2019 Week 7: Blazing Christon Starts Run to State Meet

The Countdown to Clovis begins this week as 16 San Diego Section leagues move through trials and finals with an eye on the state championships May 24-25 at Buchanan High in the Fresno suburb, where competition will be as hot as the weather, guaranteed to offer temperatures close to or at 100 degrees.

At the moment there is no one as hot as Madison’s Kenan Christon, whose foot-scorching :20.67 in the 200 meters at the Escondido Invitational shattered his week-old :20.90 section standard, set at the Mt. San Antonio Invitational.

Christon, now fourth in the U.S. in the 200, also moved up to a tie for second in the section 100-meter standings with a career best of :10.42 on the Escondido High track.

The USC-bound senior tied Helix’ Reggie Bush, who ran :10.42 in 2002 and trails San Diego Southwest’s Riley Washington, who ran :10.30 in 1992.

Christon likely will get another shot in Clovis at Caleb Grubb of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who has decisioned Christon once in the 100 and twice in the 200 in meets at Mt. Carmel in March and Arcadia in early April.

Grubb leads California with his :10.40 in the 100 and is second with a :20.93 200.

Christon also moved into first place locally with a 24-foot long jump in a triangular meet with Crawford and host Lincoln.  No report on wind activity in that event but Christon’s races at Escondido were well under the 2.0 m.p.h. limit.

The Madison runner could join very elite company should he go on to a California sprint title. Championships in the 100 and 200 are few and far between in San Diego, just five in the 100 and three in the 200 since the first state meet in 1915 (see table below).

There was a conversion from yards to the internationally accepted meters in 1980. The 220-yard race was slightly longer than 200 meters. One-hundred meters is more than nine yards longer than 100 yards.

Electronically-timed races are first noted in David Russell’s 1977 victories.

EVENT NAME SCHOOL YEAR TIME
100 Jimmy Willson San Diego 1929 :09.8
Elijah Jefferson Crawford 1974 :09.6w
Jefferson 1975 :09.8
David Russell Patrick Henry 1977 :09.61
 100  Meters Riley Washington San Diego Southwest 1992 :10.30
220 Willson 1929 :21.4
Glenn Willis San Diego 1941 :21.7
Russell 1977 :20.97w

Four season bests in each of  girls’ and boys’ competition highlighted last week’s activity.  Leaders through April 26 (marks in italics represent new season or new personal bests; those with parenthesis indicate where San Diego Section competitors stand in the state):

w–Wind-aided.

GIRLS

EVENT NAME MARK STATE MARK
100 Shaheed, Madison :11.87 (10T) Nowling, Calabasas :11.40w
200 Wright, University City :24.44 (12)
200 Shaheed :24.46 (13) Nowling :23.64
Rustkovich, Scripps Ranch :24.51w (16)
400 Wright, University City :55.64 (15) Okonkwo, Murrieta Mesa

 

:54.25
800 Riedman, La Costa Canyon 2:11.37 (3) Tomkinton, Atherton Menlo 2:10.61
Morales, Scripps  Ranch 2:13.87 (16)
1600 Fahy, La Costa Canyon 4:48.34 (1) Lowe, Clovis Buchanan 4:49.14
3200 Fahy, La Costa Canyon 10:15.80 (2) Lowe, Clovis Buchanan 10:12.78
Dorostkar,  Canyon Crest 10:28.14 (8)
Wallace, Sage Creek 10:35.40 (13)
100 Hurdles Redon, San Diego :14.2 (7) Shearer San Jose Silver Creek :13.36
James, San Diego :14.68w (15T)
300 Hurdles Occiano, Mission Hills :44.64 (20) Glenn, Long Beach Wilson :41.21
4×100 Relay Scripps Ranch :46.95 (2) Calabasas :45.95
4×400 Relay Olympian 3:56.23 (21) Eastvale Roosevelt 3:47.17
High Jump Hickey, Coronado 5-10 ½ (1) Harris, Bakersfield Golden Valley 5-10
Long Jump Hickey, Coronado 20-9w (1) Harris, Upland 20-2 1/2
Hardaway, Oceanside 19-0¾ (8)
Scott, Gompers 19-0½ (9T)
Triple Jump Miller, San Pasqual 39-8 ½ (10) Shearer, San Jose Silver Creek 41-3 3/4
Scott, Gompers Prep 39-5 1/2 (11T)
Shot Put Atuatasi, West Hills 45-1 ½ (7) Franklin, Santa Clarita Golden Valley 47-11 1/2

 

Lagoy, Rancho Bernardo 41-11 (16)
Cardona, El Camino 41-0 ½ (20)
Discus Cruz, Mission Hills 139-3 (20) Budwig, Fowler 171-7
Pole Vault Callahan, Rancho Bernardo 13-6 (2T) Funk, Clovis West 13-7
Thomson, Poway 13-3 (4)
Adamiec, Poway 13-0 (7T)
Cervantes, Poway 12-9 (9)

BOYS

EVENT NAME MARK STATE MARK
100 Christon, Madison 10.42 (2) Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame :10.40
Steward, Orange Glen :10.66 (13T)
200 Christon, Madison :20.67 (1) Grubb, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame :20.93
400 Parker, Helix :47.99 (7) Larrier, Elk Grove Monterey Grove :46.49
Lippert, La Costa Canyon :48.54 (14T)    
Salzman, Calvin Christian :48.54 (14T)    
800 Tellez-Velasquez, San Pasqual 1:52.52 (2) Wingo, Valencia 1:52.11
Ali, Crawford 1:54.17 (14)
1600 Niednagel, La Costa Canyon 4:15.58 (14) Hibbard, El Monte Arroyo 4:07.25
J. Stanford, La Costa Canyon 4:16.90 (24)
3200 Velasco, Fallbrook 9:07.27 (8) Young, Newbury Park 8:40.00
Niednagel, La Costa Canyon 9:09.06 (9)
120 High Hurdles Sayles, Steele Canyon :14.69 Marshall, Berkeley St. Mary’s :13.56
300 Intermediate Hurdles Solomon, Grossmont :38.38 (12) Roberson, Upland :36.96
Stewart, Canyon Crest 39.0 (22T)
4×100 Relay Madison :42.23 (19) Long Beach Poly :40.91
4×400 Relay Helix 3:23.04 Placentia Valencia 3:13.73
High Jump Lugo, Canyon Crest 6-6 ½ (12) Allen, Santa Barbara San Marcos 7-0
Brownell, San Dieguito 6-6 (13)
Long Jump Christon, Madison 24-0 (2) Foster, Clovis North 25-1 1/2
Yokley, El Capitan 22-11 (19T)
Triple Jump Mitchell, Point Loma 48-6 (2) Hemphill, Upland 48-8 1/2
Cynkin, Torrey Pines 46-5 ¼ (14)  
Brown, La Jolla 46-0 ½ (19)  
Gibbs, Oceanside 45-5 ¾ (25)  
Shot Put Boamah, Scripps Ranch 54-0 (24) Viveros, Bakersfield Liberty 68-11
Discus Peterson, Rancho Bernardo 160-3 Elbettar, Newport Beach Newport Harbor 197-4
Pole Vault Rice, Rancho Bernardo 16-4 (2) Wright, Lodi 16-8
Brown, La Costa Canyon 16-0 (4T)
Volpe, San Marcos 15-6 (12T)
Jurisoo, Mt. Carmel 15-1 (22T)
Sperry, Rancho Bernardo 15-1 (22T)
Clarke, El Camino 15-0 (25)
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