It didn’t take lengthy for the primary report to fall Saturday night on the 57th annual Arcadia Invitational monitor and discipline meet at Arcadia Excessive.
Within the very first occasion, Servite’s boys 4×100 relay crew burned up the monitor in 40 seconds flat, a brand new state and meet report and the quickest prep time this season.
Getting the Friars’ foursome off to a quick begin was Jorden Wells, who handed the baton to Benjamin Harris across the first flip and watched because the Lengthy Seashore Poly switch took the lead on the backstretch and handed off to Jaelen Hunter, who maintained his crew’s margin earlier than passing to Robert Gardner, who widened the margin on the anchor leg. All 4 of them are underclassmen and so they beat runner-up Lengthy Seashore Poly by 32 hundredths of a second.
“We came in hot, having practiced real good and it paid off,” Gardner stated. “Once I get the baton I have to do my part.”
Harris believes the most effective is but to come back.
“We can line up with any team out there,” he stated. “We can go lower next week [at the Mt. SAC Relays] and beyond.”
Having received the 4×200 on Friday, Servite tried for the “trifecta” within the ultimate race of the evening Saturday and accomplished the sweep of the relays as Jorden Wells sprinted a 47.10 anchor leg to steer the all-freshman squad to first within the 4×400 in 3:12.33, the sixth-fastest time within the U.S. this season and the eighth-best all-time at Arcadia.
Hunter, the highest ninth-grader within the nation within the 400 meters, confirmed why by profitable the seeded race in 47.91.
Jack Stadlman of Temecula Valley received the 400 in 45.92 at Arcadia. Noah Smith of Lengthy Seashore Poly (left) completed second in 46.56.
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Jack Stadlman of Temecula Valley received the Invitational 400 in 45.92, staying No. 3 within the nation at that distance. Regardless of his success, Stadlman stated he prefers the 200.
“I’m not a fan of the 400, but I knew I had the fastest seed, I trusted in myself and finished the race,” stated Stadlman, who trailed early earlier than taking management to comfortably beat runner-up Noah Smith (46.56). “I wanted the meet record, but I told my coach I’d be satisfied with 45.”
Vista Murrieta’s Michael Norman set the meet report of 45.51 in 2016.
Stadlman, a former junior varsity basketball participant, ran the fourth-fastest time in the US (45.69) on March 1 in solely his second 400 ever and Smith, a junior, ran the eighth-fastest nationwide time this yr (46.55) on the Chandler Rotary Invitational in Arizona.
Wells clocked 10.47 to take second within the seeded 100-meter sprint and Harris went head-to-head with Mt. Miguel junior Brandon Arrington (final yr’s state 100 and 200 champion) within the Invitational warmth. Arrington received by one hundredth of a second in 10.32—the third-fastest ever at Arcadia. Harris’ 10.33 was adequate for fourth all-time at Arcadia and one hundredth of a second off the state report for a sophomore).
Arrington doubled again to win the 200 in 20.35, breaking Noah Lyles’ meet report of 20.48, set in 2016. Lyles, of T.C. Williams, Alexandria, Virginia, nonetheless holds the Arcadia 100 meter report of 10.17.
After ending second within the mile the earlier two years to Ventura’s Sadie Engelhardt, who opted to forego her final highschool season to compete in Open and professional races, senior Jane Hedengren of Timpview, Utah, made historical past of her personal by establishing a brand new nationwide two-mile report of 9:34.12. Interviewed one minute after, she took her gorgeous achievement in stride.
“I felt alright, but I wanted to go faster,” stated Hedengren, whose effort additionally broke the nationwide 3000 and 3200 data. “Thank you, Arcadia, for cheering me on.”
Loren Webster of Lengthy Seashore Wilson received the women’ lengthy soar at 19-10 at Arcadia.
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Maliyah Collins’ blazing anchor leg helped Rosary win the Invitational women 4×100 in 45.47, the sixth quickest time within the nation this yr and fourth quickest ever at Arcadia. Christina Grey anchored reigning Metropolis Part champion Carson’s 46.58 first-place effort within the previous seeded race.
The Invitational boys 3200 discipline included 5 sub-four minute milers. Owen Powell of Mercer Island, Washington received the eight-lapper in 8:39.86. Fifteen-year-old New Zealander Sam Ruthe, who ran a 3:58 mile final month, was third in 8:40.95
A highly-anticipated showdown came about within the Invitational women shot put, the place Aliso Niguel junior Jaslene Massey, who received the Orange County Championships in March with a throw of fifty toes, seven inches (No. 3 within the nation this yr) prevailed with a 48-09.50 effort. Senior Aja Johnson of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who received the 2023 state crown and was the runner-up final spring, completed second 48-01.00.
The roles had been reversed within the discus, the place Johnson (the 2024 state champion) took first place with a throw of 159-01 whereas Massey was second (157-03).
Lengthy Seashore Wilson’s Loren Webster received the Invitational women lengthy soar with a leap of 19 toes, 10 inches and Camren Smith of Quartz Hill received the Invitational boys triple soar at 49-06.00.
