Section Meets Today!

I will be at the CCS meet at Gilroy High School today and will tweet as many results as possible.  You can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/ccexpress.
The time schedule and the State At-Large Times are posted here:
http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/results/12-13/TF%20Meet%20Schedule%202013%20finals.pdf

The North Coast Section MOC Semifinals will take place today at Berkeley with the field events starting at 9:30am and the running events at 1pm.  The live WEBCAST of this meet can be found here:
http://www.livestream.com/ncschampionships
NCS Results:  http://home.comcast.net/~elliott.mike/Meet_Results/2013/NCS-MOC/

The Northern Section meet will take place today at West Valley High School with the field events starting at 4pm followed by the running events at 6pm.  All info for the meet can be found here:
http://www.cifns.org/Announcements/2012-2013/2013TrackChampionships.html

The Sac-Joaquin Section meet will take place today at Elk Grove High School.  The results for yesterday's Semis and today's Finals can be found at this link:
http://redcaptiming.com/2013/sjsmasters/

The San Francisco Section meet will take place tomorrow at Kezar Stadium.  You can check out the competitors for tomorrow's meet at this link:
http://cifsf.org/Information/Track-FinalsProgram2013.pdf

Newspaper articles leading up to Section finals

SHP's Robinson will run for state berth instead of walking for his diploma (CCS) NEW
SHC track standout Lampkin dedicates season to late grandparents (CCS)
Milpitas High runners face area's best at CCS Trials (CCS)
Top track and field standouts eye CCS titles (CCS)
A look at the 2013 CCS track and field finals (CCS) Includes CCS Records if you are curious.
Bishop O'Dowd senior Eugene Hamilton III focuses on 1,600 (NCS)
Berkeley High's Diribe Abdo advances to the North Coast Section Meet of Champions (NCS)
Northern Section track, field finals could be big day for area athletes (NS)
Northern Section track events set to be wars (NS)
Local track and field athletes gear up for Section Masters championship (SJS)
Local athletes try to star at Masters (SJS)
Vying for state berths nothing new for Vintage track Masters qualifiers (SJS)
State is stated goal (SJS)

Bishop O'Dowd senior Eugene Hamilton III focuses on 1,600

By Phil Jensen:
Bishop O'Dowd High's Eugene Hamilton III was seriously contemplating dropping one of his two events for the rest of the postseason after competing in the 800 meters last Saturday at the North Coast Section Bay Shore Area Track & Field Championships.

But the Arizona-bound senior wasn't totally sure which of his events he would drop. Hamilton had a state-leading time of 1 minute, 50.19 seconds, in the 800 at press time, according to PrepCalTrack.com, and he said at last Saturday's meet that it was likely that he would drop the 1,600 meters.
Hamilton had a change of heart.

"(Bishop O'Dowd distance coach Andrew Cheng) and I discussed it, and we sort of decided that it would be a nice change of pace to go after the 1,600," Hamilton said. "Ultimately, it was my decision.

To read the rest of this article, go to the following link:
http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_23303265/east-bay-high-school-notebook-bishop-odowd-senior

2013 Track Chats: Meet 4:05 Miler Ben Malone

http://usa.milesplit.com/articles/106636-2013-track-chats-meet-4-05-miler-ben-malone

CCS Track and Field Prediction Contest

Send in your predictions to albertjcaruana@gmail.com. Please include the top 3 finishers for all events (running and field/boys and girls) as well as your predictions for the team champions along with their scores. If there is a tie, the team champions and scores will break those ties.

Your entries should look like this
Name: John Aki Bua Uganda HS Athlete (or coach/parent etc.)

Listed in order of finish (1st through 3rd)
Girls' 400m. Relay-James Logan, Long Beach Poly, St. Francis
Boys' 400m. Relay-
Girls' 1600m.-Jordan Hasay, Mary Decker, Yunxia Qu
Boys' 1600m.-
Girls' 100m. Hurdles-
Boys' 110m. Hurdles-
etc.
Don't forget the field events.

Let me know if you have any questions or have any suggestions for the contest.

The winner will be announced on Sunday, May 26th.

Any questions, let me know.

Albert Caruana
www.crosscountryexpress.com

Here is a link that should help you:
http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2013/ccs_ent.htm

Newspaper articles as we head toward Section finals...

Locals do well at CCS track and field qualifying (SM Daily Journal)
Braves place at NCS Class A Championships (Napa Valley Register)

I will post more as I find them.  If you have links, send them my way to albertjcaruana@gmail.com.

NCS/ Meet of Champions Entries

http://running.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/8250/ncs-meet-of-champions-entries/ (One notable scratch is Eugene Hamilton III dropping 800 and focusing on 1600)

California State Track and Field Championships 2013 "At-Large" Standards

http://cifncs.org/sports/track/files/2013CIFAt-Large%20Standards.pdf

Which "at-large" marks do you think will come in to play this Friday at CCS, SJS and NS? Saturday at NCS and SF?

Here are the entries for the Northern Section meet on Saturday.
http://www.westvalleytrack.net/nsciftr_entries.htm

Central Section Track and Field Finals Video

CCS Entries and Lane Assignments

http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2013/ccs_ent.htm (distance races will have the fastest runners on the outside but their hip numbers will be according to their times with the lowest numbers first)

CCS Prediction Contest will be posted tomorrow.  How well can you predict the winners and state meet qualifiers?  

North Coast Section 400m.

Quite a group this past weekend at the 3 NCS Area meets.  When was the last time that the NCS had 8 guys under 49 seconds?  Ever?
Frank Kurtz Heritage 47.85
Herbie Polk Maria Carrillo 47.79
Alexis Robinson Eureka 48.01
Christian Carter San Leandro 48.04
Andrew Kozel Healdsburg 48.10
Kevin Griffin De La Salle 48.26
LaVelle Hamlin Deer Valley 48.42
Josh Slaton Amador Valley 48.98
By the way, the at-large mark for the 400 is 48.59.

Northern California Sections Newspaper coverage...

22 Santa Cruz County athletes qualify for finals (CCS)
Menlo's Maddy Price lowers season-best time in 400 (CCS)
Hurdlers prepare for a fast race at the CCS finals (CCS)
SLV's Cody Johnson one of 11 Santa Cruz County athletes to advance to finals (CCS)
Emery High relay sets bar high at NCS Class A track meet (NCS)
Disqualifications steal the show at NCS Tri-Valley track championships (NCS)
Panther girls dominate NCS Redwood Empire track championships (NCS)
Sonoma well represented in NCS track (NCS)
Tam's Rasmussen and Kiles lead MCAL contingent at North Coast Section Redwood Empire meet (NCS)
Two Vanden High School track standouts win section titles (SJS)
Five individuals, two relay teams advance to track and field Masters Meet (SJS)
Winning 4x100 relay team leads Wolves' six Masters Meet qualifiers (SJS)
Rodriguez’s Houston, Reed capture SJS Division I 400 crowns (SJS)
Inderkum Senior Shows Dedication To Teammates (SJS)
Tokay leaper defends titles (SJS)
Led by Penick, Chico High wins section track and field title (NS)

Any other links?  Send them my way (albertjcaruana@gmail.com) and I will add them to the list.

NCS Meet results as posted in Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/sports/ci_23276368/east-bay-high-school-sports-scoreboard-saturday-may (even Bayshore!)

Also from Contra Costa Times:
Disqualifications steal the show at NCS Tri-Valley track championships

CCS Semi-finals Results

CCS Semi-finals Results (Gilroy HS)

NCS Class A Meet Results

http://running.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/8141/north-coast-section-1a-track/

Bayshore Results?  Anyone?  CCS results will be posted as soon as I get them.

NCS Tri-Valley Results

http://home.comcast.net/~elliott.mike/Meet_Results/2013/NCS-TV/

NCS Redwood Empire Results

http://ezmeets.com/2013RedwoodArea/RedwoodResults.html

CCS Live Track and Field results

You can find them on my twitter account at www.twitter.com/CCExpress

I will post as many of the results as I can.

Healdsburg track excels by following the leader

HEALDSBURG -- They flocked to Maria Barragan, her track teammates did, attracted to her strength sheathed in humility. They knew of her pain, of her family situation, of so many excuses she could have made but didn’t. Barragan would scream from the treatment on the scar tissue in her lower legs, the treatment that happened three times a week for the last four months. Yet, the girls lean forward to hear her soft voice. Sweet as she is, Maria Barragan ain’t no cupcake.

“I want to be Maria,” said middle distance runner Bianca Nicastro.

The Healdsburg girls won the school’s first SCL track and field championship in 32 years last Saturday. They won 10 of 14 events. This year they established school records in nine events. One would think, armed with that information, this story is about winning. It isn’t. It’s about inspiration, the kind that comes, not from words, but from actions.

To read the rest of this article, go to the following link:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519537/1062/SPORTS0905?p=1&tc=pg

Ho hum...Mary Cain 4:04.62 1500m.

http://www.royalresults.com/liveresults/130517F005.htm Watch more videos on Flotrack