Golden Valley, Calabasas girls teams win titles
If you want to see the best combination of speed and teamwork, look no further than the Golden Valley and Calabasas girls 4x100meter relay teams.
Each set of four speeding ladies crowned themselves CIF Southern Section champions Saturday afternoon at Moorpark High School at the CIF Track and Field Finals.
Golden Valley's Kylee Davis, Tylar Gallien, Nevaeh Williams and Adonijah Currie won the Division 2 4x100 relay in 46.41 seconds. Calabasas' Brooklyn Kennedy, Zanae Woods, Zoe Ray and Lahela Ray won the Division 3 crown in 46.87.
The Calabasas girls also won the Division 3 4x400 relay in 3:51.56.
Golden Valley's girls track and field team won the CIF-SS Division 2 championship with a score of 86, blowing away second- and third-place finishers, Culver City (43) and Thousand Oaks (41), respectively.
Calabasas did the same in Division 3 with a team score of 80, but it was a much tighter finish. Harvard-Westlake finished second with 79 points.
Both teams will compete this week in the Masters Meet, which will be held Saturday at Moorpark High. Masters is the qualifier for the CIF State meet in Clovis on May 27-28.
Golden Valley holds the fastest 4x100 time in the state this season at 46.03.
Golden Valley's Currie also won the girls Division 2 200 title in dominating fashion in 23.82. The second-place
Adonijah Currie of Golden Valley runs the final leg of the Division 2 girls 4x100 relay during the CIF-SS Track and Field Finals at Moorpark High School on Saturday.
finisher crossed in 24.30.
Many more local standouts were crowned CIF champions, but the high point of the weekend came from Rodrick Pleasant of Gardena Serra. Pleasant set a new state-best mark this season in the 100 with a wind-aided 10.16 (+2.7), which etched his name into the history books as the second-best time in state history. Only Michael Norman of Vista Murrieta holds a faster time. Norman, now 24, was part of the United State 4x400 men's relay team that won gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Pleasant, a junior and a highly recruited football prospect, also won the 200
in 20.40 — the season's new top mark in California.
More standout performances
Golden Valley's Kylee Davis won girls Division 2 titles in the high jump and long jump. Her high jump was 5 feet, 8 inches, and her long jump was 19-11.5.
Long distance runner Aaron Sahlman of Newbury Park won the boys Division 1 800 in 1:52.54.
West Ranch sprinter Christopher Goode set a new state-best mark in the 400 with a blazing time of 46.94, which made him a Division 2 champion in the event.
Harvard-Westlake girls
soccer start Alyssa Thompson crowned herself the Division 3 champion in the 100 with a winning time of 11.69 that edged Calabasas' Zanae Woods (11.95).
Dario Rock of St. Francis won the boys Division 3 110 hurdles with a wind-aided 14.54 (+3.7). Notre Dame's Ava McCumber Gandara won the girls Division 3 400 in 54.66.
Thousand Oaks' Lauren Thai won the girls Division 2 100 hurdles in 14.50. Oaks Christian sophomore Niya Clayton won the girls Division 4 100 hurdles with a wind-aided 14.78 (+2.5). Oaks Christian freshman Eleanor Borchard won the 300 hurdles in 46.34.
Oaks Christian's Payton
TODAY'S BASEBALL, SOFTBALL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE
unless noted)
Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks* at Huntington Beach; JSerra at Villa Park
Division 2: Maranatha at Torrance; Etiwanda at Palos Verdes
Division 3: La Quinta High at La Sierra; Oaks Christian* at Newport Harbor
Division 4: Fullerton at Aquinas; El Modena at Tesoro, 3:30 p.m.
Division 5: Buena at Moreno Valley; Burroughs/Burbank* at Tustin
Division 6: Bellflower at Anaheim; Santa Ynez at Estancia Division 7: St. Bernard at Baldwin Park; Hueneme at Santiago/Garden Grove
CITY SECTION BASEBALL
(Games start at 3 p.m.)
Open Division: No. 9Chatsworth* at No. 8Carson; No. 12 Cleveland* at No. 5 Roosevelt; No. 10 San Pedro at No. 7 Sylmar*; No. 11 Sun Valley Poly* at No. 6 Marshall.
Notes: No. 1Granada Hills*, No. 2Birmingham*, No. 3El Camino Real* and No. 4Palisades received first-round byes. The quarterfinals are scheduled for Friday afternoon. Granada Hills will play the winner of Chatsworth-Carson. Palisades will play the winner of Roosevelt-Cleveland. Birmingham will play the winner of Sylmar-San Pedro. El Camino Real will play the winner of Marshall-Sun Valley Poly.
CITY SECTION SOFTBALL
(Games start at 3 p.m.)
Open Division: No. 4 San Pedro at No. 1 El Camino Real*; No. 7 Kennedy* at No. 6 Carson
Godsey won the girls Division 4 title in the 3,200 in 10:42.45. Alexis Fernandez of West Ranch won girls Division 2 3,200 in 10:46.95. Newbury Park's Sam McDonnel won the girls Division 1 3,200 in 10:28.92.
Viewpoint's JiaLian Mackey won the girls Division 4 1,600 title in 5.00.66.
Isis Diaz of Sierra Canyon won the girls Division 4 800 in 2:15.47.
Notre Dame's Hope Gordon won the girls Division 3 shot put with a winning throw of 41-3.
Golden Valley's Elijah Ellis won the boys Division 2 triple jump by almost 4 feet with a leap of 48-3.