Boys Highlights
The distance races stole the spotlight Saturday at Memorial Stadium, and you can already see the state meet strategies unfolding. Evert Silva (Fresno) cruised to a 7th-place finish in the 1600, choosing to focus on the 3200. In that race, he battled with Miguel Villar (Madera South) and Marcus Mota (Stockdale) for all 8 laps before coming out victorious, his time of 9:11.36 beating Villar by just under a second. All three advance, and all three should be competitive at the state meet. Moises Medrano (Highland Bakersfield) posted a season-best and CA #2 time of 1:51.47 in the 800, fending off a strong challenge from Andrew Scherf (Clovis), now CA #4. In fact, it looks like the Central Section has a solid chance to put three 800 runners in points at the state meet, with Peter Handy (Bakersfield) sitting at CA #7 right now.
Can somebody tell me where Kazmier Allen (Tulare Union) came from? He's run 4 races this season, starting with a 10.88 and improving to a CA #6 10.56 this past weekend! Dude also jumps over 22 feet in the long jump, although he did not advance in that event. Kazmier is a junior, so we really hope to see more than 4 races from him next year! We predicted the "Battle of the Wilsons" would have a mixed outcome, and we were right: Jacob Wilson (Buchanan) won the shot put with a mark of 64' 6.5, while Jonah Wilson (Clovis) threw 199' 11" to win the discus.