Competing in the identical stadium he trains at on daily basis, Antrell Harris sought to defend his dwelling turf Thursday on the Metropolis Part Monitor and Area Championships.
And did he ever.
The Birmingham senior received the boys’ 100 meters and went on to win the 200 meters about 90 minutes later. Harris received the 100 in 10.92 seconds and took the lead on the backstretch to win the 200 in 21.66, holding off Granada Hills’ Justin Hart by 9 hundredths of a second.
“I especially wanted to win the 200 because it’s my best race and I had to prove it,” mentioned Harris, who ran his private greatest in that occasion (21.32) on the Simi Valley Invitational. “My goal for state is to make the second day.”
The boys’ 400 meters, one of the vital anticipated races of the meet, proved to be one of many closest. Hart took the lead across the ultimate flip and held off a late kick by Venice’s Nathan Santa Cruz to prevail by three hundredths of a second in 47.45.
“I had to keep pumping my arms and hold my form the last 50 meters,” Hart mentioned. “I knew it would be a tough race. My goals for state would be 46.6 in the 400 and 21.10 or lower for the 200.”
Carson sprinter Christina Grey repeated as champion within the 100 and 200 meters.
Carson’s Christina Grey, middle, takes the lead within the 200-meter sprint on the Metropolis Part Monitor and Area Championships at Birmingham Excessive Faculty on Thursday.
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“I was happy how I ran in both races,” the junior mentioned after she completed in 12.07 within the 100 and 24.62 within the 200 whereas additionally operating anchor on the Colts’ first-place 4×100 relay workforce. “Negative wind stopped me from getting PRs, especially in the 200 because it’s longer. I like the state meet and I’ve PR’d up there the last two years so hopefully I can do it again.”
GALA senior DeAuna Louis additionally repeated as champion in each the 100 hurdles (14.87) and 300 hurdles (46.12) after posting the quickest occasions in preliminaries.
“I’m definitely faster this year … my PR is 14.46 and I was going for the City record in the 100, but came up short,” mentioned Louis, who’s headed to Hampton College in Virginia for lecturers however plans to stroll on in observe. “I was seventh in the 300 and 10th in the 100 at state last spring. My goal is to make the finals in both.”
Granada Hills’ Savanah Williams received the ladies’ 400 in 57.22 and North Hollywood’s Ananya Balaraman received the 1,600 meters in 5 minutes 3.75 seconds and later took the lead within the final 40 meters to win the 800 in 2:16.90.
Santee’s Angeles Feliciano received the ladies’ 3,200 in 11:25.75 and Charles Simon received the boys’ 3,200 in 9:38.77. Carson took the 4×400 ladies’ race in 4:02.77 and Palisades (3:23.98) barely edged Granada Hills (3:24.15) within the boys’ race.
Venice’s Lawrence Kensinger wins the shotput with a throw of 55 toes on Thursday.
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Lawrence Kensinger received the shotput with a throw of 55 toes on his second try. He has excessive hopes for the state meet in Clovis.
“I quit football to concentrate on shot,” he mentioned. “I love this sport. It’s you versus you. If you make a mistake it’s on you; when you win that’s on you too.”
Kensinger was on the soccer workforce in ninth and tenth grades, taking part in defensive finish as a freshman and defensive sort out as a sophomore.
“My goal at state is to make the second day,” added Kensinger, whose greatest throw was 55-9 at Metropolis prelims final yr. “Sixty feet for my junior year would be a dream. That’s when you know you’re with the top dogs.”
Marshall’s Oleana Taalman Koch clears the bar at 5 toes 2 inches to win the ladies’ excessive leap.
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Birmingham’s Mandell Anthony received the boys’ lengthy leap with a leap of 21 toes 9¾ inches and Marshall’s Oleana Taalman Koch cleared 5-2 to win the ladies’ excessive leap.
Granada Hills swept the workforce titles, the ladies ending Carson’s document streak of 9 straight.
Longtime race starter Saul Pacheco was honored for working his forty third Metropolis finals meet. A 1956 graduate of Banning, the place he was a half-miler, and a 1961 UCLA graduate, he served as a paratrooper within the 82nd Airborne Division from 1962 to 1965 and was the observe and area and offensive line coach at Carson for 25 years.
Birmingham’s Mandell Anthony wins the excessive leap on Thursday.
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