First Track Meet Results

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LETTING 'ER RIP -- Jihun Chun of Christian Learning unleashes a discus throw. He finished sixth. Hamin Choi, Christian Learning

RECORD PACE -- Christian Learning's boys 4X100 relay team roots home anchorman Mark Salinas. The team chopped almost four seconds off old record. Jonatan Muñoz, International

AMAZING FLYING GIRLS -- First heat of girls 100 meters (l-r Tania Landivar, Monica Rocabado, Maria Victoria Gutierrez, and Mariela Salinas) never touched the ground. Jonatan Muñoz, International

Jaguar boys, Griffin girls triumph in track

The Cooperative boys and International girls emerged victorious in the season's first track and field meet held last Friday and Saturday.
The Jaguar boys victory, their first in track since 2006, was a narrow one over second-place Christian Learning. The Jaguars amassed 110 points to the Eagle boys' 105. Both finished ahead of International, previously a perennial track powerhouse, whose boys team had 79 points. Cambridge was a distant fourth with 28.
The victory of the Griffin girls was decisive. They piled up 148 points, well ahead of Christian Learning with 64 points, Cooperative with 54 points, and Cambridge with 16.

The point totals from the first meet are totaled with the points from the SCISL Championship Meet April 9-10 to determine the team championships. The running events were held Friday at Tahuichi Stadium, and the field events were conducted Saturday morning at International.

Four league records were broken or tied during the meet, including both boys relay events.
Eagle runner Abby Phillips smashed a record set just last year by Carmen Mansur of International in the 400 meters with a clocking of 1:05.52. The old record was 1:08.66. Mansur finished second Friday.

Equally spectacular was the 3:56.40 clocking of the Christian Learning 4 x 400 relay team of Mark Salinas, Jesse Hallock, Andre Larsen, and Danny Canaviri that lowered the old record of 4:00.3 by an International team that had stood since 2007. The Eagle achievement also helps clean up the SCISL record book, since the names of the holders of the old record had been, somewhat embarrassingly, lost in the sands of time.

And in terms of percentage reduction, the achievement of the Cooperative 4 x 100 relay team of Miguel Papadopoulos, Milan Marinkovic, Sergio Gonzalez, and Renzo Pinto, which won that event in a time of :47.94, handily beating the old mark of :49.12 set last year by International.

In the girls high jump Florenia Sosa of International tied her own record of 1.40 meters. She had jumped that high previously in both 2008 and 2009.

The full results of the meet were as follows:

Running events

Girls 1500 meters -- Maria Fornaguera, Cambridge; Sharon Gabler, Christian Learning. (Winning time: 6:30.00)

Boys 1500 meters -- Danny Canaviri, Christian Learning; Alexander Nagel, Cambridge; Jorge Zankis, Cooperative (5:05.00)

Girls 100 meters -- Laura Gutierrez, International; Mariela Salinas, Christian Learning; Maria Victoria Gutierrez, International (:14.60)

Boys 100 meters -- Jesse Hallock, Christian Learning; Renzo Pinto, Cooperative; Cristian Coronado, International (:12.2)

Girls 400 meters -- Abby Phillips, Christian Learning; Carmen Mansur, International; Leila Jueril, International (1:05.52)

Boys 400 meters -- Andres Percy, International; Andre Larsen, Christian Learning; Federico Sauto, Cooperative (:57.78)

Girls 200 meters -- Mariela Salinas, Christian Learning; Maria Victoria Gutierrez, International; Laura Maragaño, Internationa (:31.21)

Boys 200 meters -- Renzo Pinto, Cooperative; Jesse Hallock, Christian Learning; Tae Han Kook, Cambridge (:24.57)

Girls 800 meters -- Carolina Baldivieso, International; Florencia Sosa, International; Kassandra Morales, Cooperative (3:13.00)

Boys 800 meters -- Mark Salinas, Christian Learning; Daniel Roempler, International; Jose Moza, Cooperative (2:29.00)

Girls 4 x 100 relay -- International (Laura Magagaño, Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Ana Gutierrez, Flavia Nostas); Christian Learning; Cooperative (:59.88)

Boys 4 x 100 relay -- Cooperatiuve (Miguel Papadopoulos, Milan Marinkovic, Sergio Gonzalez, Renzo Pinto); International; Christian Learning (:47.94)

Girls 4 x 400 relay -- International (Flavia Nostas, Maria Victoria Gutierrez, Carolina Baldivieso, Beatriz Nallar); Cooperative (5:29.00)

Boys 4 x 400 relay -- Christian learning (Jesse Hallock, Andre Larsen, Danny Canaviri, and Mark Salinas); International (3:56.40)

Field Events

Girls discus -- Beatriz Nallar; Maureen Harrison, Cooperatiuve; Carolina Baldivieso, International (18.85 meters)

Boys discus -- Nicolas Smith, Christian Learning; Ezequiel Chavez, Cooperative; Sebastian Kyllman, Cooperative (25.29 meters)

Girls shot put -- Beatriz Nallar, International; Laura Maragaño, International; Abbhy Phillips, Christian Learning (8.98 meters)

Boys shot put --´Sebastian Kyllman, Cooperative; Ezequiel Chavez, Cooperative; Andres Rodas, International (11.55 meters)

Girls long jump -- Laura Maragaño, International; Carolinia Baldivieso, International; Nabila Farah, Cooperative (3.63 meters)

Boys long jump -- Cristian Coronado, International; Milan Marinkovic, Cooperative; Danny Canaviri, Christian Learning (5.08 meters)

Girls high jump -- Florencia Sosa, International; Abby Phillips, Christian Learning; Maria Jose Rivero, Cooperative (1.40 meters)

Boys high jump -- Milan Marinkovic, Cooperative; Danny Canaviri, Christian Learning; Andre Larsen, Christian Learning (1.60 meters)