Boys and girls track and field: CdM triumphs in season-opener

Steve Virgen

CORONA DEL MAR - Running through a whipping, chilly wind, the

Corona del Mar High track and field teams opened their seasons as the Sea

Kings blew away the competition Thursday.

The CdM boys pounded visiting Calvary Chapel of Santa Ana, 119-9, and

the Sea Kings’ girls won, 103-16.

The season-opening meet marked Julie Allen’s debut as a Sea King

runner. A standout at Fountain Valley High, she was second at the Orange

County cross country championships last fall, after being named Orange

County Runner of the Year in 1999.

Allen, a junior, finished first in the 800-meter race and the 1,600.

She also ran the leadoff leg of the 1,600 relay to help Becky Cummins,

Katherine Morse and Jenny Cummins win unopposed in 4:21.7.

“The (CdM) track program,” Allen said. “The coaches, the people ...

you couldn’t ask for anything more.”

She said she ran in the rain this week just so she could be ready for

Thursday’s meet. Her outgoing personality and tireless work ethic has

quickly made her fit in at CdM, Coach Bill Sumner said.

“She’s a workhorse,” Sumner said. “Her famous words are, ‘What’s

next?’ There is a high class for distance running here and she fits right

in that mold.”

Sumner also mentioned Allen would be a huge factor in helping the Sea

Kings defend their Pacific Coast League and CIF Southern Section Division

III titles.

The distance events were not the only show at the meet. CdM athletes

won every event. Yet, the wind kept runners from clocking sterling times.

Also, this week’s rain prevented the Sea Kings from putting in ample

training sessions.

But Sumner urged his runners to be ready for the meet against Calvary

Chapel, rain or shine.

“We would have liked to have been a little better than this today,”

Sumner said. “But, we’re glad to get the meet off. The wind makes it a

little chilly and a little challenging, but we got a good workout in.”

Senior Jaycee Mahler received above-average training as she practiced

in the rain and played in the mud for the girls soccer team, which ended

its season Tuesday.

Mahler won the 100 and 300 intermediate hurdles. She also anchored the

400 relay victory.

Junior Krisserin Canary and sophomores Jen Way and Jillian Ukropina,

along with Mahler, won in 55.6 seconds. Canary took first in the 100,

triple jump and pole vault.

The boys also won the 400 relay. Jon-Luke Del Fante, Brandon Zarian,

Geoff Collier and Mike DiSano finished in 47.4.

Del Fante took top honors in the 200 and Collier won the 100. Sea King

senior Josh Yelsey, who is bound for Yale in the fall, won the 400 and

1,600.

CdM’s Chris Carpenter (110 high and 300 intermediate hurdles), Travis

Beardslee (800 and 3,200), Reid Varner (high jump), Alex Vincent (long

jump), Dave Northrup (shot put) and Erik Knupple (pole vault) brought

home first-place points.

Sea Kings Jenny Cummins (200 and 400), Season Meservey (3,200),

Allison Brawner (high jump), Jessica Palermo (long jump) and Carolyn

Shettler (shot put) finished in first.

NONLEAGUE

BOYS

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100 - 1. Collier (CdM), 11.8; 2. Del Fante (CdM), 11.8; 3. DiSano

(CdM), 12.2.

200 - 1. Del Fante (CdM), 23.9; 2. Collier (CdM), 24.9; 3. DiSano

(CdM), 25.3.

400 - 1. Yelsey (CdM), 53.4; 2. Allen (CC), 56.0; 3. Calas (CC), 56.8.

800 - 1. Beardslee (CdM), 2:06.3; 2. Dillion (CdM), 2:14.7; 3. Thomas

(CC), 2:23.8.

1,600 - 1. Yelsey (CdM), 4:29.6; 2. Hodges (CdM), 5:10.2; 3. Inouye

(CdM), 5:18.6.

3,200 - 1. Beardslee (CdM), 10:30.1; 2. Hodges (CdM), 11:32.8; 3.

Pomerantz (CdM), 11:50.0.

110 HH - 1. Carpenter (CdM), 17.4; 2. Fransen (CdM), 20.5; no third.

300 IH - 1.Carpenter (CdM), 46.2; Fransen (CdM), 51.1; no third.

400 relay - 1. CdM (DiSano, Collier, Zarian, Del Fante), 47.4.

1,600 relay - 1. CdM (Dillion, Knuppel, Del Fante, Yelsey), 3:44.4.

HJ - 1. Varner (CdM), 5-3; 2. Wiseman (CdM), 5-3; 3. Brown (CdM),

4-11.

LJ - 1. Vincent (CdM), 18-3; 2. Marshall (CdM), 18-0; 3. Allen (CC),

16-9.

TJ - not contested.

PV - 1. Knupple (CdM), 12-0; 2. Norman (CdM), 10-0; 3. Turco, 10-0.

SP - 1. Northrup (CdM), 37-10; 2. Barber (CdM), 36-8; 3. Wald (CdM)

34-11.

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GIRLS

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100 - 1. Canary (CdM), 13.9; 2. Conner (CC) 11.33; 3. Johnson (CM)

12.33.

200 - 1. J. Cummins (CdM), 27.2; 2. Skistimas (CC), 27.4; 3. B.

Cummins, 29.0.

400 - 1. J. Cummins (CdM), 1:02.2; 2. Skistimas (CC), 1:04.3; 3. Morse (CdM), 1:06.5.

800 - 1. Allen (CdM), 2:27.4; 2. Hossfeld (CdM), 2:29.0; 3. B. Cummins

(CdM), 2:34.9.

1,600 - 1. Allen (CdM), 5:13.7; 2. Hossfeld (CdM), 5:22.6; 3. K.

Quinlan (CdM), 5:28.2.

3,200 - 1. Meservey (CdM), 12:15.4; 2. K. Quinlan (CdM), 12:46.4; 3.

Hossfeld (CdM), 12:46.5.

100 H - 1. Mahler (CdM) 2. Dubin (CdM); 3. T. Quinlan (CdM).

300 H - 1. Mahler (CdM) 52.5; no second or third.

400 relay - 1. CdM (Canary, Way, Ukropina, Mahler), 55.6.

1,600 Relay - 1. CdM (Allen, B. Cummins, Morse, J. Cummins), 4:21.7.

HJ - 1. Brawner (CdM), 5-4; 2. Kendrick (CdM), 4-8; 3. Fisher (CdM),

4-8.

LJ - 1. Palermo (CdM), 12-8; 2. Quintanilla (CC), 12-7; 3. Kendrick

(CdM), 12-2.

TJ - 1. Canary (CdM), 29-9; 2. Palermo (CdM), 29-3; 3. Kendrick (CdM),

26-5.

PV - 1. Canary (CdM), 9-0; 2. Weber (CdM), 7-0; 3. Chulapatrcheevin

(CdM), 6-6.SP - 1. Shettler (CdM), 22-1; 2. Pagano (CdM), 21-5; 3.

Tartaglini (CdM), 18-5.

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