qualifiers.

El Capitan, Helix, and Granite Hills had 14 qualifiers each; El Cajon Valley (13), Mount Miguel (10), Monte Vista (9), and Santana (7) filled out.

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Lanard Morris’ 09.9 100 and :21.8 220 and Vernon Martin’s :15.3 and :19.9 hurdles victory represented the day’s only double victories but Crawford led with 13 qualifiers to Lincoln’s 11.

Morse was third with nine qualifiers, followed by Patrick Henry, 8; Hoover, 7; San Diego, 6, and St. Augustine, 3.

Hoover’s Phil Eisenhart won his 880 heat in 1:57.1.

Avocado and Metropolitan League team wrapped their dual meet seasons.

Bob Caulk of Coronado got off the 11^th best shot put in area history, 59-6 ¾, in a 61-53 loss to Chula Vista.

Bill Harvey of Vista whirled the discus 160-2 in the Panthers 88½-38½ win over Carlsbad, whose Marquez ran the 120-yard high hurdles in :15.

5/9/72

AVOCADO LEAGUE TRIALS, @OCEANSIDE

The host Pirates advanced 15 entries to the finals, ahead of Vista’s 10, and 9 by Carlsbad, 8 each by San Marcos and Escondido, 5 each by Orange Glen and San Dieguito, and 4 each by Poway and Fallbrook.

Oceanside’s Kevin Muldoon, the top quarter miler, was given an injury bye into the finals.  Teammate Kevin Cochran posted a :50.8 440.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE TRIALS, @SWEETWATER

Gusty winds kept marks in the margins.

Mar Vista’s Marty Hauck clocked :50.8 in a 440 heat.

Mar Vista led with 12 qualifiers, followed by Castle Park, 8, Bonita Vista, 6, Chula Vista, 5, Coronado, Hilltop, Montgomery, and Sweetwater, 4 each.

The records for the Class B 880 was broken three times:

Manuel Monroy of Sweetwater ran 2:06.4 in the first heat.  Ocheltree of Chula Vista ran 2:04.8 in the second heat, and Bracamontes of Sweetwater finished with a 2:03.5 in the third heat.

5/12/72

LEAGUE FINALS

Instead of the first three finishers in each event qualifying for the CIF Trials the following week, the County Coaches’ Association voted to advance the first five in the following:

100, 220, 440, 120-yard high and 180-yard low hurdles, and 440 and mile relay teams.

In addition, more competitors than the top three finishers will be allowed to move on in the 880, mile, and two-mile races, plus field events if qualifying standards were met.

Standards included 1:59 880, 4:28 mile, 9:40 two mile, 6-foot, 2-inch high jump, 22-foot long jump, 51-foot shot put, 140-foot discus, and 13-foot pole vault.

Southern League trials and finals will be at Ramona on May 13.

EASTERN LEAGUE, @BALBOA STADIUM

Lincoln outscored Morse, 66-57, for the team championship and the Tigers’ James Milton was star of the show.

Milton’s :09.5 in the 100-yard dash bettered the record of :09.6 by Vernus Ragsdale of Lincoln in 1962 and Charles Sanford of San Diego in ’63.

Milton returned to run :21.2 in the 220 on the Stadium curve for another record, although timers were thought to have been fast on their stopwatch thumbs.

There had been allowable wind in the 100 and more than allowable wind in the 220, although no wind gauge, usually available for big Stadium track meets, was not on the grounds.

Milton had been slowed by a pulled muscle in his leg three weeks before in the dual meet with Lincoln and had been byed into the league finals.

Lincoln runners David Lamar Leonard Moore, Wally Henry, and Lanard Morris ran the second fastest 440 rely in the state, their :41.6 second to Compton Centennial’s :41.4.

Morse was second in the relay in :42.3, Crawford third in :42.5.

Vernon Martin if Lincoln was a double winner in the hurdles in :14.9 and :19.6 and Hoover’s Brad Davis set a record of 57-8½ in the shot put, erasing the 56-9¾ by Lincoln’s Mike Lee in 1969.

Class B high jumper Charles Edwards of San Diego cleared 6 feet, 3 inches, to top the record of 6-2 ¾ shared by Morse’s Arnie Robinson and Lincoln’s Doug Jones in 1964 and ’66, respectively.

WESTERN LEAGUE, @MESA COLLEGE

Bruce Girasole of Madison ran :09.7 to break the record of :09.8 by Kearny’s Vince Breddell in 1970.  Girasole also won the 220 in :22.4.

Mike Person of Kearny bettered his league record of :14.2 in the 120-yard high hurdles with a :14.1 effort and won the 180 lows in :19.7.

Mark Perry of La Jolla nosed out Mission Bay’s Rory Trup in the 880, 1:56.3 to Trup’s 1:56.4.

Madison outscored Kearny, 50-47, for the team title.  Point Loma had 43, Clairemont 34, La Jolla 25, Mission Bay 17, and University 8.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE, @MONTE VISTA.

Terry Cotton’s 4:10.1 mile shattered the record of 4:13.4 by El Cajon Valley’s Tom Davidson in 1968, when Cotton was an eighth grader waiting to enroll the following year at El Cajon Valley.

El Cajon Valley won the team championship with 49 ½ points to Grossmont’s 48.  Trailing were Granite Hills, 37, Helix 32, El Capitan 31½, Mount Miguel 27, Santana 19, and Monte Vista 12.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE, @SWEETWATER

Mark Kreisher of Mar Vista set the meet’s only record with a 6-5 1/4 high jump that topped the 6-4 1/4 by Grossmont’s Bill Jones in 1961.

Tom Schutte, Kreisher’s teammate, was second at 6-4-1/2.

The Mariners’ Marty Hauck raced to a 1:56 clocking in the 880 and doubled back to win the 440 in :51.1.

Mar Vista outscored Chula Vista, 59-42, for the team title.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE, @RAMONA

Donald Tavie of San Diego Military won the 100 in :10.4 and 220 in :23.5 and led San Diego Military Academy to the team championship.

The Eagles had 47 points to Christian’s 41, and Ramona’s 40. La Jolla Country scored 35, Julian 20, Army-Navy 14, Mountain Empire 13, San Miguel 8, and Francis Parker 6.

Mitchell of Ramona logged a 2:01.7 in the 880 that broke the 2:03.5 record by McMullen of Brown Military in 1946.

King of Ramona ran :51.6 in the 440 to better the record of :52.4, set in 1967 by Burton of La Jolla Country Day, and Arthur of Julian ran 4:48.1 in the mile, better than the 4:51.8 by Darrough of Ramona in 1955.

AVOCADO LEAGUE, @ESCONDIDO

No team scores were kept, but Oceanside had to feel good, especially Robert Mosley, who won the 120-yard high hurdles, 180-yard lows, broad jump, and anchored the winning 440-yard relay team.  Mosley’s times were :14.8 and :19.7 in the hurdles.  He jumped 22-10 ¾, and the Pirates’ :42.9 easily won the baton race.

Oceanside Sophomore and future world triple jump champion Willie Banks was fourth in the high hurdles in :15.1 and second in the broad jump at 21-11 ¼.

Vista’s Vic Scimo was second in :50.3 to the 50.1 of Oceanside’s Kevin Muldoon in the 440 and set a meet record of 1:55.7 in the 880, better than the 1:56.4 the Panthers’ Stan Leonard logged in 1971.

5/18/72

SAN DIEGO SECTION DISCUS TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Greg Baer of Grossmont led with a throw of 157 feet, 1 inch, beating favored Bill Harvey and Haskell Hallmark of Vista.

5/20/72

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Madison’s Bruce Girasole, who won the class C 180-yard dash for Southern Section team champion Costa Mesa Estancia in 1971, logged a :09.8 100 and :21.6 220.  Morse’s James Milton also ran :09.8 in his 100 heat but pulled up with recurring muscle soreness in his leg in the 220.

Oceanside’s Robert Mosley, the County leader with a broad jump of 23-11 ¼, couldn’t reach 20-11 3/4, which would have qualified, and barely advanced after running :15.3 in the 120-yard high hurdles.

El Cajon Valley’s Terry Cotton won his mile heat in 4:10.3, beating Armando Velasco of Fallbrook.  Velasco, who’d given Cotton problems during the cross country season, ran his all-time best, 4:14.7.

Nine runners timed :50.8 or faster in the 440, led by Point Loma’s John Willson at :48.6.

Nine runners ran 1:58.2 or faster in the 880, led by Vista’s Vic Scimo at 1:55.

5/27/72

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Madison’s Bruce Girasole won the 100-yard dash in 09.6 and 220 in :21.4, both meet records.

“I just kept looking ahead (in the 100),” said Girasole. “because I thought (Lanard) Morris would make a charge.

“I would have been more psyched up if (James) Milton had been in there.  I knew he’d make an effort because he was No. 1 all year.

Lincoln’s Lenard Morris was second in :09.8 in the 100 but Milton, with leg problems all year, scratched after anchoring Morse to fourth in the 440 relay.

Girasole had traveled to Norwalk the night before to watch the Southern Section finals.  “I was in bed by 1, though.  I still like to keep track of those guys.”

Vista’s Vic Scimo ran the 10th fastest 880 in County history, 1:53.5 and teammates Jay Semensow and Bill Harvey won the shot put and discus, respectively, at 59-2 ¾ and 164-9.

Kearny’s Mike Person tied the high hurdles record of :14.1, shared by Lincoln’s David Edwards (1966), Doug Jones (’68), and Wes Babcock (’71).

Oceanside sophomore Willie Banks won the broad jump with a leap of 23-4 ¼.

Best mark of the day was by El Cajon Valley’s Terry Cotton.

Cotton ran laps of :60.1, :62.4, 65.6, and :60 that got Cotton home in 4:08,1.

Pre-meet favorite Lincoln was fifth with 13 points as Vista (32) and Oceanside (30) formed a powerful, North County 1-2.  Madison was third with 21.6.

6/2/72

54^TH STATE TRACK TRIALS, @LAS PLUMAS HIGH, OROVILLE

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100 Yards	Girasole	Madison	:09.9	T6th
	Morris	Lincoln	:10.2	—
220 Yards	Girasole		:21.7	6th
	Finn	La Jolla	:22.6	—
440 Yards	Willson	Point Loma	49.2	7th
	Haynes	Mission Bay	:50.8	—
880 Yards	Scimo	Vista	1:53.9	8th
	Trup	Mission Bay	1:55.3	—
Mile	Cotton	El Cajon Valley	4:11.4	1st
	Velasco	Fallbrook	4:18.4	5th
120-yard high hurdles	Person	Kearny	:14.4	9th
	Mosley	Oceanside	:14.9	—
180-yard low hurdles	Henry	Lincoln	:19.7	12th
	Mosley			—
High Jump	Green	Oceanside	6-4	T1.
	Walker	Morse	6-2	14th
Long Jump	Banks	Oceanside	22-4 ½	14th
	Baldwin	Patrick Henry	22-0	15th
Shot Put	Caulk	Coronado	59-7	5th
	Semensow	Vista	59-0 ½	8th
Discus	Hallmark	Vista	159-9	12th
	Harvey	Vista	153-6	15th
Pole Vault	De Julien	Escondido	13-9	T1
	Kurtz	Madison	—	—
4×110 Relay		Crawford	:42.8	17th
4x440Relay		Oceanside	:43.2	18th

TWO-MILE RUN FINALS

	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
	Close	Monte Vista	—	—
	Dick	San Dieguito	—	—

6/3/72

54^TH STATE TRACK MEET, @OROVILLE LAS PLUMAS HIGH

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100 Yards	Bruce Girasole	Madison	:09.9	7th
220 yards	Girasole		:21.7	5th
880 yards	Vic Scimo	Vista	1:54.4	8th
Mile	Terry Cotton	El Cajon Valley	4:05.5	2nd
	Alberto Velasco	Fallbrook	4:17.5	6th
120-yard high hurdles	Mike Person	Kearny	—	—
High Jump	Ed Green	Oceanside	6-0	13th
Shot Put	Jay Semensow	Vista	56-10 1/2	11th
Pole Vault	Mike DeJulien	Escondido	14-6	4th

It almost was all quiet on the San Diego County track and field front.

Pole vaulter Bob Henderson of San Diego high tied for second in the state meet at 12 feet, 9 inches, and was the only local entry to score.

Henderson had a career best of 13 feet and teammate Ben Sohn was one of the better shot putters in Southern California with a best of 50 feet, 8 1/4 inches.

4/2/36

Metropolitan League nomenclature was changing.

A Class C competition was being added in the upcoming league meet at San Diego State and joined by Class A and Class B entries.

The Metro was formed in 1933 and league championship meets in the first three years included two classes, Unlimited and Limited.

Classes are to be determined by exponents, i.e., height, weight, and age.

With 259 entries from eight schools, competition will begin at 10 a.m. and continue until the late afternoon, according to meet director Morris Gross.

4/4/36

Rain washed out the Metropolitan League championships at San Diego State.

4/11/36

San Diego won the sponsored De Molay track meet, part of the Pacific Exposition in Balboa Park and on an apparent temporary track and field site at the Exposition site.

The Hilltoppers had 38 points, followed by Whittier, 33; Montebello, 32; Compton, 21; Sweetwater, 5; Oceanside 3, and Point Loma, Huntington Beach, Coronado, Hoover, and Santa Ana, 1 each.

Five-foot, 8-inch Bob Henderson won two of the Hilltoppers’ five first places, pole vaulting 12 feet, 9 inches, and high jumping 5-11 ¾.

Ben Sohn hurled the shot 50-8 ¼, bettering the school record of 49-6 ½ by Ray Russell in 1930.  Leslie Webb won the 120-yard high hurdles in :16.6 and C.P. McVay won the discus throw at 117-7.

Virgil DeLapp of Montebello created buzz when he won the 880-yard run in a blazing 1:54.6, but twice around the track oval was determined to cover only 796 yards.

4/17/36

San Diego was first in 10 of 13 events and won its Coast League meet at Santa Ana, 83-30.

Ben Sohn won the shot put at 50-3, Bob Henderson the pole vault at 12-3, and Jerry Rudrauff the broad jump at 21-8 1/2.

Bob Henderson and sophomore future star Bob Logan tied for first in the high jump, each clearing 5-9 7/8.

4/18/36

Grossmont coach Ladimir (Jack) Mashin, described as the “Greyhound of the Foothills,” (later known as the Fox of the Foothills) suggested to fellow coaches during the San Diego State-La Verne-Whittier triangular meet that Mashin could run eight laps on the Aztecs’ oval in 14 minutes.

Coaches Hal Niedermeyer of Coronado; Lawrence Carr of La Jolla, and Joe Beerkle of Point Loma, and two others each ponied up $1.

Mashin covered the two miles in 13:43.5 and walked away with $5.

—Hoover’s Don Grenfell was reported to be timed in :22.2 for first place in the 220 in the Davis Relays, near Sacramento.

4/20/36

Billy Gray set a Grossmont school record when he ran :25.5 in the 220 low hurdles at San Diego State, where the Aztec freshmen defeated the Foothillers, 71-28.

4/21/36

San Diego outscored Hoover, 82-31, in their annual dual meet, and set four meet records.

Leslie Webb ran the 120-yard high hurdles in :15.9.  Bob Henderson pole vaulted 12 feet, 9 inches. C.P. McVay whirled the discus 114-6, and Ben Sohn heaved the shot 48-9 ½.

Dick Grenfell was a double winner for Hoover, :10.1 in the 100-yard dash and :23.2 in the 220.

Jerry Rudrauff of San Diego won the broad jump with a leap of 22-1 ½.

4/23/36

Grossmont’s Billy Gray, who set a school record three days before in the 220-yard low hurdles and a consistent 45-foot shot putter, was declared ineligible for the Metropolitan League finals.

CIF boss Seth Van Patten upheld a league ruling after Grossmont coach Jack Mashin took the matter to the higher authority for clarification.

Metro bosses cited Gray for playing in a Sunday baseball game on April 12, a week after the original date of the league track finals.

Someone in the Metro ratted out Gray for a seemingly minor transgression.

4/24/36

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE FINALS @SAN DIEGO STATE

Grossmont could not defend its league championship, finishing fourth in team standings, the loss of Gray meaning expected points in the hurdles and shot put, and in the 880-yard relay, in which the Foothillers did not run.

Oceanside was first in Class A with 48 points.  La Jolla led Class B with 45 points, and Coronado’s 35 was first in Class C.

A total of 22 records were set in the 32 events.

Oceanside’s Billy Huntales raced to a :10.2 win in the 100 and broad jumped 21-6 for two Class A records.

Jerry Soule of La Jolla set three Class B records, 5-10 ½ high jump, :09.6 70-yard high hurdles, and :14.4 120-yard low hurdles and Class C teammate Jim Tripp also tripled, :10.8 100, 20-6 broad jump, and record, :24.8 220.

—San Diego went North to Alhambra without shot putter Ben Sohn, who apparently missed the bus. The Hilltoppers still won, 72 ½-46 ½, and Charles Bell, not Jerry Rudrauff, was reported to have won the broad jump at 22 feet, 2 inches.

5/2/36

BAY LEAGUE FINALS, @LONG BEACH WILSON

Hoover was seventh in a field of seven teams with 12 points as the Wilson Bruins ran away with the team championship with 64 ½ points, outdistancing Santa Monica, which had 35 ½.

Hoover’s Dave Grenfell was fourth in the 100 and third in the 220, races with winning times of :10 and :21.7.

Hoover’s Bud Berg was timed in 2:04.2 and was fifth in the 880 behind the winning 2:02.7.

The Cardinals also were last in Class B with 6 points and were blanked in Class C.

COAST LEAGUE FINALS, @ALHAMBRA

Glenn Broderick’s Hilltoppers rebounded from the 59 ½-53 ½ dual meet loss to Long Beach Poly.

The border city team won two events and tied for first in another, enough for the Hilltoppers to edge Long Beach Poly, 65 1/6-61 2/3, in the team race.

Leslie Webb’s :16.1 in the 120-yard high hurdles, Bob Henderson’s 13-foot pole vault, and Rudy Gonzalez’ 6-1 ¾ high jump, which was matched by a Long Beach Wilson jumper, put  Broderick’s thinclads over the top.

5/8/36

CIF DIVISIONAL, @SAN DIEGO STATE

Bill Huntales won a heat in the 100-yard dash in :10.2 and broad jumped 22 feet, 1/2 inch to lead Oceanside to the team lead with 38 points.

Entries were from the Metropolitan and Imperial Valley leagues.

First-place finishers automatically qualified.  Others could advance after their marks were compared with those from other divisional meets.

5/8/36

CIF DIVISIONAL, @GLENDALE HOOVER

San Diego High entries were aligned against qualifiers from the Bay, Foothill, and Prep leagues.

Bob Henderson of San Diego tied for first with Dave Bodkins of Inglewood at 13 feet in the pole vault.  Hilltopper John Barnhill also qualified, but did not clear 12-3.

Ben Sohn of San Diego was second in the shot put at 48-9 ¼ and teammate Jerry Rudrauff was third in the broad jump at 21-5.

CIF FINALS, @LONG BEACH WILSON

5/16/36

San Diego scored 9 ½ points to finish sixth in team scoring as seven Wilson athletes scored 27 ½ points.

Los Angeles Jefferson, 1935 champion, did not participate as the school had joined others in forming the L.A. City Section.

Pasadena Muir was second with 14 ½, fired by the early-in-the-meet victory at 23 feet, ¾ inches in the broad jump by Jackie Robinson.

Eddie Arnold, Robinson’s teammate, won the Class B broad jump at 23-2 ½.

Bob Henderson of San Diego tied for first with Dave Bodkins of Inglewood at 12-6 in the pole vault; Henderson’s teammate, John  Barnhill, was third at 12 feet, and Ben Sohn was fourth with a 50-2 ¼ effort in the shot put.

5/23/36

22nd STATE MEET, @GRIDLEY HIGH.

About 125 athletes, including one from San Diego, competed in 90-degree weather at the high school 55 miles North of Sacramento.

Bob Henderson of San Diego tied for second in the pole vault with Jim Peterson of Carpinteria, behind the 12-11 by Dave Bodkins of Inglewood.

Pasadena Muir Tech, aided by a CIF decision to allow Southern Section Class B broad jump champion Eddie Arnold to compete, upset Long Beach Wilson, 18-15 in final point totals.

Arnold, who set a Class B meet record of 23-2 ½ a week before, won the event with a jump of 23-1 ¾.  Jackie Robinson was not listed as placing in the top five.

Sophomores Alison Dring of Mt. Carmel and Erin Blunt of San Pasqual gave promise but only four of the original 45 qualifiers from the San Diego Section finished in the top five in finals at the state meet.

6/1/90

17^TH GIRLS STATE TRACK TRIALS, @CERRITOS COLLEGE, NORWALK

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Kimmey	University City	:12.10	8th*
	McKinney	Monte Vista	:12.20	10th
	Henderson	Morse	:12.28	13th
200	Dring	Mt. Carmel	:25.11	10th
	Henderson	Morse	:25.16	11th
	Kimmey		—	—
400	Dring		:55.55	2nd*
	Bugg	Patrick Henry	:57.59	7th*
	Freeman	Crawford	—	—
800	Stowell	Mt. Carmel	2:16.78	12th
	Scott	Mt. Carmel	2:18.57	19th
	Schoene	La Jolla	2:24.07	26th
1600	Schiebel	Orange Glen	5:10.83	14th
	Faye	San Pasqual	5:11.50	15th
	Ferguson	La Jolla	5:14.10	17th
100 Hurdles	Dill	Poway	:14.17w	2nd*
	Blunt	San Pasqual	:14.60	13th
300 Hurdles	Blunt		:44.05	6th*
	Dill		:46.69	19th
4×100 Relay		Morse	:48.37	12th
		Mt. Carmel	:48.87	13th
		Lincoln	:48.95	16th
4×400 Relay		Mt. Carmel	3:56.27	10th
		San Pasqual	3:56.39	11th
		Lincoln	4:01.05	16th
High Jump	Armstrong	Torrey Pines	5-4	8T*
	Weeks	Madison
	Barnes	Granite Hills	5-0	20T
Long Jump	Crisell	Fallbrook	16-9	18th
	Conston	Oceanside	16-3 ½	20th
Triple Jump	Sims	Oceanside	38-3/4	6th*
	Harrison	Mount Miguel	37-3 ¼	9th*
	Andrews	Torrey Pines	35-8 ¾	16th
Shot Put	Houston	Montgomery	39-2 ¾	10th*
	Bailey	Ramona	36-5 ¼	19th
	Beers	Poway	—	—
Discus	Bihis	Mt. Carmel	139-6	6th*
	Wadlington	Granite Hills	118-9	20th
	Allen	El Capitan	109-02	23rd

6/2/90

17^TH GIRLS STATE FINALS, CERRITOS COLLEGE, NORWALK

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Kimmey	University	:12.10	5th
400	Dring	Mt. Carmel	:55.07	3rd
	Bugg	Patrick Henry	—	—
3200	Glusac	Fallbrook	11:10.01	7th
	Armstrong	San Dieguito	11:10.69	11th
	Villareal	La Jolla	11:13.73	15th
100 Hurdles	Dill	Poway	:14.19	5th
300 Hurdles	Blunt	San Pasqual	:43.95	7th
High Jump	Armstrong	Torrey Pines	5-6	7th
Triple Jump	Sims	Oceanside	38-2 ½	2nd
	Harrison	Mount Miguel	36-5	8th
	Bihis	Mt. Carmel	133-6	8th

Seventeen of 48 qualifiers from the San Diego Section finals advanced from the 72^nd state meet trials at Cerritos College in Norwalk, including San Diego Section all-timers, Brent Noon of Fallbrook and Jerome Price of University City.

Nine of the 17, or 53 per cent, scored points based on at least a top six finish in the finals.

Noon, the 1969 state champion at 66-1 ½, defended his shot put title with a throw of 74 feet, 4 3/4 inches and came close to the national record of 77 feet in another competition, with a career best of 76-2.

The nearest anyone would come to Noon’s CIF meet standard in the next 30-plus years was more than two feet less, 72-0 by Matt Katnik of Bellflower St. John Bosco in 2015.

Noon was second in the discus at 200-8, his all-time best despite still recovering from a sore hamstring muscle.

Price won the long jump at 25-3 ½, and had several legal and wind-sided attempts trying to break Doyle Steel’s Section record of 25-5 ¼, once jumping 25-8 with more than the allowable wind allowance.

Sophomore Riley Washington of San Diego Southwest gave notice of what to expect in the future, finishing third in the 100 meters in :10.70.

5/3/90

Fallbrook’s Brent Noon hurled the shot 76 feet, 2 inches, a personal improvement of almost two feet in a dual meet with Torrey Pines.

Noon’s distance, second best all-time in the U.S., moved him closer to the accepted national record of 77 feet by Michael Carter of Jefferson high in Dallas in 1979.  Carter had a throw of 81-3 ½ in the postseason Golden West Invitational.

Noon also set a personal best and a San Diego Section record with a 196-6 effort in the discus, bettering Billy Joe Winchester’s 195-8 in 1970.

—Pat Pidgeon of St. Augustine became the first record holder in the first Harbor League finals, clearing 13 feet in the league meet at Balboa Stadium.

–Scott Hammond ran the 100 meters in :10.6 as Lincoln clinched the Eastern League dual championship, 71-54 over Crawford.

5/9/90

BOYS

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

George Denny of Morse won a 400 heat in :49.2 and ran a leg on the Tigers’ 400 relay team that included Brian Griffith, Teddy Lawrence, and Stephan McQueen.  The Tigers quartet was timed in :42.1.

Patrick Henry’s David Gregory (:49.5) and Mira Mesa’s Sean Cahill (:50) ran 1-2 in another 400 heat.

AVOCADO LEAGUE TRIALS, @MIRACOSTA COLLEGE

Pulu Poumele of Oceanside (51-11 ¾) edged Junior Cienega of Escondido (51-11 3/8) in the shot put, setting up a rematch in the finals.

5/10/90

FINALS

PALOMAR @MIRACOSTA COLLEGE

Poway’s Steve Pomiak was a triple winner and named athlete of the meet.  Patrick won the 100-meter dash in :11. 200 in :22.8, and long jumped 22 feet, 7 inches.

Fallbrook’s Brent Noon set a San Diego Section record in the discus with a throw of 195-9, topping the 1970 mark of 195-8 by Mount Miguel’s Billy Joe Winchester.

5/11/90

PALOMAR SHOT PUT, @ORANGE GLEN

Brent Noon of Fallbrook smashed his meet record with an effort of 75 feet, 2 inches.

METROPOLITAN, @HILLTOP

Riley Washington of San Diego Southwest won the 100 (:10.80), and 220 (:21.7) and was a member of the winning 4×100 (:43.5) and 4×1600 (3:30.4) relay teams.

Castle Park’s Eric Bell struck four hurdles but still managed to finish the 110 highs in :14.8 and won the 300 barriers in :40.2.

Hector Hernandez of Mar Vista won the mile in 4:27.8 and two-mile in 9:54.7.

AVOCADO, @ MIRACOSTA COLLEGE

Junior Cienega of Escondido won the shot put showdown with Oceanside’s Pulu Poumele, 56-2 ¾-53-0.

Escondido doubled in the relays, :42.9 in the 4×100 and 3:24.3 in the 4×1600.  The Cougars Keith Williams  was byed into the CIF trials in the 300 hurdles.

GROSSMONT 3-A, @HELIX

El Capitan edged Helix, 75-74, for the team championship, with Granite Hills at 73 ½, Monte Vista, 32, and Mount Miguel, 19.

David Loshenkohl of Granite Hills was a double winner, 53-8 ½ in the shot put and 145-4 in the discus. Chris Ruff of El Capitan won the 110 hurdles in :14.9, 300 hurdles in :40.5, and ran a leg for the Eagles’ 4×1600 relay.

GROSSMONT 2-A, @HELIX

Santana outscored Grossmont, 96-71, for the team title.  El Cajon Valley had 63 points, Valhalla 31, and West Hills 28.

5/16/90

Brent Noon sustained a leg injury in the Palomar League finals but would be denied a request to be byed into the Section finals in the shot put and discus, according to CIF commissioner Kendall (Spider) Webb.

5/19/90

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Allowable wind is 2.04 meters, so Jerome Price’s 25-foot, 8-inch long jump, while better than Doyle Steel’s 25-5 ¼ in 1966, was not a record.

Nor was another wind-sided jump of 25-3, so the University City jumper settled for 25-0 ¾, second longest in County history and No. 1 in the state.

Morse’s Teddy Lawrence was second with a jump of 23-4.

San Diego Southwest sophomore Riley Washington won a heat in the 100 meters in :10.72 and Kearny’s Darnay Scott lowered the season best in the 220 to :21.55.

OTHER SEASON BESTS

Eric Bell, Castle Park, :14.46, 110 high hurdles.

Hector Hernandez, Mar Vista, 4:19.2 1600.

Lincoln 4×100 relay, :42.01.

Morse 4×1600 relay, 3:21.92.

A virtually immobile Brent Noon, nursing a tender hamstring, led qualifiers with a 61-1/2 shot put and 168-foot discus throw.

5/26/90

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @POWAY

Morse outscored Mt. Carmel, 56-38, for the team title.
Brent Noon set a meet shot put record of 74-10 ½ and University City’s Jerome Price came close to Doyle Steel’s 25-5 ¼ broad jump in 1966, closing with a 25-4 ½ leap.

Two meet records were set.

NAME	EVENT	RECORD	NAME	PREVIOUS	YEAR
Washington, San Diego Southwest	100	:10.53	Ethridge, Crawford	:10.56	1987
Noon, Fallbrook	Shot Put	74-10 ½	Noon	66-7	1989

OTHER SEASON BESTS

—Darnay Scott, Kearny, :21.49 200.

—Sean Cahill, Mira Mesa, :48.49 400.

—Scott Robeson, Mt. Carmel, 1:54.49 800.

—Hector Hernandez, Mar Vista, 4:17.26 1600.

—Tom Bache, University, 9:25.78 3200.

—Chris Jones, Morse, :37.89 300 hurdles.

—Wes Stephens, Orange Glen, 15-0 pole vault.

—Matt Johnson, Castle Park, 46-11 triple jump.

6/1/90

72^ND STATE TRACK TRIALS, @CERRITOS COLLEGE, NORWALK
(*qualified for finals)

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Washington	San Diego Southwest	:10.66	5th*
	Lawrence	Morse	:10.88	12th
200	Hammond	Lincoln	:21.75	8th*
400	Cahill	Mira Mesa	:50.01	16th
	Gregory	Patrick Henry	:50.26	18th
800	Robeson	Mt. Carmel	1:54.59	9th*
	Luna	Poway	1:56.96	19th
	Sanchez	Castle Park	2:01.70	27th
1600	Hernandez	Mar Vista	4:12.95	3rd*
	Walker	San Pasqual	4:14.05	9th*
	Biddle	Mt. Carmel	4:17.15	14th
4×100 Relay	Lincoln		:41.98	7th*
	Morse		:42.38	9th*
	University City		:42.60	13th
4×1600 Relay	Mira Mesa		3:17.87	4th*
	Morse		3:20.83	13th
	Poway		3:22.10	15th
110 Hurdles	Jones	Morse	:14.8	11th
	Bell	Castle Park	:14.87	14th
300 Hurdles	Williams	Escondido	:38.26	3rd*
	Lewis	Mira Mesa	:38.94	12th
	Jones	Morse	:39.97	21st
High Jump	Duffield	Vista	6-4	10th
	Krebs	University City	6-2	18th
Long Jump	Price	University City	24-4 3/4	2nd*
	Balina	Mt. Carmel	23-4 ½	5th*
	Hammond	Lincoln	22-1 3/4	13th
Triple Jump	Johnson	Castle Park	45-1/4	20th
	Lundy	Morse	43-10 ¾	22nd
Shot Put	Noon	Fallbrook	73-6	1st*
	Martz	Orange Glen	54-9 1/2	10th
	Cienega	Escondido	53-5 1/2	13th
Discus	Noon		193-6	2nd*
	Martz		168-7
	Graham	Mira Mesa	154-11
Pole Vault	Stephens	Orange Glen	14-8	9th*
	Roth	Mt. Carmel	14-0
	Aubuchon	Fallbrook	13-8

6/2/90

72^ND STATE FINALS, AT CERRITOS COLLEGE, NORWALK

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Washington	San Diego Southwest	:10.70	3rd
200	Hammond	Lincoln	:21.84	8th
800	Robeson	Mt. Carmel	1:53.89	6th
1600	Hernandez	Mar Vista	4:14.42	5th
	Walker	San Pasqual	4:18.78	7th
3200	Lozano	Helix	9:32.17	19th
	Hernandez		9:35.81	21st
	Bache	University	9:46.93	23rd
110 Hurdles	Jones	Morse	:14.90	7th
300 Hurdles	Williams	Escondido	:38.29	6th
4×100 Relay	Lincoln		:42.34	7th
	Morse		:42.38	8th
4×400 Relay	Mira Mesa		3:17.66	7th
Long Jump	Price	University City	25-3 ¼	1st
	Balina	Mt. Carmel	23-1w	5th
Shot Put	Noon	Fallbrook	74-4 ¾	1st
Discus	Noon		200-8	2nd
Pole Vault	Stephens	Orange Glen	15-2	5th

The CIF’s scoring system had evolved since the first meet in 1915. Originally a finish in the top four was awarded points and a medal.

By 1980, scoring had evolved to include recognition and points as far down as sixth place.

YEARS	FIRST	SECOND	THIRD	FOURTH	FIFTH	SIXTH
1915-28	5	3	2	1	—	—
1929-30	5	3	2	1	½	—
1931-65	5	4	3	2	1	—
1966-79	6	4	3	2	1	—
1980—	10	8	6	4	2	1

6/16/90

The 31^st Golden West Invitational in Sacramento attracted some of the nation’s premier athletes.

Brent Noon of Fallbrook won the shot put with a throw of 72 feet.  Jim Flanigan of  Brussels, Wisconsin, was second at 66-5.

University City’s Jerome Price was fourth in the long jump at 24-5 ½, behind the winning 25-5 ½ by Michael Hightower of Paris, Texas.

(Avocado and Eastern League championship meet results were not found).