By Pete Borello

Photo by Monique Schoenfeld, Town Crier

Around The Track

n convincing fashion, the Mountain View High girls track and field team last Thursday capped off its second straight undefeated league season.

The host Spartans (5-0) whipped Santa Clara 104-23 in an SCVAL El Camino Division meet at Foothill College.

“We had so many athletes post season and personal bests that we lost count,” Mountain View coach Sam Read said. “Emilie Doolittle posted a personal best in only her second outing this season in the mile and Dawn Maxey has continued to amaze us by improving her marks in all three of her events.”

Maxey, a freshman, won three individual events: the 100-meter hurdles (16.57 seconds), 100 dash (12.58) and triple jump (36-feet-1/2). She also ran the third leg of the Spartans’ winning 400 relay team (51.14).

Doolittle claimed the mile with a 5:51.45. Other individual winners for Mountain View included Laura Baldwin in the 400 (1:05.04), Adriana Palmer in the 300 hurdles (48.92), Rachel Walker in the 200 (27.95), Erin Hall in the two-mile (13:40.35), Cassandra Damm in the high jump (4-10) and Linda Ansa in the long jump (16-10).

“All in all, it was a fantastic day and the perfect build up to the league championships (starting April 30),” Read said.

The Mountain View boys, on the other hand, had a less than stellar day against Santa Clara. The Spartans (1-4) lost 85-42, winning only four events in the process.

Richard Turner had a hand in all four wins. Individually, he captured the 400 (52.85) and long jump (19-6) and was also part of the Spartans’ triumphant 400 (45.27) and mile (3:50.08) relay teams.

Eagles break even

Los Altos split its SCVAL De Anza Division meet at Wilcox last Thursday, with the boys winning 85-42 and the girls losing 84-43.

The Los Altos boys (4-2) were paced by Aaron Kaye and Mark Horiuchi, who won two events apiece. Kaye placed first in the mile (4:43.8) and two-mile (10:17), while Horiuchi claimed the 110 hurdles (16.7) and 200 (24.1).

Other individual winners for the Eagles were Justin Greco in the 400 (56.1), Joe Toney in the 300 hurdles (40.9), Zach Keats in the shot put (41-1), William Segua in the discus (110-10) and Aijiro Uesugi in the long jump (38-2). The 400 relay team (46.2) also came out on top.

The Los Altos girls (1-5) came away with just three wins: Allison Miller in the 100 hurdles (16.5), Heather Phillippe in the 300 hurdles (50.06) and the mile relay team (4:38.1).

Fernandez leads SF

Joey Fernandez had his most dominating performance of the season on April 11 in St. Francis’ 74-62 win at Serra.

The junior won four events at the West Catholic Athletic League meet: the 100 (11.54); 200 (23.48); long jump (21-1/2) and triple jump (42-11 1/2).

Teammate Ian Kenworthy, a senior, captured both the 110 hurdles (14.7) and 300 hurdles (40.1).

Other St. Francis winners included Eric Chavez in the two-mile (9:56.5), Chris Chisam in the discus (153-5 1/2), Brad Libuit in the high jump (6-4) and Joe Makley in the pole vault (13-6).