Track and field: Newport boys win league dual-meet title

COSTA MESA - David Sprenger and Alec Urtu won two events each for

Newport Harbor High’s boys track and field team Thursday as the host

Sailors defeated Woodbridge, 80-55, to clinch the Sea View League

dual-meet championship at Orange Coast College.

Sprenger was first in the long jump (20 feet, 9 1/2 inches) and triple

jump (42-5 3/4), and Urtu captured the 1,600 (4:39.9) and 3,200 (10:22),

as the Sailors finished unbeaten in four league dual meets.

Other individual winners for Harbor included Dartangan Johnson in the

200 (23.2), Zach Zarnow in the 300 intermediate hurdles (44.5) and Rion

McKinney in the shot put (50 feet).

In the girls meet, Woodbridge improved to 3-0 in league with a 78-58

victory over the Sailors (3-1).

Sophomore Jillianne Whitfield won the shot put (33-11) and discus

(114-11 1/2) for Newport Harbor, which also had individual wins from

Ashley Harrison in the 100 (12.7), Lauren Paul in the 3,200 (11:56.9),

Elizabeth Clayton in the 110 high hurdles (16.6) and Jennifer Ryder in

the 300 intermediates (49.7).