Girls track and field: Eagles deliver twin killing

Barry Faulkner

COSTA MESA - Estancia High girls track and field coach Joan

Carlisle’s already formidable task of telling identical twin sisters

Jasmine and Hanni Geider apart became a little more difficult Thursday.

Heading into the Eagles’ Pacific Coast League dual meet with visiting

Laguna Beach, Jasmine had been the one who always won the 100 meters.

Without fail.

Now, however, the mole on Hanni’s cheek might be the lone distinguishing

characteristic left between the two sophomores, after Hanni edged her

sister by 18-hundredths of a second Thursday to win in 13.44.

“We’ve been racing since the seventh grade and that was the first time

I’ve beaten her in the 100,” said Hanni, who wasted little time

exercising her newfound bragging rights.

“She just started laughing in my face,” said Jasmine, who, in the

fun-loving spirit which envelops their competitive sibling rivalry, took

her medicine with a smile.

“It’s all about next week,” Jasmine was quick to point out. “I’ve got to

practice a little harder, because I’ve got to beat her.”

Jasmine and Hanni finished second and third, respectively, in the 200.

Additionally, Hanni won the high jump (4-6) and Jasmine was second in the

long jump. Both were on the winning 400 relay.

Junior Sarah Marx doubled in the 200 and 400 and was also on both

victorious relays, to help the Eagles earn a 72-49 win, their first

dual-meet triumph this season.

The Eagles (1-2, 1-1 in league) also benefited from sweeps in the 200,

400 and 3,200, with the dominant distance performance clinching the team

triumph.

Junior Liz Huipe won the 3,200 (12:22) and the 1,600 (5:46.49), while

Sami diGirolamo topped the field in the long jump (14-4)to round out the

Eagles’ individual winners.

Brittany Hanson joined Marx and both Geiders on the victorious 400 relay

quartet (54.65), while Lindsay Freeman, Carmen McNeil and Vanessa Stevens

preceded Marx on the winning 1,600 relay (4:51.5).

Marx went 28.16 to best Jasmine (28.17) and Hanni (28.43) as all three

leaned into the finish of the near-dead heat.

diGirolamo’s long jump of 14-4 bettered Jasmine by two inches.

Stevens was also second in the 400 and third in the 800, while Violetta

Vega and Diana Alderete were second and third in both the shot put and

discus throw.

McNeil’s third-place effort rounded out the Estancia sweep in the 400,

while Janet Cahuantzi and Maria Arroyo followed Huipe in the 3,200.