4x 800 Relay
Winner: Long Beach Poly - Briana Powell(Sr), Leah Richmond(Fr), Danielle Santos(Fr,2:22), and Bournes(Jr, 2:13) 9:14.41. Runner-up - ArchBishop Mitty, 9:17.13. 3rd place: Reno - D. Glenn, M. Glenn, N. Lajeunesse, and Mel Lawrence 9:21.96
Reno’s D. Glenn, led of the first leg in fine 2:18 closely shadowed by ArchBishop Mitty. Briana Powell brought Long Beach Poly into 3rd with a 2:19. By the second leg, Poly’s Richmond had regained the lead to reach halfway in 4:38(2:19). Reno was third , 4:39(2:21) with tough ArchBishop Mitty closely behind.
Mitty’s third leg shot into the lead halfway through her leg and battled Reno’s N. Lajeunesse and Poly’s Santos, and led through the exchange, 6:59. Poly was one second back in 7:00(2:22) with Reno at 7:02(2:23).
Poly’s Bournes regained the lead with a quick fast lap and blew the race wide open as Mitty battled to stay close. Bournes, a junior, continued to barrel along posting a 2:13 to bring her team in first. Mitty finished strong in 2nd[9:16(2:17)] and Reno, who was anchored by Foot Locker runner-up, Mel Lawrence, came home third in 9:21(2:19), to set a new Nevada state record.
Bournes, anchor
“It was a really close race for us. I saw her the whole time because of her shadow. I knew it was going to be close because last year was hard. We came in here thinking we would have to run hard, and we did. I was just hoping our third leg, Vania would come in strong and she did. I was thinking, if she keeps us in at least the top three, we can win. We train really well and I think we were ready for it. I didn’t plan to take the lead so early. Our coach always just tells us to get out, so I just got out. I knew that if I would have got out and maintained like he told us to, even if we got second, he would have been mad, but I would have been happy because I tried. You just gotta go for it. I do varsity cross country and soccer. Soccer was over in March so I’ve been training since then.
I think the time is great. We didn’t know where we were at combined. We just did a good job because we had two freshman. We just tried new things and everything worked ok.
4 x 200 Relay
Long Beach Poly’s lead-off, Shana Solomon was in lane 5. West Catholic’s Nicole Leach was lined up in lane 6. At the crack of the gun, the two teams got out quickly and by the hand-off, Solomon had made up the stagger on Leach. Jasmine Lee sped around the corner to extend the lead, handing off to Shana Woods who broke well ahead of West Catholic. All-American Shalonda Solomon got the stick and ate up the curve coming home strong to set a new national record of 1:33.87.
The time shattered the mark, 1:34.51 set by Alief Elsik last year. Also, it beat rival Long Beach Wilson’s national leading 1:35.22 set at the Texas Relays by an eye-popping 1.35 seconds.
Shalonda Solomon, anchor
“ It feels great because so far we’ve been going through trials and tribulations. We’re just glad we were able to come out and do what we had to do. Our team has been getting hurt and I had a foot sprain. It kind of hurts a little bit. Our team has been kind of hurting a lot. We’ve worked through it and just came out here and got over it. I think the time is great. We’ve been striving to be the best and do our best and we did.”
On her maintaining her fitness throughout the season: “I’m going to have to have to.”
Shana Solomon, 1st leg
RQ: You seemed to have the toughest leg with Nicole Leach lined up next to you.
Solomon: Exactly. I just felt I had to run relaxed and worry about what I was doing. I didn’t want to worry about who I was running against. I did what the coaches told me to do and know that I can do all those things through Christ.
RQ: Did you feel that you ran with Leach?
Solomon: Yeah. I thought I did my best. I felt I could have run harder in the beginning like my coaches told me, but I did what I could and we won, so that is all that matters.
RQ: What does this mean to share all these records with your sister?
Solomon: I’m very happy. Although this is our last year running together, I want us to go out there with a bang. I’m going to miss her when she goes to South Carolina. I just love all my team.
1600m Sprint Medley
Winner: West Catholic 3:59.74
West Catholic got solid efforts from their first three legs to give Latavia Thomas a huge lead heading into the final leg. From there Thomas strode in to just get under 4:00.
Nicole Leach
“ The double (with 4x200) was back to back so it was tough, but we did well. My start wasn’t too good in the 4 x 200m, but besides that I did fine. That 1:33 by Poly, you can’t compete with that unless you just have the legs. We did well. I was a personal best. I just hope to win tomorrow. I have the 400m and the 4 x 400m. I’m just shooting for a PR.”
Latavia Thomas
“ The half mile leg felt tiring, but it felt good to win. I didn’t run 100%, but I guess it was good. We just wanted to come out and win. After running this 800m, I won’t run the open 800m tomorrow.”
4xMile Relay
Winner: Ventura 20:46.50 (3rd leg 5:17, 4th leg 5:09)
Runner-up: College Park 20:50.64 - (5:07,5:21, 4:56, 5:25).
3rd place : Reno 21:03.72 - 5:07, 5:16, 5:26, 5:13
Reno’s Collier Lawrence, a Foot Locker National finalist led College Park with a 72 opening lap. Another set of laps of 78(2:30), 79, 3:49, and 79(5:07) kept her in a tie for the lead with College Park. Canyon was third in 5:11. College Park’s and Reno’s second legs exchanged leads for the next two laps, 75(6:22) and 80(7:42) before Ventura took over the final two laps, 7:46, 9:02(76), and 10:20(78) to put them into the lead. Reno came in 3 seconds behind at 10:23(5:16) with Sultana next at 10:27. College Park, 10:28(5:21) drifted back to 4th.
Ventura maintained their lead for the first lap, 72(11:32) but College Park’s third leg close the gap quickly to draw even at the 800m mark of the third leg, 12:51(CP, 2:23, Ventura, 2:31). Reno was now in 3rd, 12:59(2:36) and battling Sultana, 13:00(2:33). College Park’s 3rd leg continued to press onward with a 77(14:08) and a 76(15:24, 4:56) to give them a huge 13 second lead over Ventura( 15:37, 5:17), Reno( 15:49, 5:26), and Sultana( 15:50,5:23). Sultana cut that margin by 4 seconds over the next 800m; College Park, 17:58 and Ventura, 18:07. Reno’s Marie (Mel) Lawrence came through in 18:20(2:31) with
Sultana just behind in 18:24(2:34).
Ventura continued to cut the margin closing to within 1 second on the final lap, College Park 19:24, Ventura’s 19:25. In the end, College Park had no response as Ventura pulled away to win in 20:46(5:09). College Park was next in 20:49(5:25). Reno finished 3rd in 21:02( 5:13).
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