JSerra senior Brendon See was the best high school boys thrower in the state all season long.
He finished that way Saturday, winning the shot put and the discus titles at the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Buchanan High School in Clovis.
See won the discus with a throw of 196 feet, 4 inches. He won the shot put, too, with a top distance of 62-9.5.
During Friday’s prelims See had a discus throw of 199-9, the best in California this season.
See, who signed with Oklahoma, has been on top of the California shot put and discus leaderboard all season.
JSerra’s Jake Stafford was successful in two disparate events. Stafford, a senior who signed with UCLA, was sixth in the discus at 182-2 and won the high jump with a clearance of 6 feet, 7 inches.
See and Stafford led JSerra to 30 team points that were good enough for second place in the CIF State team standings. Granada Hills Charter of the Los Angeles City Section got six points from their third-place finish in the meet’s final event, the boys 4×400 relay, to finish first with 36 points.
Congrats boys!! These two balled out today! #GoLions #Allin pic.twitter.com/tp3RSjaTiP
— JSerraTF (@JSerraTF) May 28, 2023
San Clemente won the boys 4×800 race. The Tritons’ time of 7:38.59 is the best in California this season. Their previous best was 7:45.93, set last week at the CIF-SS Masters Meet.
JSerra’s girls 4×800 relay team finished second to Del Norte. JSerra’s 9.01.10 was better than its previous season best this season, 9:03.27.
Mater Dei senior Logan Lyght finished second in the 110 hurdles with a wind-legal 13.95, the county’s best time this season. The winner was Davis Davis-Lyric of Upland at 13.83.
Orange County’s best boys distance runner this year, Evan Noonan, a sophomore at Dana Hills, tripped and fell halfway through the 3,200. He was knocked off of the track, got up quickly and finished third at 8:56.63, five seconds behind winner Matthew Donis of Highland.
Mission Viejo senior Jada Gatlin was third in the triple jump with a mark of 40 feet, 3.25 inches. She got the third-place mark on her sixth and final attempt. The winner was Elsinore’s Dajeauna Williams at 40-7.75.
Laguna Hills sophomore Holly Barker was fifth in the 3,200 with a time of 10:11.56, her personal best by nine seconds.
Serra of Gardena senior Rodrick Pleasant lived up to the pre-meet publicity. Pleasant, who is going to Oregon on a football scholarship as a cornerback, won the 100 in a state meet record 10.20. Long Beach Jordan’s Jordan Washington was second at 10.30 to tie the previous state meet record.
Pleasant also won the 200 in 20.67. Pleasant took an early lead in the 200 and was never threatened.
What. A. Finish!
Our boys team finish as the runner-up at the 103rd California State Track and Field Championships. The highest finish in the schools history.
Congrats to Granada Hills on earning the title in dramatic fashion! pic.twitter.com/J0AiIqZ0tz
— JSerraTF (@JSerraTF) May 28, 2023
Yorba Linda’s Aidan Anstead and Merrick Heitz tied for first place in the boys 100 dash unified at 23.67.
Rylyn Shields of Trabuco Hills won the girls unified shot put Friday with a mark of 26 feet. 6 inches.
Carson Fox of Los Alamitos won the boys para shot put with a throw of 35 feet, 11 inches.
Yorba Linda won the mixed 400 relay unified Friday at 46.67 seconds.
Ventura sophomore Sadie Englehardt doubled, winning Saturday’s finals in the girls 800 and 1,600.
She finished the 800 in 2:07.22. JSerra junior Georgia Jeanneret was fourth at 2:09.85 followed by Newport Harbor sophomore Keaton Robar, who was fifth at 2:09.88.
Englehardt won the 1,600 in 4:33.45 to break the meet record set by Woodbridge’s Christine Babcock, who ran it in 4:33.82 in 2008. Dana Hills senior Allura Markow was 10th at 4:50.22, about eight seconds off her county-leading time of 4:42.79.
Los Alamitos junior Taj Clark was fourth in the boys 800 at 1:53.41.
