1 week Ago By Kenny Cress [email protected]
The host Righetti boys and girls varsity track and field squads both won a team title with plenty to spare at the Santa Maria City Classic that took place at Righetti Saturday. Righetti senior Amaya Uvalle scored a distance double, with wins in the 1,600 and 800. She also ran a leg for the winning Righetti girls 4x8 and 4x4 relay teams, completing a four-for-four day as the Warriors took the team championship with 114.
5 points. Santa Maria was second in the five-team field with 59.5.
Pioneer Valley (47), Orcutt Academy (20) and St. Joseph (16 followed). Pioneer Valley took the girls and boys unified team titles.
The PV boys scored 32 points. Santa Maria scored six. The Pioneer Valley girls, the only unified girls team that competed Saturday, scored 26 points.
Righetti senior Ryan Ortiz beat his prior best of five feet, eight inches by plenty en route to winning the boys high jump at a meet record of 6-0. Ortiz also won the long jump at 19.25 en route to leading Righetti to the meet title.
The Warriors scored 82.5 points to runner-up Santa Maria's 58. Pioneer Valley (52 points), Orcutt Academy (42.
5) and St. Joseph (20) followed in the five-team field. The weather Saturday was unusually mild for a Santa Maria City Classic meet, with little wind.
Several varsity meets records fell, and four meet records in the first four varsity events - the girls 4x1 relay and open 1,600, and the boys 4x1 relay and open 1,600 - went down. Uvalle, who broke her own 1,600 school record with a 5:12 at the West Coast Relays, cruised to a runaway win in a meet record 5:29.39 Saturday to start her four-for-four day.
The Righetti senior said after the race that she ran conservatively in the 1,600 since, "I have three events left." Uvalle made it to the 1,600 final in the Central Section meet last year and finished 11th. "The 1,600 is my best event," she said.
"I would like to run at the collegiate level. I've been talking to some schools. I haven't committed to anyone yet.
" In the first two boys varsity events, the Pioneer Valley 4x1 relay team of Isaac Rivera, Mauricio Bribiesca, Jayden ramos and Miguel Ramirez won in a meet record of 44.30. Ashton Andreadakis of Orcutt Academy took down the boys 1,600 meet record, winning in 4:36.
44. Uvalle ran the second leg for the winning 4x8 relay team. Makenna Emerson ran the first leg, Xochitl Rubalcava gave the Warrriors a big third leg, and Raegan Collins anchored.
Castelli led off for the Righetti 4x4 relay squad. Leya Pankratz ran the second leg, Uvalle ran the third nd Denton anchored. Ortiz said the support he got from others boosted him to his meet record in the boys high jump.
"Definitely the biggest thing for me was when everyone was clapping for me," said Ortiz. "That hyped me up. "I had plenty of clearance over the bar (on the way up).
My steps were really on. My coaches really helped me prepare." The Righetti girls 4x1 relay team of Summer Wasylychyn, Alessandra Castelli, Teagan Daniels and Maggie Denton set a meet record 50.
64 in the first varsity event. "That time is our season best," said Denton. "All of the handoffs were good.
" Daniels said, "Our handoffs were good, and I think that was the biggest factor in our getting the meet record." Santa Maria sophomore Erikson Vasquez won the boys unified shot put with a personal best 14 feet, 10.5 inches.
He also competed in the boys unified 100. "I like both of them," Vasquez replied when asked which event he liked best. Before she ran in the 4x4 relay, Pankratz ran an impressive 1:00.
48 in winning the open girls 400. The Warriors also got open events wins from Daniels in the pole vault and Gigi Tosches in the 3,200. Besides Ortiz, the Righetti boys got wins from its 4x4 relay team of David Rosas, Luis Magana, Nery Saguilan and Andres Perez, and Christian Samaniego in the discus.
St. Joseph's Rylee Fleming scored a varsity sprint double, winning the 100 in 12.8 and the 200 in 26.
48. Santa Maria senior Maria Navarro won the 100 and 300 hurdles races, and Pioneer Valley's Crystal Ortiz (shot put and discus), and Sophie Juarez (high jump and triple jump) scored field event doubles. Sebastian Arredondo of Santa Maria took the boys 110 and 300 hurdles races.
Santa Maria's Heriberto Lopez-Valerio broke his own 800 meet record with a win in 2:02.92. Lopez-Valerio met the qualifying standard for the CIF Central Section divisional meet.
For a complete list of event winners, see the list..
