Girls track and field: CdM dominates Mesa

Tony Altobelli

CORONA DEL MAR - The brooms were out in force for Corona del Mar

High’s girls track and field team in Wednesday’s 99-36 Pacific Coast

League dual meet win over visiting Costa Mesa.

The Sea Kings (8-0, 4-0 in league) took the top-three spots in six

different events, while going 1-2 in two additional events.

“The girls are racing exactly as planned heading in to the PCL

preliminaries and finals,” CdM Coach Bill Sumner said. “You’ve got your

good days and bad days. We’ve been lucky enough to have our good days at

the right times this year.”

Leading the CdM attack was Kelly Halley, Liz Morse and Jaycee Mahler,

each winning two events.

Halley took the 100-meter run (13.1) and the triple jump (31-8 1/2), Liz

Morse took both the 200 (25.6) and 400 (59.4) and Mahler was victorious

in both the 100 (17.4) and 300 (49.1) low hurdles.

For Mesa (2-2 in league), freshman Sharon Day won both the high jump

(5-6) and long jump (19-9), while taking second in the 400 (1:01.9).

“Her mark in the high jump is a new freshman school record,” Coach John

Carney said. “She was really impressive today. You guys are gonna be

writing about her a lot in the upcoming years.”

Another freshman, Beverly Aina, won the shot put (30-11), while senior Lisa Weeks was a winner in the discus (95-7 1/2).

But it was too much CdM as Jenny Cummins, Diana Hossfeld, Season Meservey

and Krisserin Canary also posted first-place marks.

Cummins won the 800 (2:24.6), Hossfeld took the 1,600 (5:19.6), Meservey

was a winner in the 3,200 (11:59.3) and Canary was a strong winner with a

personal best in the pole vault (10-0).

Next up for both schools is the PCL preliminaries and finals, both set

for Irvine High. The prelims take place Tuesday at 2 p.m., while the

finals begin at 2:45 p.m.