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Sophomore Jasir Fontenot of Mater Dei won his second consecutive 110 hurdles championship and Chiara Dailey of La Jolla won her first, in a final try, after a second in the 1600 preceded victory in the 3200.  State season leaders Josiah Bowman and Dylan Yarbrough came up short and Ava Parker, 15-year-old ninth grader from ...

At Clovis Buchanan High. Non-qualifiers places noted with —.  Places determined by times in events with more than one heat. *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. GIRLS EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 100 **Miyah Holmes San Marcos :12.02 — **Aniya Scott Steele Canyon :12.21 — **Haley Hannemann Mission Hills :12.22 — 200 ***Ava Parker Helix :23.93 8th ***Livia Allison Steele Canyon :24.57 — **Holmes :24.70 — 400 ***Parker :53.91 5th *Emery Gonzales Torrey Pines :56.44 — Elise Datuin Mater Dei :56.80 — 800 Delaney Hennigan Westview 2:09.07 7th **Kareli Rascon Eastlake 2:09,86 9th *Harper Diaz Santana 2:12.39 — 1600 Chiara Dailey La Jolla 4:46.00 1st Ayanna Hickey The Bishop’s 4:48.41 6th Grace Keefe Cathedral 4:49.67 11th 100 Hurdles Gabrille Thomas Grossmont :13.81 2nd *Evie Allison Steele Canyon :13.92 3rd ***McKenzzi Jones Morse :14.61 — 300 Hurdles *Isabel Garcia Holtville :42.13 3rd *E. Allison :43.35 — **Isabelle Taylor-Dixon Eastlake :44.71 — Garcia Holtville :42.68 7th  4×100 Relay Steele Canyon :46.12 3rd Del Norte :47.59 — San Marcos DNF — 4×400 ...

GIRLS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND DIVISION I WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26. Orange Glen (12-17) 50, @5 Morse (14-12) 42. Holly Tribbey (16 points) and Rebecca Riddle (13) did the damage to favored Morse. Granite Hills (10-16) 34, @1 Rancho Buena Vista (24-3) 74. Torrey Pines (20-8) 60, Point Loma (15-10) 41. 2 Rancho Bernardo (22-6) 76, San Pasqual (8-18) 31. Mt. Carmel (15-12) 77, @Mira Mesa ...

Can the Steele Canyon 4×100 relay team hang with the favorites?  Can Ava Parker hold her own in a possible four races in two days?  Is this the year that Chiara Dailey wins a state championship? Those are among the questions this week as San Diego Section qualifiers head to Buchanan High in Clovis for the ...

Three state leaders will lead a San Diego Section Boys contingent into the 106th state track championships Friday and Saturday at Buchanan High in Clovis: Sage Creek’s Josiah Bowman, the section record holder at 1:49.54 in the 800 and No. 8 this season in the U.S.; pole vaulter Dylan Yarbrough, whose best of 17 feet, 1 ...

Chiara Dailey has won three state cross country championships but never a state track title. The all-time great San Diego Section competitor has the option of trying to win three Section championships at Mt. Carmel this week, but what will the Stanford-bound La Jolla senior do?  She has a deadline Thursday  to determine if she’ll go ...

His wasn’t the best mark of the day, but Oceanside’s Javen Buchanon continued a family tradition, a couple generations removed, in the San Diego Section Division I track championships at Del Norte’s magnificent facility Saturday. Buchanon, the grandson of former NFL and San Diego Chargers star cornerback Willie Buchanon, triple jumped 47 feet, 8 inches, almost ...

Horizon’s Division V powerhouse reached the state championship game but couldn’t keep up or get up as high as Modesto Christian, which  commanded the backboards and denied coach Zach Jones’ team.  El Camino got to the D-II regional championship but lost to state champion Compton Dominguez. San Diego Section teams generally exited early from the ...

San Diego Section athletes in state top 25 are noted in Athletic.net, except any with the — designation.  *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. Bold indicates updated season best. GIRLS EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE CALIFORNIA NAME, SCHOOL SECTION 100 :11.92w, :11.94 Joelle Frazier, Steele Canyon — :11.33w, :11.51 Kirk, Calabasas Southern :12.00 **Miyah Holmes, San Marcos — Ava Parker, Helix :12.04 *Aniyah Scott, Steele Canyon — 12.10 **Haley Hannemann, Mission Hills — 200 :23.89 ***Parker 11th :23.35 **Collins, Fullerton Rosary Southern :24.20 Frazier 19th :24.35 ***Livia Allison, Steele Canyon — :24.45 **Holmes — :24.60w, :25.39 *Isabel Garcia, Holtville — 400 :53.47 ***Parker 3rd :52.80 Adams, L.B. Wilson Southern :56.19 **Sienna ...

Come May, come marks. San Diego Section boys turned in some of the season’s best efforts in league finals last week, with Dylan Yarbrough of San Dieguito pole vaulting 17 feet, 1 inch, to take the state lead and joining Jestian Richardson of Oceanside (49-7 triple jump), Josiah Bowman of Sage Creek (1:49.54) of Sage Creek ...

San Diego Section athletes in state top 25 as noted in Athletic.net, except any with the — designation.  *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. Bold indicates season best achieved last week. EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE CALIFORNIA NAME, SCHOOL SECTION 100 :11.92w, :11.94 Joelle Frazier, Steele Canyon — :11.33w, :11.51 Kirk, Calabasas Southern :12.00 **Miyah Holmes, San Marcos — Ava Parker, Helix :12.04 *Aniyah Scott, Steele Canyon — 12.10 **Haley Hannemann, Mission Hills — 200 :24.05w, :24.31 ***Parker 10th :23.35 **Collins, Fullerton Rosary Southern :24.20 Frazier 15th :24.66 Ella Joo, Del Norte — :24.72 Holmes :24.89w, :25.46 Valentina ...

Dual meets wrap this week, heading into league finals May 8-9, San Diego Section divisional championships May 16, Section finals May 23, and the 106th state meet May 29-30 in Clovis at Buchanan High. Mater Dei’s Jasir Fontenot, state 100 hurdles champion as a ninth grader in 2025, lost for the first time since a race ...

Ava Parker is stepping on her big brothers’ toes while continuing a family tradition at Helix. The ninth grader ran :53.47, the fourth fastest 400 meters in County history last week in the Mt. San Antonio Invitational in Walnut.  Ava was second in the race to the state-leading :53.13 by Clara Adams of Long Beach Wilson. The ...

Del Norte set a San Diego Section record in the four-man, 800-meter relay with a time of 7:44.70 at the 65th Mt. San Antonio Relays in Walnut Last week. The team of Finn Butler, Isaac Bradshaw, Nick Echsner, and Cam Yarbrough bettered the mark of 7:48.39 by a Torrey Pines foursome at Mt. Sac in 2011. The ...

La Jolla’s Chiara Dailey won the Arcadia Invitational mile in 4:41.12 last week, which converted to a 4:39.31 for 1,600 meters and put Dailey at the top of the list in California, along with her state-leading 9:53.8 for 3,200 meters.  Dailey ran 4:37.08 after the state meet and conclusion of her high school season in ...

Josiah Bowman’s 1:49.54 victory in the 800 meters last week at the Arcadia Invitational put the Sage Creek senior in a neighborhood visited only by Bob Hose, a legendary runner from Madison in 1964. Hose, running in the 1964 Pre-Olympic Invitational against college and international competitors, was hand timed in 1:49.2 for 880 yards in a ...

Ron Riedberger, 92, passed recently in Vista, where he served the school district as teacher, coach, and administrator for 37 years, including five seasons as coach of the Panthers’ basketball team, 1960-61 through 1964-65. Riedberger’s 1961-62 squad posted a 14-8 record and defeated Fallbrook, 81-67, at Escondido High in the San Diego Section 2-A championship game. The ...

The performances and the performers keep getting better, the latter fueled by evolution, diet, training, equipment, and facilities, beginning sometimes indoors in December with a long eye toward the state track meet, which will be held again at Clovis Buchanan High in the 106th renewal May 29-30. There have been several big meets through March, but ...

Small, private schools held sway in the San Diego Section this season in what might be described as an overall, mediocre campaign. Victory Christian and Santa Fe Christian, which finished 1-2 in John Maffei’s Union-Tribune poll, were eliminated decisively in the Southern California Regional playoffs, Victory 78-51 by Bellflower St. John  Bosco in the quarterfinals and ...

San Diego Section teams were 0-5 in semifinals of the CIF Southern California Regional playoffs and their seasons came to an abrupt end, following that of the combined more than 200 other Section boys and girls squads which competed this season. Francis Parker girls (23-8), third seeded in Division I, led 2 seed Temecula Rancho Christian ...