Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Bishop Gorman boys grab second consecutive crown Small-school track and field
Moore sets record in triple jump, but she wanted 42 feet
Bishop Gorman’s boys track team won its first state title last season.
It didn’t take long to get a second one.
The Gaels took a sizable lead into Saturday’s final day of the Class 4A Boys
■ Valley’s Christian Franklin won the 800 and 1,600 and ran a meet record of 9:34.36 in the 3,200 in the Class 3A state meet.
■ Mojave’s Devinn Houston won the long jump and triple jump, and teammate Noah Thompson won the 100 and 200 to help the Rattlers win the Class 3A state title.
■ Spring Mountain’s Zakari Tucker won the 110 hurdles and triple jump to help the Golden Eagles claim the Class 1A state title.
Girls
■ Del Sol’s Charleyanse Howard won the 100, 200 and triple jump in the Class 3A state meet.
■ Sunrise Mountain’s Kapua Pulotu won the shot put and discus in the Class 3A state meet.
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Coronado’s Justin Watterson had one of the meet’s feel-good moments.
After falling in the 110 hurdles Friday, Watterson won the 300 hurdles in 37.4, finishing off a race in which he was narrowly trailing Canyon Springs senior Torian Hammond before Hammond fell before the final hurdle.
Desert Oasis’ Conner Nicholas added the 3,200 title (9:41.37) to the 1,600 title he won Friday.
Liberty’s Corey Moore finished off his domination of the throwing events, winning the discus (189-2) by almost 30 feet and taking the shot put (55-4¾).
Girls
Ashley Moore wasn’t thrilled with just a state meet record.
The Centennial junior set the meet record Saturday in the triple jump at the Class 4A state track championships at Desert Oasis, going 40-5¾ on one of her preliminary jumps.
But she didn’t meet her own lofty standards.
“Today, 42 (feet) was the goal,” said Moore, who won the long jump Friday. “I scratched the big jumps today.”
Missing that goal was about all that went wrong for the Bulldogs girls all weekend.
Centennial ran away with its ninth-straight Class 4A championship, scoring 126 points. Runners-up Carson and Sierra Vista each had 54.
“I’m happy,” Moore said. “It wasn’t my best day, but not my worst.”
Bulldogs junior Quincy Bonds repeated as the champion in the 300 hurdles, finishing in 43.71. She won the 100 hurdles and ran on the winning 400 relay team Friday.
Teammate Kennedy Brace contributed two titles Saturday. She ran a personal record 54.82 to win the 400 in the morning but made a face of disgust at the finish line.
“I was really upset,” Brace said. “My goal this year was 53. I will be looking for bigger as the (club) season goes on this summer.”
Brace then seemed to take out some of that early frustration during her anchor leg on the winning 1,600 relay to end the girls meet in the afternoon.
When Brace took the baton for the final 400 meters, Centennial was third behind Sierra Vista and Arbor View.
By the end of the first turn, Brace had passed Arbor View. Before the back straightaway curved into the final turn, she had blown by Sierra Vista, bringing home the title in 3:55.86.
Rancho’s Amir’a Edmond won the 100 on Friday and claimed the 200 in 24.43 on Saturday.
Liberty’s Aaliyah Soa won the shot put (44-5¾) and discus (144-8). easy time of winning the Class 4A state title at the Carson Aquatic Club.
Palo Verde scored 109 points. Galena was second with 83 and Bishop Gorman third with 73.
“Last year we lost by 20, and that was just something we wanted to make up for,” Palo Verde coach Brent Gonzalez said. “We’ll enjoy this, and it will make the ride a little easier.”
Chloe Freeman won two events for the Panthers, taking the 100-yard butterfly in 56.55 seconds and the 500 freestyle in 5:00.11.
Palo Verde’s Paige Kuwata won the 200 freestyle in 1:52.36, and teammate Reese Hazen won the 200 individual medley in 2:03.81
The biggest concern for the Panthers was whether junior Victoria Gutierrez would be able to swim because of a back injury. She did and finished fifth in the 50 and 100 freestyles.
“Overall we were well-balanced,” Gonzalez said. “We just came out and swam.”
Bishop Gorman’s Audrey Yu had a hand in four wins. She won the girls 50 freestyle in 23.10 and the 100 freestyle in 50.84 and swam on the Gaels’ winning 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams.
In Class 3A, Boulder City won its seventh consecutive state championship with 146 points, nipping second-place Truckee, which had 135.
“We didn’t have a lot of wiggle room, but the girls just did what they had to do,” Boulder City coach Sara Carroll said.
Boulder City’s Aimee Garcia won the 200 freestyle in 1:55.63 and the 500 freestyle in 5:07.58, and teammate Rose Pouch took the 200 IM in 2:05.06 and the 100 butterfly in 56.74.
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