Riverbank's Fernandez blisters distance field at section championships

Runner sets top 3,200 mark this season

By WILL DeBOARD
wdeboard@modbee.com

SACRAMENTO -- German Fernandez wanted to use the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at Friday's Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Track and Field Championships as a test.

The Riverbank High senior was hoping to compete well in both events, so that he'd be able to race them both again at next week's CIF State Meet.

He more than passed. He aced the course at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento.

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•Riverbank's Fernandez blisters distance field at section championships

NCS Meet of Champions Coverage

•Livermore's George scores rare repeat NCS distance double

•NCS Track: St. Elizabeth's Purvis sisters prime for state spectacular

•Five H-DNC athlets head to state track meet

•Riggins: Fastest in North Coast (100m. winner)

•Taylor Duncan and Rebecca Cink heading to state track & field finals (Del Norte HS athletes)

•Prep track: Redwood duo qualify for state

•Runner picks up the pace (old article about Wyatt Landrum, Liberty winner of the 3200m. at MOC)

More to come as I find them.

NCS Results link

•NCS Meet of Champions Results
•Team Results

So those of you that were at the meet, what was the best race?

Let me throw out three races...

Boys' 1600m., boys' 200m., boys' 3200m... any others?

Section Coverage

Video coverage of all NCS races can be found at the following link:•NCS Meet of Champions Videos (courtesy of flotrack.com)

•CCS girls track and field championships: SLV's Johnson edges Aptos' Ferrante for 1,600 title (NEW)
• CCS TRACK He's finding his best field Top sport for Spencer isn't football

• NCS TRACK Carondelet sophomore hits the height Adrienne Johnson's 5-10 ties best state mark in high jump

•Spencer flies to 2 CCS titles

•Spencer leads locals at CCS boys track meet

•Mt. Pleasant's Thomas dominates at CCS

•Surprenant undeterred by wrist cast at CCS

•Jesuit High School clocks fast times in Masters Meet

•CCS boys track and field championships: Santa Cruz's Sanders, Aptos' Hunt advance

•Locals shine at CCS track meet

•CCS track and field championships: Aptos sends four to state meet, NMC gets one

•Prep Track: Drake's Cunnington vaults way to state meet

Pick the State Meet Qualifiers from NCS

Pick your top 4 for both girls and boys in the comment box below.

Event 17  Girls 3200 Meter Run
===============================================================================
Saturday 5/26/2007 - 3:38 PM
Sponsor: Les Schwab Tires
Top Four Qualify to State
National H.S:   9:48.59  5/24/1996   Kim Mortensen (Thousand Oaks, CA)        
 State Meet:   9:52.80  6/1/1996    Kim Mortensen (Thousand Oaks)            
    NCS MoC:  10:06.30  1978        Cheri Williams, Livermore HS             
          Name                        Year School                 Seed     Finals
===============================================================================
 1     66 sumpter, sarah                11 Healdsbrg/nc       11:21.13
 2    572 George, Diana                 11 Livermore/nc       11:23.19
 3     26 taylor, jacque                10 Casa Grnd/nc       11:24.74
 4    431 Raymond, Beth                 12 Washngtn/nc        11:32.75
 5    620 Houser, Kellie                11 Carondelt/nc       11:33.36
 6    621 Orders, Grace                  9 Campolndo/nc       11:36.15
 7    354 Santisteban, Kelsey            9 Castro Vy/nc       11:36.23
 8    618 Gregg, Abigail                11 Livermore/nc       11:42.32
 9    622 Smidebush, Anna               12 Concord/nc         11:43.81
10    429 Mitchel, Rachel               11 American/nc        11:45.80
11    355 Wummer, Elise                 10 Castro Vy/nc       11:46.30
12    427 Kearney, Samantha             12 Arroyo/nc          11:49.57
13    571 Smith, Rosie                  11 Cllg Prk/nc        11:51.04
14    430 Crinigan, Catherine           11 Irvington/nc       11:52.60
15    619 McVay, Elaine                  9 Calfrnia/nc        11:52.73
16    168 Davis, Michelle               12 San Rafl/nc        11:52.85
17    428 Spees, Kaitlyn                 9 B. O'Dowd/Nc       11:55.12
18    258 Furlong, Cecilia              12 Sn Frncsc/nc       11:55.71
19    171 Ripp, Kelsey                  12 San Rafl/nc        11:55.97
20    163 Schmitt, Caitlin              10 Redwood/nc         11:58.19
21     73 DiRado, Sarah                 11 Mra Crlo/nc        11:58.61
22     86 Fisher, Natalee               12 Marin Cth/nc       12:05.88
23    287 O'Connor, Morgan              12 Sn Frncsc/nc       12:19.70
24    286 de Souza, Alysha              12 Crystl Sp/nc       12:31.08

Event 18  Boys 3200 Meter Run
===============================================================================
Saturday 5/26/2007 - 3:55 PM
Sponsor: Les Schwab Tires
Top Four Qualify to State
National H.S:  8:41.10  5/13/2000   Dathan Ritzenhein (Rockford, MI)          
 State Meet:  8:44.9h  6/7/1975    Eric Hulst (Laguna Beach)                 
    NCS MoC:  8:58.50  1979        Rob Wentworth, Livermore HS               
          Name                        Year School                 Seed     Finals
===============================================================================
 1    627 Beach, Nate                   12 Acalanes/nc         9:24.52
 2    625 Landrum, Wyatt                11 Liberty/nc          9:26.84
 3    125 lockert, sterling             11 Petaluma/nc         9:36.10
 4    108 Olson, Erik                   10 Novato/nc           9:38.23
 5    624 Kanzaria, Bhavik              12 Monte Vst/nc        9:39.45
 6    623 Summers, Alex                 10 Granada/nc          9:40.08
 7    134 yungert, cole                 12 Petaluma/nc         9:41.38
 8    157 Kissin, Peter                 11 Redwood/nc          9:41.85
 9    628 Pulford, Robert               11 Campolndo/nc        9:41.94
10    626 Johnson, Eric                 12 DeLaSalle/nc        9:45.06
11    116 felipe, brandon               11 Petaluma/nc         9:46.31
12    289 Thomas, Skyler                11 Mendocino/nc        9:47.49
13     83 Williams, Grant               11 Mra Crlo/nc         9:47.67
14    629 Drosky, Greg                  12 Las Lomas/nc        9:47.90
15    121 griepenburg, bjorn            12 Petaluma/nc         9:48.55
16    288 Iglehart, Steve               11 Branson/ nc         9:51.49
17    424 Leng, Jack                    12 Castro Vy/nc        9:53.84
18    290 Ho, Victor                    12 Chinese Chrst/nc    9:54.88
19    421 Duffy, Matt                   12 St Mary's/nc        9:58.92
20    426 Synder, Austin                11 Berkeley/nc        10:00.57
21    423 Miller, Martin                12 Arroyo/nc          10:07.77
22    348 Borjon, Augie                 12 Newark M/Nc        10:08.09
23    425 Rich, Ben                     10 Washngtn/nc        10:08.30
24    422 Maxwell, Dan                  10 St Mary's/nc       10:08.37 

More newspaper articles as we head in Section Championships

Castro Valley junior surpasses father's footsteps

Seven Warriors qualify for Meet of Champions (high jump picture alone is worth a peek)

Eight track Dragons reach MOC after NCS Area efforts (Sonoma Valley High School)

Three Braves triumph at NCS track and field championships (Justin Siena HS)

Lawson clears yet another hurdle (St. Mary's Berkeley)

Castro Valley deposes Logan

Weiler, Quirke out to defend their titles at CCS track meet

Sizzling into finals (CCS athletes)

On top of her game (Tracy HS pole vaulter)

NCS and CCS Performance List and web page change alert

You can view all the NCS marks for Friday and Saturday (3200 and several field events) at the following link:
•NCS/Les Schwab Tires Meet of Champions Entries (tentative pending errors)

•CCS Entries and all marks from Semi-Finals

For those of you that visit Jim Crowhurst's page at the Press Democrat, the link to all his great stats have changed from www.pressdemocrat.com/running to www.northbay.com/running/

Anybody want to throw out any predictions for the NCS MOC??

Tons of Newspaper Coverage from this past weekend

•Davis Enterprise article

• CCS TRACK AND FIELD Spencer wins 3 events on hot Gilroy afternoon

• NCS TRACK AND FIELD Few surprises among best of the Bayshore

•Miller clears personal best, wins title (California Pole Vaulter, Justin Miller)

•Litwiller uses heat to win boys 1,600 meters

•Clear Lake's Green wins triple jump at Class A meet

•State meet steppingstone Roseville's Blair Wallingford seeks a Master-ful performance

•Preps Plus: Three Masters Meet athletes worth watching

•The heat is on (HollisterFreelance.com CCS Coverage)

•Running for respect at CCS

More to be posted as I find them. If you have any to share, please do so in the comments box below.

Northern California Section Results

•CCS Trials at Gilroy HS

•NCS Class A Meet at College of San Mateo (Complete results)

•NCS Redwood Empire at Rancho Cotate HS

•NCS Bayshore at Castro Valley HS

•Tri-Valley at Granada HS (qualifiers only)

•CIF-SJS Division I
•CIF-SJS Division II
•CIF-SJS Division III

More will be posted as I locate them.

Links to NCS and CCS meets this Saturday

Here are all the NCS Meets taking place today (Saturday) with the 24 advancers going on to the trials that take place next Friday at Cal Berkeley.

•NCS Class A Meet at College of San Mateo (top 3 advance to NCS MOC)

•Redwood Empire at Rancho Cotate HS (top 7 advance to NCS MOC)

•Bay Shore at Castro Valley HS (top 7 advance to NCS MOC)

•Tri-Valley at Granada HS (top 7 advance to NCS MOC)

As for CCS, everybody is at Gilroy HS with the advancers coming from the multiple heats there.

•CCS Semifinals at Gilroy HS (advancers noted for each event)