High School track: Adams establishes career marks at Mt. Sac Relays
WALNUT — Clara Adams’ assault on the county record books continued Saturday as she rewrote her own track and field record in the 400 meters, lowering her mark to 54.07 seconds at the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut.
A fourth place podium finisher last season as a freshman in the 400 at the State Championships, the North Salinas sprinter finished third overall, moving her to No. 4 in the state.
The North Salinas school record holder in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 meters, Adams came back 60 minutes later and blistered the 200 into a headwind in a career best 24.03.
The reigning Central Coast Section champion in the 200, Adams has set a personal best in the event in back-to-back meets, running 24.19 last week at Arcadia.
Adams is No. 2 all-time in the county in the 200 behind 2000 Monterey graduate Sani Roseby, who ran 23.53 in 1999. Roseby went on to qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 hurdles in 2004 and the 100 meters in 2008.
Top 8 Meet
Regarded as a prelim to what might be in store in five weeks at the Central Coast Section finals was in display at Los Gatos, with several county athletes earning podium finishes at the Top 8 Meet.
Among them was Carmel distance ace Mack Aldi, who ran a career best 1:52.74 in the 800 to finish second. A state meet qualifier last spring, the mark is under the state qualifying standard of 1:53.64.
On the heels of winning four events in a dual meet Wednesday, Palma hurdler Ozzy Godoy ran a career best 14.99 in the 110 high hurdles to place third overall, then clocked 39.09 in the 300 intermediate hurdles later in the meet to place second.
Palma’s Elsie Sargenti took third in the 100 hurdles, blistering the race in 15.21 seconds. She was also on the school’s fourth place 400 relay team that included Adalyn Jefferson, Alison Guerra and Brooke Iverson (49.51).
North County’s Nadia Anastacio, a CCS finalist last year in the 400, took third Saturday with a mark of 57.47, while Alvarez’s Angela Ayozie uncorked the discus a career best 130-3 to place fifth. Salinas’ Emma Beck placed sixth in the long jump at 17-3, while Bella Ortega of Carmel took fourth in the pole vault, clearing 11-feet.
