Soquel High senior Jonelle Scott placed third in the girls’ pole vault final at the 104th CIF State Championships at Buchanan High in Clovis at Buchanan High on Saturday.
Scott cleared a height of 12 feet, 9 inches to break her school record by three inches. Pittsburg senior Jathiyah Muhammad won with a height of 13-9. Del Norte junior Paige Echsner (13-5) took second.
Scotts Valley resident Nathaniel Guillory, a senior at Los Altos, took third in the 200-meter race (21.27 seconds) and ninth to the 100 (10.63). Mt. Miguel sophomore Brandon Arrington Jr. took first in the 100 (10.33) and 200 (20.55).
Santa Cruz junior Eli Fitchen-Young took 20th out of 29 qualifiers in the boys’ 3,200-meter final. Fitchen-Young finished in 9:04.63. His personal-best and school record is 8:57.29, set at the Arcadia Invitational on April 6. Dana Hills junior Evan Noonan won the state title in 8:43.12.
Santa Cruz senior Luke Tanguay took seventh in his heat of the 300 hurdles prelims (39.50) on Friday. He had the 16th fastest time in the prelims. Canyon junior Jordehn Gammage took first in the final in 37.35.
Prefontaine Classic: Aptos native Nikki Hiltz took fifth place in the women’s 1,500-meter race at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday.
Hiltz, who identifies as transgender and nonbinary, finished in a season-best 3:59.64.
“I’m happy,” said Hiltz, in a post-race interview with Citius Mag. “I hit my goal, I competed well, second American, and broke 4, so I can’t complain.”
Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji won the race in a personal-best 3:53.75.
“I’ve been waiting for this race for a long time,” said Welteji, in her post-race interview. “I was just hoping to run a good time, but I’m really happy with how the race turned out. Training has just been going much better as of recently. It’s taken a little while to get to this time, but now everything’s good.”
Jessica Hull took second in an Australian record and personal-best 3:55.97. American Elle St. Pierre took third in a personal-best 3:56.00, and Great Britain’s Laura Muir took fourth in a season-best 3:56.35.
Three other Americans were in the 14-runner field. Emily Mackay took sixth in a personal-best 3:59.76, Sinclaire Johnson took ninth in a season-best 4:00.43, and Elise Cranny took 13th in a season-best 4:03.08, and Cory Ann McGee took 14th in 4:04.91.
The U.S. Olympic Team Trials take place at Hayward Field on June 21-30.
“I think from here on out it’s how do we shift off of 64 (seconds) pace,” said Hiltz, of working with coach Mike Smith. “And how do you get those gears the last 100? My splits were probably really even today, which I’m happy with, but I think for the Trials I want my gears back.”
High school baseball
Archbishop Mitty 6, St. Ignatius 2: Freshman right fielder Derek Allen, an Aptos resident, had a bunt single and scored a run to help No. 5 seed Monarchs beat the No. 7 Wildcats in the Central Coast Section Division I Championship at Excite Ballpark on Saturday night.
It’s the sixth section title in the sport for the Monarchs (19-12-1), who beat No. 4 Burlingame in the quarterfinals and No. 1 Valley Christian in the semifinals.
Former Scotts Valley resident Carson Seeger, a junior pitcher, also plays for Mitty and earned the win in the semifinals.
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