California Distance Carnival
La Mirada HS - Saturday, March 17th, 2007

By Doug Speck

A good group gathered at La Mirada HS for the California Distance Carnival hosted by the two schools Saturday, March 17th. With a focus on the 800 meters on up during the morning and afternoon of action on the fine La Mirada HS facility, there were some good performances during the early season affair.

Some early morning 3200’s provided the top quality marks from the contest, as solid groups of Girls and Boys went in search of times to secure entry into some of the better Invitational meets down the road this spring.

 
photos by Doug Speck
Felix, Urias (left) and Martinez (rt) roll along - Urias Challenges with 500 meters to go

The Girls 3200 had a trio of Stephanie Felix (La Mirada), a 10:41.52 eight lap star from last spring, Sandrine Urias (La Serna, Whittier), an upstart frosh swim star who had taken to running in fine style, placing eighth in the State Meet Division II this past fall during cross-country despite having to take a good chunk of time off to rest sore shins, and Alma Martinez (Whittier), an 11:10.47 star from the 2006 spring season. Felix did most of the pace-work during the 3200, with the others close, and it was Urias who started the real racing, actually moving past Felix with a bit more than one lap to go before the La Mirada star covered that move. With part of the field being lapped, it was down the homestretch that the Girls’ event would be decided, with a determined Martinez challenging Felix on the outside in lane two and Stephanie holding on to the pole. Unfortunately Felix was required to dodge a lapped runner, and Martinez edged ahead by the slightest of margins half-way down the homestretch, and emerged the winner 11:14.94 to 11:15.14. Urias was third in a fine 11:23.15, a brilliant first serious effort for the latter as a high-schooler at the eight lap distance. She did indicate after the race that her shins had felt much better lately. Not sure how great a swimmer Urias is, but she has some real potential as a runner here!

 
photos by Doug Speck
Homestretch Battle G3200 - Morikawa leads Boys 3200 pack

The Boys 3200 featured Kent Morikawa (Torrance), with the UCLA-bound senior towing a good field through the laps at just over a seventy second average. Morikawa pulled away eventually to a five second win over Luis Dorantes of Whitter 9:39.57-9:44.63, with Corona’s Raul Arcos third at 9:45.71.

Ralph Casas photo
Justine Diaz

Justine Diaz, another La Serna star, and seventh in last year’s SS State qualifying competition over 800 meters at 2:15.05, was an easy winner here over the two lap distance, recording a good 2:22.25 win. With the development of one more runner La Serna can have one of the better distance medley relay groups in the Section this spring.

Luke Galvan of Whittier was the Boys 800 winner a 2:02.19, with that school and Norwalk seeming to show enough depth in the distances to put together some nice distance relays during the spring relay season.

As you can see from the pictures in Ralph Casas’s fine album the sun did come out and it was a great day for distance running, with this “specialty” affair certain to grow in participation in coming seasons. With attempts to run a ton of folks through meets early in the season, these type of meets make a great deal of sense, as with the sprints, hurdles, and sprint relays added the bus would leave mighty early, and would get home mighty late after dark. Kind of nice to focus on one area, meet some competition after often times sparse numbers in some dual settings, and work on some early season personal bests.

Congrats to the meet management for what seemed like a very well run competition on a nice facility.

   
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California Distance Carnival
La Mirada HS - Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Event 1 Girls 3200 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Mcintyre, Lauren	9	La Mirada	12:26.73
2	Perez, Virginia	10	Downey	12:28.88
3	Cooperstein, Christine	9	Whittier	12:55.20
4	Gutierrez, Amber	9	La Serna	13:53.96
5	Waffle, Shannon		El Dorado	14:03.24
6	Medina, Roxanne	10	La Serna	14:36.55
7	Wong, Valerie	10	La Mirada	15:18.38
8	Mac Donough, Berlyn	9	La Serna	15:34.84

Event 2 Boys 3200 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	To, Thien-nam	10	Cerritos	10:53.43
2	Mena, Anthony	10	La Serna	10:55.38
3	Okiishi, Matthew	9	La Serna	10:57.11
4	Richardson, Aaron	10	Torrance	10:57.75
5	Green, Jim	9	Torrance	10:58.16
6	Maynard, Nikolai	10	Whittier	11:01.98
7	Moreno, Hector	10	Downey	11:02.57
8	Garza, Andrew	10	La Mirada	11:11.31
9	Everett, Jonathan	9	Torrance	11:29.85
10	Zambrano, Josh	10	Downey	11:36.65
11	Seng, Kevin	9	El Dorado	12:04.47
12	Sully, Matt	10	El Dorado	12:35.17
13	Marquez, Rich	9	La Mirada	12:40.44

Event 3 Girls 3200 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Martinez, Alma Janet	12	Whittier	11:14.94
2	Felix, Stephanie	11	La Mirada	11:15.14
3	Urias, Sandrine	9	La Serna	11:23.15
4	Perez, Laura	10	California High	12:09.38
5	Altamirano, Naomi	11	Downey	12:22.95
6	Luevano, Melanie	10	La Serna	12:23.13
7	Schell, Jessica	11	Torrance	12:27.04
8	Navarez, Jessica	11	Downey	12:55.49
9	Kuan, Stephanie	11	Cerritos	13:10.00
10	Yang, Jean		Downey	13:14.18
11	Emami, Mitra	12	La Serna	13:45.36
12	Galarze, Raylene	12	La Serna	14:25.99
13	Matsumoto, Jodi	11	Cerritos	14:26.16

Event 4 Boys 3200 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Morikawa, Kent	12	Torrance	9:39.57
2	Dorantes, Luis	11	Whittier	9:44.63
3	Arcos, Raul	11	Corona High Scho	9:45.71
4	Magana, Eric	12	La Serna	9:49.49
5	Vega, Hector	12	Norwalk	10:10.31
6	Torres, Jorge	12	Downey	10:12.24
7	Cano, Alfonso	11	Whittier	10:22.58
8	Bueno, Andrew	12	La Mirada	10:22.59
9	Dorantes, Miguel	11	Whittier	10:22.95
10	Fuerte, Garrett	12	Downey	10:23.84
11	Williams, David	12	La Serna	10:25.50
12	Soon, Jemerald	11	Cerritos	10:39.84
13	Rodriquez, Raul	11	Torrance	10:44.60
14	Bogda, Kyle	11	El Dorado	10:54.78
15	Garcia, Robert	12	Whittier	10:55.66
16	Matsuoka, Kevin	12	Torrance	10:56.53
17	Park, Ryan	12	Whittier	11:02.19
18	Lee, Sung-ling	12	Cerritos	11:05.66
19	Loomis, Nathaniel	9	Whittier	11:30.58
20	Talamantes, Nick	11	El Dorado	11:43.41

Event 5 Girls 4x800 Meter Relay Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Whittier A	10:52.22
2	Torrance A	10:52.54
3	El Dorado A	11:30.88
4	Torrance B	11:34.36
5	La Serna A	11:51.48
6	Estancia A	11:57.75
7	Torrance C	11:58.80
8	Torrance D	14:00.44

Event 6 Boys 4x800 Meter Relay Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Torrance 'a'	8:59.83
2	Estancia 'a'	9:17.18
3	La Serna 'a'	9:20.55
4	Cerritos 'a'	9:32.64
5	Torrance 'b'	9:34.82
6	Estancia 'b'	9:48.12
7	Cerritos 'b'	10:10.08

Event 7 Girls 4x800 Meter Relay Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	El Dorado 'a'	10:41.67
2	Estancia 'a'	11:16.99

Event 8 Boys 4x800 Meter Relay Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	La Serna 'a'	8:49.27
2	Estancia 'a'	8:57.13
3	Estancia 'b'	9:16.21
4	La Mirada 'a'	9:20.06
5	Cerritos 'a'	9:37.17
6	Torrance 'a'	10:55.75

Event 9 Girls 1600 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Espinoza, Chrishy	10	California High	5:48.62
2	Cooperstein, Marilyn	10	Whittier	5:55.46
3	Vargas, Carolina	9	Downey	5:58.79
4	Schell, Rachel	10	Torrance	5:59.92
5	Chern, Melody	10	Cerritos	6:00.33
6	Zeluf, Susan	10	Torrance	6:10.55
7	Perez, Virginia	10	Downey	6:12.77
8	Reyna, Natalie	9	Whittier	6:15.58
9	Tai, Katherine	10	Cerritos	6:19.74
10	Gonzales, Rachelle		Torrance	6:22.47
11	Lee, Karen	9	Cerritos	6:23.98
12	Mendoza, Alesandra	9	California High	6:24.09
13	Waffle, Shannon		El Dorado	6:30.72
14	Nguyen, Tiffany	9	Cerritos	6:34.08
15	James, Gabriella	9	La Mirada	6:38.43
16	Gutierrez, Desirae	10	California High	6:43.02
17	Lee, Natasha	9	Cerritos	6:50.20
18	Sinnig, Maggie	9	California High	7:10.84
19	Eckhart, Lauren	10	Whittier	7:14.29
20	Garwood, Niki	9	California High	7:23.20
21	Rubalcava, Giselle	9	California High	7:39.42
22	Espinoza, Erica	10	Whittier	7:42.69

Event 10 Boys 1600 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Reyna, Jean	10	Whittier	4:53.31
2	Guerrero, Kris	10	Whittier	5:03.05
3	Perez, Ernesto	10	Downey	5:03.91
3	Bartellozi, Jon		Torrance	5:03.91
5	To, Thien-nam	10	Cerritos	5:04.31
6	Dematteo, Kyle	9	El Dorado	5:09.97
7	Gruber, Seth	9	Whittier	5:13.88
8	Garza, Andrew	10	La Mirada	5:19.74
9	Chavez, Christian	9	Whittier	5:20.27
10	Seng, Kevin	9	El Dorado	5:24.77
11	Vilaseca, Alex	10	Cerritos	5:30.98
12	Maynard, Nikolai	10	Whittier	5:31.98
13	Fruth, Nick		Torrance	5:42.92
14	Galvan, Dylan	9	La Serna	5:43.23
15	Vi, Kent	9	Cerritos	5:44.40
16	Briseno, Joseph	9	Whittier	5:47.74
17	Kung, Jason	9	Cerritos	6:00.57
18	Fries, Danny		Torrance	6:01.37
19	Rafael, Uriel	9	Salesian	6:01.79
20	Bribiesca, Adam	9	Salesian	6:07.59
21	Almazan, Steve	10	Salesian	6:12.90
22	Sully, Matt	10	El Dorado	6:15.76
23	Raghavan, Rohan	9	Cerritos	6:27.13
24	Marquez, Rich	9	La Mirada	6:28.32

Event 11 Girls 1600 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Felix, Stephanie	11	La Mirada	5:20.86
2	Amaya, Celia	12	Whittier	5:39.69
3	Jeon, Sarah	11	La Mirada	5:49.96
4	Navarez, Jessica	11	Downey	6:00.72
5	Martinez, Adriana	11	Downey	6:06.36
6	Vazquez, Jovanna	11	Downey	6:06.96
7	Martinez, Ofilia	11	Downey	6:08.19
8	Garay, Evelin	11	Downey	6:20.35
9	Kim, Caroline	11	Cerritos	6:22.36
10	Chien, Connie	12	Cerritos	6:24.29
11	Matsumoto, Jodi	11	Cerritos	6:53.25
12	Guerrero, Aidan	11	Whittier	6:54.92
13	Schell, Jessica	11	Torrance	6:58.04
14	Hirai, Stephanie	11	Torrance	7:19.72

Event 12 Boys 1600 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Vega, Hector	12	Norwalk	4:47.02
2	Picado, Wilgen		Norwalk	4:53.53
3	Rower, David		Norwalk	4:54.87
4	Torres, Chris	12	Whittier	4:55.18
5	Chatta, Sachin		Norwalk	4:55.92
6	Bueno, Andrew	12	La Mirada	4:55.94
7	Cano, Alfonso	11	Whittier	4:55.98
8	Horng, Wesley	11	Cerritos	4:57.64
9	Soon, Jemerald	11	Cerritos	4:58.72
10	Ly, Dennis	11	La Mirada	4:59.38
11	Palmer, Michael	10	La Mirada	5:06.29
12	Bogda, Kyle	11	El Dorado	5:06.32
13	Zimmermann, Kyle	12	El Dorado	5:08.94
14	Lee, Sung-ling	12	Cerritos	5:09.10
15	Garcia, Robert	12	Whittier	5:09.81
16	Son, Eric	12	Torrance	5:12.77
17	Leshana, Jon	12	El Dorado	5:15.78
18	Park, Ryan	12	Whittier	5:16.53
19	Muro, Eddie	11	California High	5:16.95
20	Talamantes, Nick	11	El Dorado	5:23.93
21	Durkin, Mitchell	11	El Dorado	5:30.31
22	Zamora, Frank	11	Salesian	5:42.03
23	Bhatt, Roopak	11	Cerritos	5:50.32
24	Ojeda, Andrew	11	California High	5:54.56

Event 13 Girls Distance Medley Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Torrance 'a'	14:42.17
2	Torrance 'b'	15:07.33
3	Torrance 'c'	15:19.27
4	La Mirada 'a'	15:23.39
5	La Serna 'a'	15:33.68
6	Cerritos 'a'	15:42.78
7	Estancia 'a'	17:41.63

Event 14 Boys Distance Medley Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Estancia 'a'	11:44.02
2	Torrance 'a'	11:45.11
3	Estancia 'c'	12:02.92
4	Cerritos 'a'	12:29.63
5	Torrance 'c'	12:37.71
6	Estancia 'b'	12:47.63

Event 15 Girls Distance Medley Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	La Mirada 'a'	13:58.26
2	Estancia 'a'	14:44.55
3	Cerritos 'a'	15:47.47

Event 16 Boys Distance Medley Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Torrance 'a'	10:57.64
2	Torrance 'b'	11:29.37
3	La Mirada 'a'	11:53.26
4	La Serna 'a'	11:54.39
5	Cerritos 'a'	12:24.71
6	Estancia 'a'	12:24.93

Event 17 Girls 800 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Cortes, Tatiana	10	La Mirada	2:40.30
2	Morales, Rose	10	Whittier	2:42.66
3	Vargas, Carolina	9	Downey	2:43.65
4	Garrido, Vanessa	9	Whittier	2:43.75
5	Montenegro, Jackie	10	Downey	2:45.37
6	Manzanarez, Karla	9	Downey	2:48.99
7	Flores, Jessica	10	California High	2:49.90
8	Peralta, Alejandra	9	Estancia	2:52.67
9	Winn, Caitlin	10	La Mirada	2:53.89
10	Chavez, Jasmine	10	California High	2:54.12
11	Reyna, Natalie	9	Whittier	2:55.15
12	Lopez, Kristan	10	La Serna	2:57.18
13	Zwirn, Gabriella	10	Cerritos	2:58.67
14	Hernandez, Candy	9	Estancia	3:02.48
15	Nguyen, Tiffany	9	Cerritos	3:05.12
16	Morales, Blanca	10	Estancia	3:06.31
17	Kim, Kristine	10	Cerritos	3:12.36
18	Patel, Shebani	9	Cerritos	3:13.26
19	Madrigal, Jessica	10	California High	3:14.12
20	Leon, Jenny	10	Estancia	3:14.55
21	Rios, Aundraya	9	Whittier	3:15.54
22	Eckhart, Lauren	10	Whittier	3:17.66
23	Gandhi, Rujuta	10	Cerritos	3:18.80
24	Carrasco, Rebecca	9	California High	3:19.94
25	Chung, Yensil	9	Torrance	3:19.99
26	Rios, Alyssa	9	Whittier	3:22.65
27	Shah, Sonam	10	Cerritos	3:23.75
28	Rivas, Valerie	9	California High	3:25.24
29	Chin, Ashley	10	Cerritos	3:26.33
30	Guerrero, Maria	10	Whittier	3:27.17
31	Toledo, Stephanie	10	California High	3:28.88
32	Lopez, Vanessa		California High	3:29.52
33	Roman, Regina	9	Cerritos	3:30.76
34	Rodriguez, Desiree	9	California High	3:39.18
35	Jauregui, Jocelyn	10	Whittier	3:40.09
36	Espinoza, Erica	10	Whittier	3:41.76
37	Pfau, Mackenzie	9	Torrance	3:56.03

Event 18 Boys 800 Meter Run Frosh/Soph

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Van Boxtel, Bryce	10	Shandon High	2:09.32
2	Reyna, Jean	10	Whittier	2:11.03
3	Montalvo, Aaron	10	California High	2:14.26
4	Ellis, Michael	9	California High	2:16.28
5	Dematteo, Kyle	9	El Dorado	2:21.54
6	Vargas, Damien	9	California High	2:24.09
7	Guerrero, Kris	10	Whittier	2:24.67
8	Chen, Victor	9	Cerritos	2:24.98
9	Vilaseca, Alex	10	Cerritos	2:27.10
10	Joo, Ryan	9	Cerritos	2:27.38
11	Gruber, Seth	9	Whittier	2:29.00
12	Chayasriwong, Andrew	9	Cerritos	2:29.78
13	Chavez, Christian	9	Whittier	2:29.79
14	Zavala, Mario	9	California High	2:33.14
15	Honda, Taylor	10	Torrance	2:33.32
16	Vi, Kent	9	Cerritos	2:34.27
17	Wu, Nicholas	10	Cerritos	2:39.13
18	Briseno, Joseph	9	Whittier	2:39.27
19	Kung, Jason	9	Cerritos	2:40.82
20	Fruth, Nickolas	9	Torrance	2:42.70
21	Bribiesca, Adam	9	Salesian	2:44.75
22	Poblete, Ryan	9	Cerritos	2:47.54
23	Fries, Daniel	9	Torrance	2:47.56
24	Rafael, Uriel	9	Salesian	2:50.60
25	Almazan, Steve	10	Salesian	2:55.79
26	Raghavan, Rohan	9	Cerritos	2:59.09
27	Oden, Glen	11	Torrance	3:02.88

Event 19 Girls 800 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Diaz, Justine	12	La Serna	2:22.25
2	Martinez, Alma Janet	12	Whittier	2:28.56
3	Schell, Jessica	11	Torrance	2:32.00
4	Amaya, Celia	12	Whittier	2:35.97
5	Sierra, Camille	11	La Serna	2:40.60
6	Gonzalez, Karina	11	La Mirada	2:41.26
7	Rangal, Amie	11	Downey	2:44.17
8	Drapeza, Jamy	11	Cerritos	2:46.39
9	Teshiba, Lauren	12	Torrance	2:50.68
10	Liu, Phoebe	12	Cerritos	2:51.78
11	Garag, Evyln		Downey	2:53.94
12	Lim, Phoebe	11	Cerritos	2:55.74
13	Shimamoto, Karly	11	Cerritos	2:56.91
14	Watson, Jillian	11	Cerritos	3:03.12
15	Lau, Joyce	11	Cerritos	3:05.75
16	Wang, Joyce	11	Cerritos	3:06.83
17	Matsukawa, Christie	12	Torrance	3:13.00

Event 20 Boys 800 Meter Run Varsity

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Galvan, Luke	12	Whittier	2:02.19
2	Vega, Hector	12	Norwalk	2:03.07
3	Cruz, Jose	11	Torrance	2:03.54
4	Mora, Paul	10	Whittier	2:03.88
5	Herrera, Omar	11	Downey	2:06.60
6	Hidalgo, David		St. Francis	2:06.78
7	Palmer, Michael	10	La Mirada	2:15.69
8	Welke, Donald	11	Cerritos	2:15.92
9	Lee, Sung-ling	12	Cerritos	2:17.40
10	Butt, Ryan	12	Torrance	2:17.51
11	Brown, Aaron	12	Torrance	2:17.73
12	Torres, Chris	12	Whittier	2:19.59
13	Son, Eric	12	Torrance	2:20.16
14	Gillaspy, Mark	11	La Mirada	2:21.08
15	Zimmermann, Kyle	12	El Dorado	2:21.62
16	Matsuoka, Kevin	12	Torrance	2:21.63
17	Hays, Taylor	12	California High	2:23.27
18	Leshana, Jon	12	El Dorado	2:23.36
19	Rodriquez, Raul	11	Torrance	2:23.44
20	Zamora, Frank	11	Salesian	2:24.07
21	Durkin, Mitchell	11	El Dorado	2:30.79
22	Romero, Jonathan	9	Torrance	2:33.96
23	Bhatt, Roopak	11	Cerritos	2:43.40
24	Ortega, Noah		Torrance	2:50.28
25	Lynch, Pat		Torrance	2:59.62

Event 21 Girls 4x1600 Meter Relay Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	El Dorado 'a'	26:20.10
2	La Serna 'a'	28:02.04

Event 22 Boys 4x1600 Meter Relay Frosh/Soph

#	School	Finals	Points
1	La Serna 'a'	21:19.85
2	St. Francis 'a'	21:23.80

Event 23 Girls 4x1600 Meter Relay Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	La Serna 'a'	23:04.96
2	El Dorado 'a'	23:29.49
3	Cerritos 'a'	28:01.25

Event 24 Boys 4x1600 Meter Relay Varsity

#	School	Finals	Points
1	Whittier 'a'	19:16.50
2	St. Francis 'a'	19:24.65
3	La Serna 'a'	19:40.41
4	Estancia 'a'	19:44.02

Event 25 Girls 5000 Meter Run Open

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Chern, Melody	10	Cerritos	22:22.02

Event 26 Boys 5000 Meter Run Open

#	Name	Year	School	Finals	Points
1	Soon, Jemerald	11	Cerritos	17:35.62
2	Ellis, Michael	9	California High	18:18.20
3	Garcia, Edwin	12	Salesian	18:18.41
4	Cornejo, Paul	11	Salesian	18:47.83
5	Welke, Donald	11	Cerritos	19:08.25
6	Rafael, Ivan	11	Salesian	19:24.08
7	Hays, Taylor	12	California High	20:15.05
8	Verdin, Daniel	10	Salesian	20:48.50
9	Horng, Wesley	11	Cerritos	22:12.56
10	Lee, Sung-ling	12	Cerritos	22:13.19