Junior high track and field: CdM girls win district crown
Corona del Mar middle school girls athletes won nine individual
events en route to earning the team title at the recent Newport-Mesa
Junior High Track and Field Championships.
CdM won the overall crown, racking up 243 points, well ahead of
runner-up Dwyer of Huntington Beach (168.5). The CdM girls won the
5-foot-4-and under, seventh- and eighth-grade divisions.
District 5-4-and-under records were set by Annie St. Geme in the 1,600
meters (5:43.26) and Kelly Morgan in the 400 (1:04.2). Morgan was also
first in the 100 (13.5).
Jenna Adams won the seventh-grade 100 (13.7), 200 (29.3) and long jump
(13-9) and also contributed to the winning 400 relay (56.5).
The CdM boys finished second with 137 points, behind TeWinkle, which
scored 263.
Matthew Lutton, competing in the seventh-grade boys division, won the
100 in 12.4 and the 200 in 27.1. Thomas Folks took first in the long jump
(14-26), while Dean Pospisil won the 400 (1:01.6).
CdM girls placed second in nine events.
Tiffany Lui was second in the long jump (13-3 1/3) and the high jump
(4-6) in the 5-4-and-under division, while Michele Allred placed second
in the 100 (13.4) and the 200 (28.7) in eighth-grade competition.
Runner-up finishes were also turned in by CdM’s Tess Hodges in the 800
(2:45.4), Jill Damion in the shot put (30-8 1/2), Ann Klunder in the shot
put (30-5 3/4), Corianne Leyton in the long jump (12-11 1/4) and Audree
Smith in the shot put (33-9).
CdM boys who finished second were: Pospisil in the 100 (12.8); John Fairbanks (41-8 1/2) in the shot put and Shawn Engmann in the high jump
(5-4).
CdM girls finished third in four events. Hodges ran the 1,600 in
5:52.68, while St. Geme captured third in the 1,600 (5:55.84) and the 800
(2:44.9). Leyton was third in the 200 (29.2).
CdM boys also finished third in three events. Tim Scott ran the 1,600
in 5:33.80, David Yi put the shot 38-4 1/2 and Mike Angelo ran the 200 in
25.9.
CdM girls finished fourth in five events, including Katherine
Kaczmarek, who was fourth in the 100 (14.1), the 200 (29.4) and the high
jump (4-4). Emily Foster ran the 1,600 in 6:05.49.
Fourth-place boys finishers from CdM included Scott in the 800
(2:37.7), William Halford in the 1,600 (5:26.36), Jon Hange in the high
jump (4-6), Angelo in the 100 (12.4), Engmann in the long jump (16-2) and
Avery Fenton in the shot put (41 1/2).
CdM fifth-place girls finishers included Foster in the 800 (2:45),
Ashley Beck in the 100 (14.2) and Anna Cheng in the long jump (12-7 1/4).
CdM’s fifth-place boys finishers were: Engmann in the 100 (12.4);
Peter Eberhard in the high jump (5-2); Jack Turner in the 1,600; and
Hange in the shot put (30-10 1/2).
Mike Orozco was sixth in the 100 (12.4) and the 200 (26.4), while CdM
teammate Taylor Good was sixth in the shot put (38-0 1/2), and Charles
Vickery was sixth in the 1,600 (5:37.42).
CdM’s girls sixth-place finishers included Leyton in the 100 (13.8),
Anne Claster in the 1,600 (6:28.76) and Morgan in the long jump (12-5).
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