High School Roundup: Newport Harbor’s Kratzberg sets OC Champs meet record in 300 hurdles

GIRLS’ TRACK AND FIELD

Orange County Championships

MISSION VIEJO — Newport Harbor senior Emma Kratzberg won the 300-meter hurdles in 43.03 seconds, setting an OC Championships meet record, and she took first in both the 400 sprint and 100 hurdles, earning the sprinter/hurdler of the meet award at Mission Viejo High on Saturday.

Kratzberg, whose time in the 300 hurdles is also a personal best, broke the OC Championships record of 43.32 that Mater Dei’s Emma Radan set two years ago.

The Colorado State-bound athlete rallied to win the 400 in 55.95 seconds, which topped the Newport Harbor school record of 56.45 that she held.

In the 110 hurdles, Kratzberg finished in 14.54.

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BOYS’ TRACK AND FIELD

Orange County Championships

MISSION VIEJO — Sage Hill senior Chance Kuehnel finished first in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet 4 inches and placed third in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.04 seconds during the one-day meet at Mission Viejo High on Saturday.

Newport Harbor’s Cole Smith finished runner-up in the shotput with a heave of 59-9½ and fourth in the discus (167-2). Teammate Michael Jarboe took seventh in the shotput (52-8¼).

Newport Harbor’s Ryan Fegan placed fifth in the pole vault (13-10), Erik Herrera was seventh in the 800 (2:00.06) and Mark Field was 10th in the 1,600 (4:23.12).

The Sailors’ 4x400 relay team of Lars Hedendal, Travis Campos, Dylan Campos and Herrera took seventh in 3:32.21.