Arnie Robinson was coming to the end of four brilliant seasons at Morse.

Robinson high jumped 6-7, long jumped 24 feet, and won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8 in his last competition (see below) at the school on Skyline Drive in Encanto that Robinson watched open in September, 1962.

The nephew of 1940s San Diego High stars Ermer and Ivan Robinson went on to Mesa College, San Diego State, and, later, to international acclaim.

Arnie won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump at the 1976 Olympics after earning a bronze in 1972.

Robinson, who eventually returned to teach and coach the Mesa track team, had career bests of 6-10 in the high jump, 27-4 ¼ in the long jump, and 51 feet in the triple jump.

2/28/66

Madison’s Dennis Smith cut almost 10 seconds off his 1965 school record when he ran 10:04.7 in the two-mile, but Granite Hills, defending San Diego Section team champion, won the season-opening meet at Madison, 82-31.

3/2/66

San Diego defeated Point Loma, 67-46, as Doyle Steele doubled in the high jump (5-10) and long jump (22-7) and Orvin Romo logged 1:58.7 in the 880.

Steele could have gone much higher, said coach Martin Pedigo, but the event was halted after the takeoff area became slippery and unsafe because of rain.

3/4/66

Doyle Steel tied Bob Logan’s 1938 school high jump record of 6 feet, 5 ½ inches.  Steele also won the long jump at 23-1 and the triple jump at 43-3, but San Diego dropped a 72-59 decision to Grossmont.

—Crawford routed Kearny, 90 ½-17 ½, and future decathlete Don Bajema set a school record of 6-1 ½ in the high jump and won the long jump at 21-9.

3/11/66

Lincoln’s Johnny Mack Ellis demonstrated strength and speed when he pole vaulted 11-6 and won the sprints in :09.8 and :21.5 and anchored a 1:30 relay victory in Lincoln’s 85-28 win at Kearny.

Ted Scales ran :14.3 in the 120 highs and David Edwards took the 180 lows in :19.3.

Marks were complemented by the breezes that blow off the Kearny Mesa.

—Arnie Robinson long jumped 23-10 ½ in Morse’s triangular meet with Chula Vista and Mission Bay, which the Tigers won with 79 points to the Spartans’ 44 and the Bucs’ 17.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson, idled by the flu last week, won the 440 (:50.7) and mile (4:24.2).

3/17/66

Lincoln’s dual-meet power, enhanced by the arrival of Johnny Mack Ellis from Tyler, Texas, rolled on usually respectable Crawford, 84-29.

Ellis took advantage of the Crawford track, elevated, on a mesa and in line with westerly breezes, beat the Colts’ Danny Patton (:09.9) with a :09.7 100, took the 220 on the curve in :22.1, anchored a 1:30.1 relay victory, and pole vaulted 12 feet for a four-win, golden spike afternoon.

—El Cajon Valley’s Armando Valencia took the state lead with a 1:54.9 880 and broke Jack Hudson’s 1958 school record of 1:55.9 in the Braves’ 71-60 loss to Granite Hills and Hilltop’s Terry Rogers, who would win the 880 in the state meet in June, ran 1:55.5 as the Lancers defeated Escondido, 71-60.

3/23/66

Morse would not compete three days later in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays at Sweetwater, but the Tigers showed they would have been contenders for the team championship by defeating Helix and San Diego in a triangular meet that featured events of the relays.

The Tigers scored 79 points to Helix’ 45, and San Diego’s 32.

Tigers high jumpers Larry Greenwood (6-7 1/2), Paul Lee  (6-2), and Arnie Robinson (6-0) cleared an aggregate, average height of 6-3 ½.

3/26/66

Tim Danielson took the national lead with a time of 4:11.2 in the mile in the 12th annual National City JC Relays, with Terry Rogers of Hilltop, the leader until final 110 yards, second in 4:12.2.

Problem.

The track was yards short of the typical 440-yard oval, but no matter to Danielson.  He had several times better later in the season on other tracks.

3/30/66

St. Augustine’s Tom Eklund tossed his hat into the 880-yard ring with a 1:54.8, topping by 1/10 second that which El Cajon Valley’s Armando Valencia negotiated earlier.

Eklund’s mark did little to help the Saints, 85-18 losers to San Diego.

“I’m using starting blocks, so it will get me out there quicker,” said Eklund of his :54 first quarter. “Then it will let the second quarter take care of itself.”

Eklund was third in 1:55.2 in the San Diego Section championships in 1965 and his best this season before today was 1:56.4.

4/1/66

Tim Danielson took a shot at the 880 and ran 1:53.2, fourth fastest in area history, and Chula Vista won at Escondido, 87-26.

–The wind blew and the marks flew at Morse, where the Tigers’ Donald Anders beat Crawford’s Danny Patton in a :09.8 100 and Patton beat Anders, :21.3 to :21.4, in the straight 220.

–Rick Rubin set a Helix record of 4:20.6, but Armando Valencia won the mile in 4:16.1, although Valencia and his El Cajon Valley teammates were on the short end of the 91-40 score.

4/6/66

–Ira Raibon set an Oceanside record of 6-2 3/4 in the high jump.  Terry Rogers broke Hilltop’s two-mile mark with a 9:41.8 and Brent Rowlett ran 9:50.8 for an Oceanside record. Fred Logel lowered the Morse mile to 4:38.6 and teammate John Roberts hurled the shot 51-2 ½ for another school record.

4/9/66

Hilltop won the Dean C.E. Peterson trophy for the outstanding performance and Lincoln hurdler Ted Scales for the outstanding individual performance in the seventh San Diego (formerly Easter) Relays in Balboa Stadium.

The Lancers’ distance medley team of Bruce Pradels (440), Bernie Calderon (880), Jimmy Gelsomini (1,320), and miler Terry Rogers, who anchored in 4:16.1, completed the distance in a County-record 10:23.4.

Scales came from behind on the last hurdle to nip teammate David Edwards in the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.1, best ever in the area, and Monte Vista’s 4-man, 4-mile relay team of  Dave Matheny, Rod Stephens, Mark Clark, and Don Olsen clocked 18:06.08, another all-time best.

4/15/66

Arnie Robinson won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8, high jumped 6 feet, 7 inches, and long jumped 24 feet in Morse’s 71-42 win over Hoover, the same school that had beaten the first-year Tigers, 103-1, in 1963.

Of one of the most impressive three-event performances in area dual-meet history, Robinson said, “It was my last meet at home and I wanted to do good.”

“Arnie had the spirit today,” remarked teammate Harold Greenwood after Robinson reached 24 feet on his first try.  Robinson and Greenwood tied in the high jump but Arnie had fewer misses.

Another Robinson teammate, Donald Anders, won the 100 in :09.9 and 220 in a school-record :21.5.

–Johnny Mack Ellis ran :09.8 and :22.2 in the 100 and 220 and pole vaulted 12-6 as Lincoln erased any drama in the usually heated rivalry with San Diego, 74 ½-38 ½.

The Hornets even topped the Cavemen with essentially a backup relay team of Louis King, James Gunn, Albert Quinn, and Leroy Davis, which ran 1:30.

–Terry Rogers of Hilltop turned in a 1:54.4 880 and barely minutes later tried to double in the 440, finishing last.   Sweetwater won the 880 relay in 1:33.4 and the meet, 59-54.

–Oceanside’s Ira Raibon high jumped 6-2 and long jumped 23-2 and Bill Reilly put the shot 55 feet in Oceanside’s 74-52 win over Orange Glen.

4/22/66

George Brown was almost 10 feet better than his father.

The senior Brown, an El Cajon doctor and former all-America football player at Navy, set a Hoover High record of 51 feet, 11 inches, in the shot put in 1941.

The younger George III, a muscular 220 pounds, heaved the 12-pound ball 60-10 ½, seventh best in County history, and defending champion Granite Hills stayed alive in the Grossmont dual-meet race with Grossmont and Helix.

The Eagles, who lost to Grossmont, 67-64, last week, defeated favored Helix, 70 ½-60 ½.  With the meet in the balance, Granite Hills’ Donald Evans anchored a 1:30.2 victory in the 880 relay after topping the Highlanders’ Ralph Lavage in :09.9 and :22.2 in the sprints.

Granite’s Bruce Rickett’s (:49.5) edged Helix’ Ron Koenig (:49.8) in the fastest 440 in the area this season.

–Armando Valencia’s 9:15.7 two-mile was the fastest this year in California and left Valencia and his coach Joe Brooks wondering.

“If Danielson and Rogers run the mile and 880, we might go in the two-mile,” said Brooks. “It would really give our area a real shot at three first places in the state meet.”

–Point Loma ended Mission Bay’s two-year rule in the Western League, 75-38, and will meet Kearny for the title next week.

Grossmont (5-0) must get past Helix (4-1) for an outright Grossmont title next week.

Lincoln, 91-14 over St. Augustine, goes for the Eastern crown against Morse, 61-52 over San Diego, next week.

Chula Vista, 81-32 over Hilltop, and Sweetwater, 95-17 over Escondido, will settle matters in the Metropolitan League.

4/29/66

Grossmont nipped Helix, 67-64;  Lincoln rolled Morse, 80-33; Chula Vista edged Sweetwater, 59-54, and Point Loma routed Kearny, 74 ½-38 ½, to either claim league titles outright or face only virtual formalities in the final week of dual meets next week.

–Grossmont secured its win over Helix with a 1:30.8 victory in the relay.  Crawford did the same in a 58-54 thriller with San Diego as Danny Patton anchored a 1:29.8 win after taking the 220 in :21.8 on the Balboa Stadium curve.  The Colts’ Jim (Big Game) Hunter ran :14.8 in the 120-yard highs.

–Terry Rogers threw down on the state’s 880-yard run aspirants with his 1:53.2, which tied Tim Danielson’s area season best.

–Rick Geer set a Monte Vista record with a 162-8 discus throw and doubled with a 50-11 shot put.  Granite Hills’ George Brown heaved the shot 59-4 and teammate Mike Bimer set a school record with a discus throw of 160 feet.

–Tom Danielson jogged a :50.4 440, teammate Johnston ran a 1:59.7 880, Jim Baldwin hurled the shot 54-6 1/4, and Don French covered the 120 high hurdles in :14.7, all of which helped Chula Vista to a 61-51 win over Sweetwater,  which embraced a school-record 22-11 1/4 long jump by Jim Rice, minimally longer than Burte Jackson’s 22-10 1/2 in 1965.

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Tim Danielson, Terry Rogers, and Doyle Steel were state champions and would have been favored in their events if there were a prep national championship meet.

Chula Vista’s Danielson, the second to better four minutes in the mile, was undefeated  on the prep level the last two years  and he competed nationally and internationally well into the summer.

Following a two-mile victory on June 18 in Sacramento’s Golden West Invitational, Danielson also ran the mile  in the National AAU meet in New York, running nonwinning 4:07.4 in the trials on June 25 and 4:03.3 in the finals on June 26.

Danielson’s last significant event was the Police Games in Toronto, Canada, where he ran 4:03.9, in late July.

Steel, who set a national record in the long jump, and Rogers, the national No. 1 runner in the 880, made for a tremendous San Diego Section season.

5/6/66

Tim Danielson ran the two-mile in 9:04.7, fastest ever in the county and No. 6 in the country this season, as Chula Vista wrapped the Metropolitan League dual meet championship, 87-26, over visiting Mar Vista.

Grossmont claimed the Grossmont League dual-meet title with a 90-41 win over El Cajon Valley, whose Armando Valencia posted a 4:12.9 mile.

Danielson will drop the two-mile for the mile and Valencia will leave the mile for the two-mile in league meets.

Granite Hills’ George Brown put the shot 60 feet, 5 ½ inches;

Chula Vista’s Don French ran :14.4 in the 120-yard high hurdles;

Sweetwater’s Bill Yahnke logged a :09.9 100 and :21.5 220 on the notoriously breezy Castle Park straightaway.

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Otis Martin shaved more than 25 seconds off his two-mile time with a 9:16.1 and Lincoln teammate David Edwards cleared the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.3.

Edwards equaled the league record set by Jimmy Fox in 1964 and Martin smashed his 9:41.3 in the 1965 meet.

The Hornets led with 23 qualifiers, followed by San Diego (18), Hoover (16), Morse (15), Crawford (13), and St. Augustine (8).

Class B field event finals saw Hoover’s Lance Ruff set a record of 50-9 ½ in the shotput, more than 6 feet further than the 44-5 ¾ by Jerry Darr of St. Augustine in 1963.

Mike Johnson of Lincoln pole vaulted 12-6, a foot higher than the 11-6 in 1963, ’64, and ’65 by representatives of three different schools.

Doug Jones of Lincoln high jumped 6-2 ¾, tying  Arnie Robinson’s 1964 Class B record.

WESTERN, @CLAIREMONT

Point Loma’s Bob Chavez set a 220 record of :21.7, erasing the :21.8 by Clairemont’s John Procsal in 1963.

The 4:26.3 mile by Barry Richardson of Kearny was better than the 4:27.5 by La Jolla’s Jeff Dragila in 1965.

Frank Heitman of Clairemont ran 1:58.9 in the 880, gutsy and notable because Heitman’s dislocated shoulder was harnessed after an injury sustained playing volleyball.

5/9/66

GROSSMONT, @GROSSMONT COLLEGE

Dan Ungricht of Monte Vista tied the 880 record of 1:56.6 by El Capitan’s Tad Hendrickson in 1964.

That Ungricht was wearing shoes did not fit the category of breaking news.

Footwear was not new to the Spring Valley community, where Ungricht lived, but was seldom the choice of the Monarchs’ runner or his distance-running teammates.

“In cross country we always go barefooted,” said Ungricht.  “Your feet feel lighter.”

Ungricht said he usually dumped his shoes for the longer races.

The prospect of going barefoot didn’t appeal in shorter events.

Granite Hills’ Donald Evans, appropriately shod, tied a record he shared with two others when he ran :09.9 in the 100.

METROPOLITAN, @MAR VISTA

The :14.6 in the 120 high hurdles by Chula Vista’s Don French broke the record of :14.7 by El Cajon Valley’s Dave Landis in 1960.

5/15/64

FINALS

METROPOLITAN

Tim Danielson, in a rare attempt at the 440, was first in :50.2 and added a 4:13.3 mile as Chula Vista ran away with the team championship with 63 points to runner-up Sweetwater’s 29.

The evening’s top mark was the U.S.-leading 1:51.8 by Hilltop’s Terry Rogers in the 880.

“No one told me my time at the 660 mark,” Rogers told Bill Weurding of the Evening Tribune, “so I was running mentally, according to the way I felt.  I didn’t believe it was that fast.  I still can’t believe it.”

GROSSMONT

Granite Hills outscored Helix, 66-58, fired by a triple win from sprinter Donald Evans, who won the 100 in :10, 220 in :23.2, and anchored a 1:30.3 victory in the 880 relay.

Evans’ teammate, George Brown, set a record with a 60-7 1/2 shot put.

Mount Miguel’s Pat Ela doubled with a 13-foot, 7-inch pole vault and a record 23-3 long jump.

Dan Ungricht of Monte Vista ran the 880 in 1:56.5, knocking 1/10 off the record he tied in the trials.

Rick Olander, the leading pole vaulter at 14-7, was byed into the CIF trials because of an injury.

AVOCADO

Vista’s Rick Fox set the pace with a 4:20.8 mile but Oceanside won the team championship with 49 points to the arch-rival Panthers’ 18.

PALOMAR

Mike Turnipseed, a Class B entry for Carlsbad, won the 100 in :09.8 and 220 in :21.7.

EASTERN

Several jumpers of beyond 23 feet would be cut to three for the San Diego Section trials.

Lewis King of Lincoln won at 24 feet, 2 ¾ inches.  Henry Woods of San Diego was second at 23-4 ¾ and Morse’s Arnie Robinson, who had a best of 24 feet, was third at 23-3.

Missing was San Diego’s Doyle Steel, who earlier had gone 23-9 ¾ but was sidelined with an ankle injury.

It was revealed that Eastern League coaches had voted prior to the meet to bye Steel into the CIF trials.  Robinson, who would win the 1976 Olympics gold medal, was out.

CIF commissioner Don Clarkson dismissed complaints, saying they were “league matters”.

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS

5/22/66

About 450 competitors descended upon Balboa Stadium, where at the end of the day four records had been set, one tied, and the number of survivors for the finals was winnowed down to approximately 265 in 33 varsity, Class B and C events.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson continued undefeated and unchallenged, setting a section mile record of 4:08.2, closing in on his best of 4:08 in the 1965 state meet and better than Danielson’s 4:08.7 in the ‘65 San Diego Section trials.

Tall Point Loma junior Bob Chavez, bothered off and on since last season by a muscle pull, barged into the sprint conversation with a record :21.5 on the stadium’s curved 220, topping Byron Olander’s :21.6 in 1964.

Chavez, 10 yards behind on the anchor exchange, also caught and passed Granite Hills’ Donald Evans and brought the Pointers home in a Lincoln-and-San Diego-like 1:28.5 in the 880 relay.

SIBLINGS

Morse’s Harold Greenwood, younger brother of Hoover’s Norris and Lincoln’s Larry, tied the 1964 high jump mark of 6-8 by Hoover’s Eddy Hanks.

Carlsbad’s Mike Turnipseed ran the B 100 in :09.9, knocking down the :10 flat Turnipseed had run a year before.

Lincoln’s Doug Jones high jumped 6 feet, 5 inches, to improve on the B record of 6-2 3/4 by Arnie Robinson in 1964 and Jones the previous week.

Johnny Mack Ellis and Ted Scales of Lincoln were individual double winners.

Ellis ran :09.7 and :21.8 in the 100 and 220.  Scales tied with teammate David Edwards in :15.1 in the 120 high hurdles and won a 180 lows heat in :20.1.

Terry Rogers of Hilltop won one 880 heat in 1:52.3 and Tom Eklund of St. Augustine took the other in 1:53.3.

Lincoln led all varsity qualifiers with 17, Oceanside had 11 (to Lincoln’s 10) in the Bees, and Grossmont led the way with 9 (to Lincoln’s 8) in the Cees.

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

5/29/66

Tim Danielson and Terry Rogers were forced to give up the limelight to the glare that was coming from the long jump pit.

Lincoln’s Lewis King drew a roar from the crowd of about 4,000 when he soared 24-5 1/4 early in the competition.

Doyle Steel, an injured nonparticipant in the Eastern League meet two weeks before and then quietly byed into the trials, suddenly became airborne and landed at a national-record 25 feet, 5 ½ inches, 1/4 inch beyond what a jumper from Pacific Grove, California, did in 1964.

Steel, whose jump could have been declared a foul, because he walked back through the pit before exiting, had gone a foot and a half further than his previous best of 23-11 ½.

Lincoln, paced  by Johnny Mack Ellis’ 0:9.8 100, :21.4 220, and anchor of the winning 880 relay team that tied the record of 1:27.2,  scored 65 points to 15 each by runners-up Chula Vista and Granite Hills.

RECORDS

TWO-MILE RUN

New: 9:10.8, Armando Valencia, El Cajon Valley.  Old: 9:17.8, Otis Martin, Lincoln, 1965.

120-YARD HIGH HURDLES

New: :14.2, David Edwards, Lincoln.  Old:  :14.4, Mike Swaim, Oceanside, 1963; Harold Burt, Morse, 1965.

HIGH JUMP

New:  6-8 ¼, Harold Greenwood, Morse.  Old:  6-8, Eddy Hanks, Hoover, 1964.

LONG JUMP

New:  25-5 ¼, Doyle Steel, San Diego.  Old: 24-5 1/4, Lewis King, Lincoln, 1966.

220

New:  :21.4, Johnny Mack Ellis, Lincoln.  Old: :21.5, Bob Chavez, Point Loma, 1966.

MILE

New: 4:06.2, Tim Danielson, Chula Vista.  Old:  4:08.2, Danielson, 1966.

880 RELAY

Tie:  1:27.2,  Lincoln (Lewis King, Leroy Davis, David Edwards, Johnny Mack Ellis).  Lincoln, 1962; San Diego, 1963.

STATE TRIALS, @BERKELEY

6/5/66

Lincoln had eight athletes in eight events and a total of 11 entries.

The Hornets were given a chance to win the team championship, although Los Angeles Dorsey and Pasadena Muir were favored, having come through the larger, more competitive L.A. City and Southern sections.

San Diego Section entries met with success in the Friday afternoon portion of the meet at 22,000-seat Edwards Stadium on the University of California campus.

Terry Rogers, Tim Danielson and Doyle Steele won their preliminary tests, as did Lincoln’s Johnny Mack Ellis, first in one of the 100-yard dashes.

Lincoln pole vaulter Mike Johnson was among qualifiers at 13-3 ½ in the pole vault.

The top three finishers in each of three heats and usually 11 or 12 in field events moved on to the finals. Parenthesis indicate place in respective heats, with San Diego Section qualifiers in italics.

NAME, SCHOOL	EVENT	TIME	LEADER
Ellis, Lincoln	100	:09.9 (1)	:09.8, Hill, Stockton Edison; Masters, El Cerrito; Underwood, L.A. Dorsey.
Belle, Lincoln		:10.0 (4)
Chavez, Point Loma	220	:20.9w (3)	Underwood, L.A. Dorsey. :20.5.
Ellis		:21.2 (2)
Ricketts, Granite Hills	440	:50.5 (9)	:47.5, Collett, Gardena.
Quinn, Lincoln		:50.3 (6)
Rogers, Hilltop	880	1:52.7 (1)
Eklund, St. Augustine		1:53.6 (3T)
Danielson, Chula Vista	Mile	4:18.7 (1)	Mattingly, L.A. Loyola, 4:15.9
Fox, Vista		4:21.1 (4)
Edwards, Lincoln	120HH	:14.2 (2)	Parish, L.A. Dorsey, :13.9.
Scales, Lincoln		:14.5 (4)
King, Lincoln	180LH	:20.2 (7)	Farmer, La Puente, :18.6.
Edwards		:19.0 (4)
Robinson, Morse	High Jump	6-4 (12T)	11 at 6-6.
Greenwood, Morse		6-4 (12T)
Steel, San Diego	Long Jump	24-3 ¾ (1)
King		22-11 ½ (11)
Brown, Granite Hills	Shot Put	58-6 ½ (9)	64-¼, Hubbell, Long Beach Poly
Rielly, Oceanside		49-8 (24)
Johnson, Lincoln	Pole Vault	13-3 ½ (1T)
Griffiths, Mar Vista		13-0 (17T)
Gold, Grossmont	Discus	156-8 /1/2 (14)	183-4 /12, Peters, Piedmont
Geer, Monte Vista		Fouled 4 throws
Point Loma	880 Relay	1:29.1 (3)	1:27.3, Garden Grove Bolsa Grande
Lincoln		1:28.7 (3)	1:27.5, L.,A. Manual Arts

6/6/66

FINALS

Tim Danielson, Doyle Steel, and Terry Rogers helped produce a San Diego Section record three gold medals, but Lincoln finished far down the pack with 3 points, two for Johnny Mack Ellis’ fourth place in the 100 and one for Otis Martin’s fifth in the two-mile run.

Rogers began the day holding off a late charge by Karl Henry of Rialto Eisenhower to win the 880 in 1:51.5, same time as the runner-up.

Steel had to rally on his last jump, reaching 25 feet, 3 1/4, to finally beat back the challenge of L.A. Loyola’s Henry Harris, who was leading in the final flight of jumpers at 24 -7 ¼.

Danielson was taking on superstar status.  He won the mile by at least 35 yards in a state meet record of 4:07.    Second place finisher Wally Mattingly of L.A. Loyola clocked 4:13.4.

San Diego Section scorers in italics.

NAME	SCHOOL	EVENT	TIME	WINNER
Johnny Mack Ellis	Lincoln	100	:09.7 (4)	:09.6, Underwood, L.A. Dorsey
Ellis		220	:22.0 (6)
Bob Chavez	Point Loma		:22.1 (6)
Terry Rogers,	Hilltop	880	1:51.5 (1)
Tom Eklund	St. Augustine		1:57.4 (10)
Tim Danielson	Chula Vista	Mile	4:07 (1)
Otis Martin	Lincoln	Two-Mile	9:10.1 (5)	9:01.6, Gamez, Berkeley
Armando Valencia	El Cajon Valley		Did not finish
David Edwards	Lincoln	120HH	:14.7 (8)	:13.9, Parish, L.A. Dorsey
Doyle Steel	San Diego	Long Jump	25-3 ¼ (1)
Lewis King	Lincoln		23-2 (6)
George Brown	Granite Hills	Shot Put	58-7 ¼ (8)	66-11, Hubbell, Long Beach Poly
Mike Johnson	Lincoln	Pole Vault	13-0 (14T)	15-3/4, Meyers, Sacramento Foothill
	Point Loma	880 Relay	1:33.4 (7)	1:26.4, Pasadena Muir
	Lincoln		Did not finish.

6/11/66

Danielson, Rogers, and Steel each competed in the San Diego Invitational, which included former Olympians and an international field.

Danielson continued to rock, finishing fourth in the mile in 3:59.4 and becoming the second high school runner after Jim Ryun in 1964 to break four minutes.

Terry Rogers was last in a six-man 880 field but his 1:50.4 was No. 6 all-time in the U.S.

Doyle Steel jumped 24-5 ½, behind Ralph Boston’s winning 25-3 and Gayle Hopkins 24-11, but Steele impressed track and field expert Dick Bank of Los Angeles.

“He looks like the guy who could take (world record holder) Boston’s place,” said Bank.

“This is the thing that impresses me,” Bank said of Steel, “the conditions weren’t good but he was jumping right with those guys.”

6/18/66

Danielson set a record of 8:55.4 in the two-mile at the Golden West Invitational for athletes from California and the U.S. in Sacramento.

Steele won the long jump at 25-5 and Rogers was the winner in the 880 at 1:51.8.crol

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Thirty-three boys, counting one for relays, posted 43 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE
100	Tucker, Lincoln	:10.51w, (17T), :10.54 (21T)	:10.14, Pleasant, Gardena Serra
	Priest, Maranatha	:10.56 (23T)
200	Brock, Cathedral	:21.40 (20)	:20.40, Pleasant
	Tucker, Lincoln	:21.47w (22), :21.74
400	Parker, Helix	:46.82 (3)	:46.75, Goode, Santa Clarita West Ranch
	Brotschi, Otay Ranch	:48.12 (12T)
800	Harder, San Marcos	1:51.90 (9)	1:48.84, C. Sahlman, Newbury Park
	Thomas, Torrey Pines	1:52.34 (10)
	Gilmore, Sage Creek	1:52.93 (16)
	Taylor, San Marcos	1:53.87 (20)
1600	Taylor	4:11.87 (17)	3:59.32, Young, Newbury Park
3200	Gilmore	8:53.23 (7)
	Bowlds, Patrick Henry	9:00.32 (20)
	Pala, Francis Parker	9:01.43 (24)
110 Hurdles	Thomas, Mission Hills	:14.83	:13.35, Marshall, Stockton St. Mary’s
300 Hurdles	Atilano, Cathedral	:38.78, (16T)	:36.73, Marshall
	Nelson, Patrick Henry	:38.93 (19)
	Thomas	:39.42 (25)
4×100 Relay	Mission Hills	:41.70 (15)	:40.63, Fresno Central
	Helix	:41.75 (17)
4×400 Relay	Helix	3:15.79 (5)	3:13.87, L.A. Cathedral
	San Marcos	3:19.97 (12)
High Jump	Gillis, Steele Canyon	6-9 (1T)	6-9, Johnson, San Bernardino Cajon
	Cheeks, Mission Bay	6-8 (3T)
	Cardoza, Eastlake	6-8 (3T)
	Meisterlin, Fallbrook	6-7 (10)
Long Jump	Tucker, Lincoln	23-11 (5)	24-9 ½, Stevenson, Temecula Great Oak
	Matovu, Helix	23-3 1/2w (16), 23-2 1/2
	Cheeks	23-2 ½ (17T)
	Saunders, Cathedral	23-2 ½ (17T)
Triple Jump	Detling, Poway	47-9 (4)	48-6, Stevenson
	Buu, Eastlake	47-6 (6)
	Shotomide, St. Augustine	46-10 ¼ (11)
	Cheeks	46-3 (17)
	Gillis	45-10 (22)
	Cardoza	45-9 (24)
Shot Put	Miller, El Camino	59-11 ¾ (7)	66-10, Moran, Murietta Mesa
	Lopez, El Centro Southwest	59-11 (8)
	Martinez, Vista	58-3 ¼ (10)
	Holmes, Del Norte	56-5 (14)
Pole Vault	Rydbeck, Rancho Bernardo	14-11 (23T)	16-9, O’Brien, Eastvale Roosevelt
	Emerson, Sage Creek	14-11 (23T)
	Richards, Poway	14-11 (23T)
Discus	Lopez	175-4 (15)	207-4, Moran

Forty-five girls, counting one for relays, posted 54 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.

EVENT	NAME/SCHOOL	MARK	STATE
100	Shaheed, Madison	:11.66 (4)	:11.45, Redmond, Carson
	McCormick, Scripps Ranch	:11.71w (3), :11.76 (11)
	Hatton, Sage Creek	:11.91w (21T), :12.18
200	Bean, Poway	:24.25 (8)	:23.82, :23.65w, Currie, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
	Shaheed	:24.45 (15)
400	Bean	:55.09 (8)	:53.19, Cenci, Clovis North
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	:56.21(18)
	Smith, La Jolla	:56.33 (22)
	Herbst, Carlsbad	:56.39 (25)
800	Buswell, Poway	2:09.54 (7)	2:05.66, Engelhardt, Ventura
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	2:11.24 (13)
	Riggins, Del Norte	2:11.60 (18)
	Farmer, Rancho Bernardo	2:11.94 (19)
	Arciaga, Westview	2:11.98 (21)
1600	Riggins	4:46.97 (8)
	Rogers, Poway	4:48.75 (11)	4:33.29, Engelhardt
3200	Rogers	10:17.91 (9)	9:50.9, Engelhardt
	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	10:25.46 (15)
100 Hurdles	McCormick	:13.46w (1), :13.61
	James, San Diego	:13.67 (2)
	Coleman, Cathedral	:14.05 (7)	:14.00, Harris, Stockton Lincoln; Davis, Upland
	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	:14.95 (25)
300 Hurdles	Coleman	:42.19 (1)	:42.37, Ruelas, Arroyo Grande
	K. Janik, Torrey Pines	:42.38 (3)
	James	:42.71 (5)
	McCormick	:43.31 (8)
	D. Janik, Torrey Pines	:43.38 (10)
	Medley, Del Norte	:44.37 (15)
4×100	Cathedral	:48.16 (25)	:45.82, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
4×400 Relay	Poway	3:49.93 6)	3:43.87, Long Beach Wilson
	Del Norte	3:53.12 (10)
	Carlsbad	3:54.87 (12)
	Torrey Pines	3:54.94 (13)
High Jump	Tarczy, Scripps Ranch	5-7 (9T)	5-10, Elie, Rocklin Whitney
	Moore-Bastide, Eastlake	5-7 (9T)
	Roberts, Westview	5-5 (19)
Long Jump	Hatton Sage Creek	19-1 1/4w (13), 18-8 1/4	20-8 1/2w, 19-11 ¾, Vanek, Clovis
Triple Jump	Pingley, El Camino	38-4 ¾ (17)	41-3, Hope, Riverside King
	Miles, Point Loma	38-2 ¼ (20)
Pole Vault	Evans, Scripps Ranch	14-0 (T1)	14-0, Muhammad, Dublin
	Leigh, Del Norte	13-7 (4)
	Thomson, Poway	13-3 (5)
	Wagner, Fallbrook	13-0 (9T)
	Hansen, San Dieguito	12-9 (11T)
	Quiroz, Rancho Bernardo
	Downing, La Costa Canyon
	O’Connor, Rancho Bernardo	12-3 (18)
	Hilliard, Poway	12-2 (19T)
	de Jong, Maranatha	12-0 (23T)
Shot Put	Clarke, Cathedral	47-5 (1)	45-4 ½. Gordon, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
Discus	Clarke	147-9 (4)	Fields, Caruthers, 162-7
	Seaboldt, Mt. Carmel	133-8 (13)
	Loy, Del Norte	131-6 (20)
	Mulic, Eastlake	129-3 (23)

Adren Parker drove Helix to a fifth place finish in the 4×400 relay as the Highlanders ran 3:15.79,  11th all-time in San Diego.  An added plus was Helix’s breaking the school record of 3:16.23, set in 2003.

Parker, a junior, also put 2023 rivals on notice with a fourth-place, :47.68 performance in the 400 meters that followed his Section all-time best of :46.82 in Friday’s state meet trials.

Parker ranked third in the 400 in the state and he bettered 48 seconds six times.

Helix finished 12th in team scoring with 10 points, followed by Steele Canyon, 6 1/3, San Marcos, 6, El Centro Southwest, 5, Francis Parker, 4, Vista, 3, El Camino and Otay Ranch, 2 each, and Mission Hills, 1.

Fresno Central’s 41 points won the team title, the first for a Central Section squad since Bakersfield in 1992.  The last San Diego Section team to win was El Camino in 1978.

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SAN DIEGO SECTION FINISHERS IN ITALICS

100—Pleasant (Gardena Serra), :10.30.

200—Pleasant (Gardena Serra), :20.56.

400—Walker (Fresno Central), :47.49.  4—Parker (Helix), :47.68. 7. Brotschi (Otay Ranch), :48.57.

800—Delvecchio (Ojai Thacher), 1:50.82. 10. Harder (San Marcos), 1:57.18.  Thomas (Torrey Pines), DQ, lane violation.

1600—Caudillo (Clovis), 4:10.72. 4—Taylor (San Marcos), 4:12.32.

3200—Ayers (Davis), 8:56.93.  5—Pala (Francis Parker), 9:01.57. 11–Bowlds (Patrick Henry), 9:05.50.  23—Gilmore (Sage Creek), 9:28.06.

110 Hurdles—Graves-Blank (Upland), :13.75w.

300 Hurdles—Crawford (Upland), :37.11.

4×100 Relay—Fresno Central, :41.36.  8—Mission Hills, :42.15.

4×1600 Relay—L.A. Cathedral, 3:13.87.  5—Helix, 3:15.79.  8—San Marcos, 3:19.97. 

High Jump—Johnson (San Bernardino Cajon), 6-7. 2T–Gillis (Steele Canyon), 6-5, 5T–Cardoza (Eastlake), 6-5. 

Long Jump—Plumb (Corona del Mar), 24-5 3/4w.  8—Matovu (Helix), 22-6 3/4w.  12—Cheeks (Mission Bay), 21-7 1/2w.

Triple Jump—O’Bannon (Bellflower St. John Bosco), 47-6 ¾. 9—Cardoza (Eastlake), 43-9 ½w.  10—Cheeks (Mission Bay), 43-9 ¼.  11—Buu (Eastlake), 43-8 3/4w.

Shot Put—Moran (Murrieta Mesa), 64-3 ¼.  4—Lopez (El Centro Southwest), 58-5 ½.  6—Martinez (Vista), 58-3 1/2. 7—Miller (El Camino), 57-10 ½.

Discus—See (San Juan Capistrano JSerra), 203-10.  12—Lopez (El Centro Southwest), 149-4).

Pole Vault—O’Brien (Eastvale Roosevelt), 16-5.  12—Richards (Poway). 14-7.

Charlize James and Kapiolani Coleman held up under the grind of carrying the mantel of favorites and winning gold medals in the state meet in Clovis.

Cathedral’s Coleman, the state leader for most of the season, won the 300 hurdles in :42.23. James, chasing Scripps Ranch Aaliyah McCormick all season, took the 100 hurdles in :13.95 with a game finish in which the San Diego High senior avoided disaster late in the race.

James’ ankle made hard contact with the next to last barrier but James maintained  balance and composure and crossed the finish line before crumbling to the track and being helped off for medical attention, after which James withdrew from the 300 hurdles final.

The daughter of former San Diego coach Charles James ran :13.67, her best time, in the Friday trials.  Of her championship effort?  “I was going to be happy with my time no matter what it was when I won,” she said.

Controversy surrounded McCormick in Friday trials when she was disqualified for bumping another runner during her race.  Video, which meet judges refused to review, seemed to clear McCormick of a foul, sources told Steve Brand of The San Diego Union-Tribune.

McCormick’s legal :13.61 was No. 1 in the state.

“It was very sad when I heard they disqualified Aaliyah McCormick–we’ve had some great races,” James told Brand.  “Of course, I wish she were there. It was very emotional.  This was the goal all season.”

A classy champion.

SPIKE MARKS

Future Olympic champion Yolanda Gail Devers of Sweetwater won the 1984 100 hurdles in the Los Angeles Coliseum in :13.41 and took the 100-meter dash in :11.51…the hurdles were 30 inches then but 33 inches now…Cathedral led San Diego entries, sixth in team scoring with 20 points…Poway tied for 11th with 16, followed by Scripps Ranch, 15 1/2, Del Norte, 11, San Diego, 10, Torrey Pines, 8, La Costa Canyon, 4, and Westview, 1…Gardena Serra won the championship with 37…a San Diego squad has not won a team title since girls competition began in 1974….

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SAN DIEGO SECTION FINISHERS IN ITALICS

100—Redmond (L.A Carson), :11.45.  6. McCormick, (Scripps Ranch), :11.80. 

200—Redmond (L.A. Carson), :23.68. 7—Bean (Poway), :24.35.  .

400—Cenci (Clovis North), :53.72.  5—Bean (Poway), :55.64.

800—Browne (Riverside North), 2:08.66.  6—Buswell (Poway), 2:13.75. 8—Arciaga (Westview), 2:15.56. 12—Dixon (San Marcos), 2:15.56.

1600—Engelhardt (Ventura), 4:36.67.  5—Riggins (Del Norte), 4:46.97.

3200—Thomsen (Santa Rosa Montgomery), 10:06.09.  6—Lopizzo (La Costa Canyon), 10:30.93. 21—Salz (Torrey Pines), 1:11.32.

110 Hurdles—James (San Diego), :13.95.  3. —Coleman (Cathedral), :14.14.

300 Hurdles—Coleman (Cathedral), :42.23. 3–K. Janik (Torrey Pines), :42.67.  8—D. Janik (Torrey Pines), :43.85.

4×100 Relay—Gardena Serra, :46.08.

4×400 Relay—Clovis North, 3:45.38.  6—Poway, 3:52.21.  8—Del Norte, 3:56.40. 9—Carlsbad, 3:56.97.

High Jump—Slover (Los Gatos), 5-6.  4T—Tarczy (Scripps Ranch), 5-4.  8T—Moore-Bastide (Eastlake), 5-4.

Long Jump—Vanek (Clovis), 20-8 1/2.  10—Hatton (Sage Creek), 18-5 1/4w.

Triple Jump—Hope (Riverside King), 40-2 3/4w. 9—Miles (Point Loma), 37-3 1/4w. 10—Pingley (El Camino), 36-9 1/4w.

Shot Put—Olukanni (Clovis East), 44-0.  2.  Clarke (Cathedral), 41-2 ½.   10—Kimuli (Mira Costa), 38-11 ¼.

Discus—Fields (Caruthers), 156-3.  8—Loy (Del Norte), 131-6. 9—Seaboldt (Mt. Carmel), 127-11.  11—Clarke (Cathedral), 121-2.

Pole Vault—Muhammad (Dublin), 13-9.  2—Evans (Scripps Ranch), 13-9.  4—Leigh (Del Norte), 13-5.  8—Downing (La Costa Canyon), 12-5.  10—Hansen (San Dieguito), 11-11.  12—Wagner (Fallbrook), 11-11.

Discus—Fontenette (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame), 157-1. 2—Clarke (Cathedral), 146-8.  9—Seaboldt (Mt. Carmel), 128-8.  12—Loy (Del Norte), 124-10.