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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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.

San Diego High’s Charlize James defines competitor, at her best, and better, since the season moved into May.  James ran the second fastest  100 hurdles in San Diego Section history Friday,  :13.67 in the state track trials.

James, whose time also is No. 2 in California this year and 12th in the United States, will not have an opportunity to meet Scripps Ranch’s Aaliyah McCormick, who has run a wind-aided :13.46 and wind-accepted :13.61, because McCormick was disqualified when she veered into another runner in her heat yesterday.

James’ genes suggested excellence when the senior, headed to San Diego State after graduation, turned out for track as a freshman at San Diego.   Her father, former Cavers football coach Charles James, had a best mark of 24 feet, 2 inches in the long jump as a student at Morse in 1997.

San Diego Section girls qualified 31 entries for today’s finals.

102^nd STATE TRACK TRIALS

@CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH VETERAN’S STADIUM

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINISHERS IN ITALICS

100—Redmond (L.A Carson), :11.56. 6. McCormick, (Scripps Ranch), :11.77.  17–Hatton (Sage Creek), :12.15w.

200—Redmond (L.A. Carson), :23.68. 6—Bean (Poway), :24.36. 10–Smith (La Jolla), 24.70w. 22–Swyney (Carlsbad), :25.40.

400—Cenci (Clovis North), :53.72.  4—Bean (Poway), :55.48. 

800—Engelhardt (Ventura), 2:10.13. 6—Buswell (Poway), 2:12.59.   9–Dixon (San Marcos), 2:13.00. 10–Arciaga (Westview), 2:13.42. 

1600—Frias ((Manhattan Beach Mira Costa), 4:49.83.  9—Riggins (Del Norte), 4:51.58. 20–McCall (El Camino (5:03.90). 22–Selbrede (Mt. Carmel), 5:06.09).

110 Hurdles—James (San Diego), :13.67).  6—Coleman (Cathedral), :14.23.  McCormick (Scripps Ranch) won heat but later disqualified.

300 Hurdles—K. Janik (Torrey Pines), :42.77. 2–Coleman (Cathedral), :42.93.  7–D. Janik (Torrey Pines), :43.85.

4×100 Relay—Santa Clarita Golden Valley, :45.82. 11–Cathedral, :48.32.  17–Carlsbad, :49.03. 25–Poway, :51.15.

4×1600 Relay—Calabasas, 3:46.73. 6—Poway, 3:52.21.  8—Del Norte, 3:56.40. 9—Carlsbad, 3:56.97.

High Jump—Slovis, Los Gatos, 5-6.  4—Tarczy (Scripps Ranch), 5-4.  T8—Moore-Bastide (Eastlake), 5-4.

Long Jump—Hope (Riverside King), 20-3 1/4w.  6—Hatton (Sage Creek), 19-1 1/4w. 18—Lankford (Rancho Bernardo), 17-7 ½.

Triple Jump—Gatlin (Mission Viejo), 40-9. 7—Miles (Point Loma), 38-1 3/4w. 10—Pingley (El Camino), 37-1.

Shot Put—Gordon (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame), 42-11 ¼.  2.  Clarke (Cathedral), 42-2 ¾. 11—Kimuli (Mira Costa), 39-4 ¾. 17. Loy (Del Norte), 37-9 ½.

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.

Pole Vault—Five at 12-7, including Wagner (Fallbrook), Leigh (Del Norte), Evans (Scripps Ranch), Downing (La Costa Canyon), Hansen (San Dieguito).  10–Thompson (Poway) and O’Connor (Rancho Bernardo), each at 12-3.