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Looking back, 5 years ago this week:
Newport Harbor High freshman Amber Steen wins the girls 1,600
meters in 5:09 at the Sea View League track and field finals at
Irvine High. Corona del Mar sophomore sensation Liz Morse, a state
finalist in the 800, wins the event in 2:15.97 while freshman
teammate Jenny Cummins takes second in 2:19.63. Sea Kings’ senior
captain Jennifer Blair takes the 3,200 (11:06), finishing ahead of
runner-up Alicia McFall (11:07) from Newport Harbor. Newport Harbor
sophomore April Ross will also make her way to the CIF Southern
Section preliminaries with three second-place finishes in the long
jump (16 feet, 11 1/2 inches), high jump (5-2) and triple jump (35-10
3/4).
Newport Harbor’s Eddie Clark throws 157-9 to win the boys discus .
Newport Harbor junior Steve Jensen wins the 800, while CdM senior
Matt Dennerline wins the 3,200. Newport senior Chuck Loo wins the
triple jump (43-2 1/4), a season best. Costa Mesa High boys capture
seven individual Pacific Coast League titles, the most ever for the
school at the league track and field finals. Senior Richard Price
wins the 110 high hurdles and 300 intermediate hurdles, while senior
thrower Matthew Rudesill takes the shot put and discus. Junior Bruce
Hancock earns titles in the 800 and 1,600 and senior Brian Browning
places first in the high jump. The Mustangs’ 400 relay team of Ronnie
Sou, Brad Jones, Greg Stewart and Edwin Martinez also qualifies for
the CIF preliminaries with a 45.8 clocking. Mesa finishes fourth in
the team standings. Estancia junior Alberto Munoz wins the PCL title
in the 3,200, blowing away the field in 9:50. Browning wins the high
jump at 5-10 and Rudesill takes first in the discus (161-1 1/2) and
shot put (54-5 1/4). Hancock ties University’s Martin Brix in the
1,600 (4:23), but is a clear-cut winner in the 800 (1:58.4).
CdM’s Lance Emery defends his Sea View League crown in the 50-yard
freestyle, shattering a personal best, then stuns the field in the
100 free at the Sea View League swim finals. Emery is the lone
champion from the Back Bay contingent of CdM and Newport Harbor. CdM
seniors Kawika Tarayao and Scott Kramer, along with Newport junior
Kevin Becker and Sailor senior Jason Arrow, all post top-five
finishes. Emery swims 21.56 in the 50 free, edging Becker (22.15).
Looking back, 10 years ago this week:
Newport Harbor High’s girls win six titles at the Sea View League
track and field finals. Newport’s 400-meter relay team of Nikki
Adams, Michaela Ross, Misty May and Lindsey Curtis win the Sailors’
ninth-straight league title in the event with a time of 50.1 seconds.
Curtis also adds individual championships in the 100 (12.91) and 300
hurdles (48.60). Ross wins the long jump with a 17-0 1/2 mark, while
sophomore Tina Bowman claims first place in the high jump (5-6).
Junior Gina Heads reaches 42-10 to win the shot put. Brennan and Ross
both clear 5-6 to tie a meet record in the high jump, while Curtis
wins her second consecutive league title in the 300 hurdles. Corona
del Mar is led by freshman Kelly Campbell, who runs a personal-best
11:01.4 in the 3,200, while also winning the 1,600 in 5:13.35,
qualifying for the CIF prelims in both events.
CdM’s boys swim team comes back to stun Woodbridge, 16-15, for the
Sea View League championship. Woodbridge defeats CdM, 90-60, in a
league dual meet earlier in the season, making the victory at league
finals even sweeter for CdM. The Sea Kings win their third straight
league title and eighth in the past nine years. Crosby Grant shatters
a 13-year-old league record in the 100-yard backstroke (53.01),
bettering the 54.49 set by Irvine’s Blair Murphy. Rob Hoover wins a
league title in the 200 individual medley, swimming a CIF qualifying
time of 1:58.46. James Palda touches first in the 100 butterfly
(54.22). Steve Hamilton, Tom Norton, Grant and Hoover then team up to
win the 200 free relay (1:27.18). Newport’s Brett McAllister
qualifies for CIF with a third-place finish in the 50 free (22.32)
and posts a fourth-place time of 48.90 in the 100 free.
Troubled with shin splints earlier in the season, Estancia High
senior James Wulkowicz claims the 800 in 2:01.7 during the Pacific
Coast League track and field finals at Trabuco Hills High. Johann
Appell and Brian Chung finish first and second, respectively, in the
3,200 for Estancia. The Eagles’ Lauren Weaver (300 hurdles in 48.0)
and Costa Mesa’s Gigi Surmon (100 hurdles in 16.32) each win league
titles -- compiled by Bryce Alderton
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