Jaguar girls, Griffin boys win track meet
The Cooperative girls and International boys track teams achieved victories in their respective categories in the opening meet of the track season held Friday and Saturday.
The Jaguars had been ahead in both competitions after Friday's running events at Tahuichi Stadium, but the International boys were able to regain the lead in the field events held at International Saturday morning.
The Griffin girls cut the Jaguar lead in the field events, but Cooperative prevailed by four points.
The final point totals were as follows:
Girls: Cooperative 134; International 130; Cambridge 21; Christian Learning, 20.
Boys: International 133; Cooperative 119: Cambridge 55: Christian Learning, 16.
The team championships are determined by combining the points from this meet with points scored in the championship meet slated for March 27-28.
The athletes who participated in the first track meet were still very much in early season form, and many athletes were absent. Christian Learning had only token participation in the meet, and did not participate in any of the relays.
Nonetheless, two League records were set in the running events, both by Jaguar freshman star Sofia Sotelo.
Sotelo knocked about sixteen seconds off her own record in the girls 1500 meters with a clocking of 5:38.04, and then took four seconds off the record in the 800 meters with a time of 2:43.26. The old record had been set by Whitney Belovicz of Christian Learning, who finished a distant second to Sotelo Friday.
Renzo Pinto was a triple winner for the Cooperative boys, sweeping the 100, 200, and 400, but did not threaten the League records in those events, one of which (the 200) he currently holds.
Two more records were broken in the field events, both of these by Nicolas "Yeyo" Bedoya of International. He added five millimeters to the high jump record he had held jointly with Manfred Grote of Cambridge and teammate Martin Fernandz with a leap of 1.70 meters.
Bedoya then shaved 2 millimeters off the long jump record held by teammate Marc Antonio Parada by jumping 5.55 meters. Parada finished second.
Results by event:
Girls 1500 meters -- Sofia Sotelo, Cooperative (5:38.04); Florencia Sosa, International; Laura Sanchez, International.
Boys 1500 meters -- Danny Canaviri, Christian Learning (5:07.88); Junior Sanchez, Cambridge; Alexander Nagel, Cambridge.
Girls 100 meters -- Kaira Czerniewicz, Cooperative (:15.07); Tania Landivar, Cooperative; Valeria Feijoo, International.
Boys 100 meters -- Renzo Pinto, Cooperative (:12.02); Mario Rohrman, International: Sergio Gonzales, Cooperative.
Girls 400 meters -- Jessica Smith, Christian Learning (1:14.79); Maria Isabel Barrenechea, International; Luciana Adriazola, Cooperative.
Boys 400 meters -- Renzo Pinto, Cooperative (:58.88); Jose Alfredo Abuawad, Cooperative; David Huang, International.
Girls 800 meters -- Sofia Sotelo, Cooperative (2:43.26); Whitney Belovicz, Christian Learning; Raquel Lopez, Cambridge.
Boys 800 meters -- Nicolas Bedoya, International (2:34.25); Lorenzo Chiovolomi, Cooperative; Joaquin Castañedo, International.
Girls 200 meters -- Maria Victoria Gutierrez, International (:32.05); Kaira Czerniewicz, Cooperative; Tania Landivar, Cooperative.
Boys 200 meters -- Renzo Pinto, Cooperative (:25.54); Jose Bedoya, International; Tae Han Kook, Cambridge.
Girls 4 x 100 meters relay -- Cooperative (Macareña Valdez, Tania Landivar, Kaira Czerniewicz, Audrey Saucedo) 1:02.96; International; Cambridge.
Boys 4 x 100 meters relay -- Cooperative: International; Cambridge.
Girls 4 x 400 meters relay -- International (Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Florencia Sosa, Maria Isabel Barrenechea, Carmen Mansur) 5:13.65; Cooperative (No other teams competed).
Boys 4 x 400 meters relay -- International (David Huang, Joaquin Casteñado, Nicolas Bedoya, Marco Parada) 4;21.43; Cooperative; Cambridge.
Girls long jump -- Florncia Sosa, International 3.64 meters; 2. Maria Victoria Gutierrez, International; Carla Limpias, Cooperative.
Boys long jump -- Nicolas Bedoya, International 5.55 meters; Marco Parada, International; Alvaro Lopez, Cambridge.
Girls high jump -- Florencia Sosa, International, 1.40 meters; Flava Nostas, International. (No other athletes cleared the qualifying height.)
Boys high jump -- Nicolas Bedoya, International, 1.70 meters; Diego Morles, Cooperative; Diego Nostas, International.
Girls discus -- Alexia Handal, Cooperative, 18.09 meters; Ana Pauda Peredo, Cooperative; Camila Johnson, International.
Boys discus -- Marco Antonio Parada, International, 26.55; Diego Morales, Cooperative; Daniel Kim, Cambridge.
Girls shot put -- Camila Johnson, International, 7.76; Alexia Handal, Cooperative; Carla Limpias, Cooperative.
Boys shot put -- Diego Nostas, International, 11.12; Sebastian Gylman, Cooperative; Diego Morales, Cooperative.
