12th Annual Mt. Pleasant Relays
@ Los Gatos HS
Overcast, 55 degrees, head wind in all events.
From Daniel Cruz
The 12th Annual Mt. Pleasant Relays provided a splendid show for track fans this past weekend at Los Gatos High School. The meet held under cloudy skies and blustery conditions (no aiding wind here as the up-coming storm was from the South) which did not help vaulters and jumpers, worked wonders for the discus as Sean Shields of Arroyo Grande popped 180�8 ��. He started the meet with another state leading throw of 60�5�� while his teammate, John Howard also had a very good toss of 53�5 ��.� Arroyo Grande came away the Boys team champion, just nipping James Logan by two points, 104-102.� The Lady Colts however outdistanced Arroyo Grande on the women�s side 93 to 81 with Logan winning the combined title 195-185.
A great battle was expected in the dashes and jumps as a very solid St. Mary�s of Berkeley squad was also in town.� After being bested by St. Mary�s in the 4 x 100 earlier in the day, 42.1 to 42.8, the Colts came back to hold off SM�s in the 4 x 220 as Martin Boston (Grandson to Olympic great Ralph Boston) ran a great anchor leg for the win with a fine 1:31.2 (yards). St.Mary�s ran the same time.� Los Gatos came away with wins in the 4 x 800 and 4 x mile with fine early season times of 8:18.9 and 18:50.9.� Matt Bates anchored for the Wildcats with a 4:29 split in the 4 x mile.� St. Mary�s came away with wins in both hurdle relays and the TJ relay but Bellarmine swiped the LJ relay with an event leading jump by Ethan Clark (Bells) 21�9� and help from teammate Chaka Cofie (21�1��).� Asokah Mohammed tripled 46�10� and teammate Salomon Welch bounded 45�6��, while junior Martin Boston improved his seasonal best with a 45�0� jump. St. Mary�s came away with a new meet record in the TJ relay (179�8�). Arroyo Grande came away with wins in the Shot, Discus, Vault, High jump and 4 x 2 mile relays as Russ Martin (Los Gatos) soloed 9:37.0 for 2 miles to capture first place in the 4 x 2-mile relay.� Shields besting the field in both the shot and discus, Paul Lim (Riordan) having the best vault of the day (13�6�) Ryan Zimmerman of AG bested all High Jumpers with a fine 6�6�.
On the Girls side track host Los Gatos won the 4 x 800 and 4 x mile as expected, while Logan grabbed the 4 x 100, 4 x 200, 4 x 400, 300 shuttle�s (new meet record, 3:11.6), 2nd in the 4 x 880, vault, TJ and Shot and 3rd in the 4 x 2-mile relay. Carondelet captured the 4 x 2-mile followed closely by St. Ignatius.� SI also won the High Jump relay as three Wildcats cleared 5�4 (Grimaldi, Keane, and Grimes).� Arroyo Grande grabbed wins in the Shot, Discus and vault, setting a meet record in the latter event with an aggregate mark of 34�6�. AG totaled 143�3�� in the shot and 366�8�� in the discus with Rachel Viau (AG) clearing 11�6� in the vault, Kamaiya Warren (SM) having the best toss in the discus with an excellent 150�2� throw.� Laveitra Sutton (JL) won the TJ with a 36�10�� and Danielle Stokes of St. Mary�s leaped 17�4��.
James Logan�s weight man relay smoked a 45.9 to set a new meet record and Arroyo Grande�s women�s weight relay ran 60.1.